Links 29/05/2008: Migrations to GNU/Linux and More Success Stories
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-05-29 08:40:58 UTC
- Modified: 2008-05-29 08:40:58 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Linux server sales continue to grow
HP and IBM share the market lead in overall server sales
- Microsoft Exchange dumped for Linux-based clone
After conducting an evaluation of alternatives, the hospital decided not to upgrade to a newer version of Exchange. Instead, it went with a Linux-based Exchange clone that it felt could meet the needs of its 700 users without forcing them and IT to learn a whole new system.
- Ulteo Virtual Desktop: Letting Linux Do Windows
- Controlling desktop applications with six degrees of freedom
Six degrees of freedom (6DOF) devices allow for movement in three axes, tilt in two axes, and rotation in the third. Some of these devices look like small joysticks -- for example, the SpaceNavigator.
- Gaming With The Open-Source R500 Driver
From the release of Mesa 7.1 Release Candidate 1 to Multi-Pointer X being merged to master to the R500 3D milestone, it's been an exciting past 24 hours for the X.Org community.
- The Skinny on Linux for Thin Client Computing
"Linux makes sense in thin-client computing for a number of reasons. First, when you're cutting costs on the hardware and resources required for thin clients, you probably don't want to see savings eaten up by licensing costs for the [operating system]. Linux is free and now supports almost all of the user applications required in typical settings," said Jay Lyman, an analyst with The 451 Group.
- Configurable $6 65nm ARM9 chip runs Linux
- Report from Open Mind 2008
Earlier this month KDE Italia attended Open Mind 2008. A Free Software event organised by Roberto Dentice in San Giorgio near Naples. There were KDE talks and KDE demonstrations. Read on for the report.
- Can Seanodes' Linux solution replace pricey arrays?
Google
F/OSS
Rumours and Vapourware
Leftovers
- Information, Globalization and Democracy: The Utopian Moment?
- Private Copying Levy: Hardware Makers Ready For Europe-Wide ‘iPod Tax’?
- Five reasons to fire Ballmer
1) The Vista Technology Flop. Technically, Vista was crap.
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2) The Vista Business Failure: Microsoft has managed to sell junk before but this time it had set itself an impossible job.
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3) The Yahoo Fiasco: If Microsoft had pulled off the hostile takeover of Yahoo...
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4) The Fall of Microsoft Office. Remember when Microsoft was talking up how great the initial sales of Office 2007 were? A year later, in Microsoft's third quarter results, we see that Office's operating income has dropped from $3.4 billion, to $3.1 billion.
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5) Who doesn't love you baby? The stock market that's who. Today, Microsoft's stock is wobbling just over $28. The 52-week high was $37.50. What do you think will happen to Microsoft's stock when Bill officially retires? It won't be pretty.
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- No Olympics
- We really need to focus on real news
- Nobody Holds the GNOME Foundation Accountable (Not Even IRS), It's Governed by Lawyers, Not Geeks, and Headed by a Shaman Crank
- GNOME is a deeply oppressive institutions that eats its own
- [Meme] The 'Modern' Web and 'Linux' Foundation Reinforcing Monopolies and Cementing centralisation
- They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
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- This isn't a lack of foresight but planned obsolescence
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- Excuses like, "it's not ready yet" or "we'll fix it" won't pass muster
- "An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs"
- The lesson of this story is, if you do evil things, bad things will come your way. So don't do evil things.
- When Wikileaks Was Still Primarily a Wiki
- less than 14 years ago the international media based its war journalism on what Wikileaks had published
- The Free Software Foundation Speaks Out Against Microsoft
- the problem is bigger than Microsoft and in the long run - seeing Microsoft's demise - we'll need to emphasise Software Freedom
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- a slur that comes from Microsoft's friends at IBM
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- If even one media outlet told you in 2010 that Microsoft would fall from 100% (of Web requests) to about 1 in 8 Web requests, you'd probably struggle to believe it
- Microsoft Windows Became Rare in Antarctica
- Antarctica's Web stats still near 0% for Windows
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- Techrights Statement on YouTube
- YouTube is a dying platform
- [Video] Julian Assange on the Right to Know
- Publishing facts is spun as "espionage" by the US government and "treason" by the Russian government, to give two notable examples
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Comments
Uncle_Sam
2008-05-29 11:49:11
WinFS, MinilalaWinblowSuperKernel... out the door !!
OMFG !! LOL !!!!
Ubuntu is going to slaughter Winblows even before it ever comes out.
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2008-05-29 12:18:50
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-29 12:22:39
pingpong
2008-05-29 13:41:55
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-29 13:46:05
peace
2008-05-29 13:56:59
They are very helpful there any questions you have they can help you! Which is why I suggested freenode!
Roy Schestowitz
2008-05-29 16:03:38