Links 18/06/2008: OpenMoko Comes Soon, Mandriva Linux 2009 in the Making
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-06-18 20:11:23 UTC
- Modified: 2008-06-18 20:11:23 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Kernel space: Interview with Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton is well-known in the kernel community for doing a wide variety of different tasks: maintaining the -mm tree for patches that may be on their way to the mainline, reviewing lots of patches, giving presentations about working with the community, and, in general, handling lots of important and visible kernel development chores.
- New Nvidia Linux Drivers Bring Support for Kernel 2.6.26
- Technology Alignment Released Pioneer Linux 3.2
- Aladdin HASP SRM Adds Linux Support
- Bridging the African digital divide - with a ‘toaster’
“We were getting a lot of people excited about it,” Hudson says. But when new fans asked how to get their hands on the newest version of Linux, the answer was always the same: Download it. “We’d see their shoulders slump,” he says. “We had a clear message, we were getting out there and talking to people, but we were clearly falling short.”
- Ubuntu Compared to Other Linux Distributions
- Adventures with open source apps on Linux - Part 2
- Red Hat trains partners up with services certification
Embedded/Mobile
Mandriva
- 2009.0 Development
- Mandriva Linux 2009 plans announced
Mandriva Linux 2009 comes a step closer to reality today with the unveiling of the release schedule and the technical specifications. All this information can be found on the Mandriva Linux 2009 Development page on the Mandriva Wiki. The schedule includes two alphas, two betas, and two release candidates, prior to the final release in early October 2008. The first alpha release is scheduled for June 25th - just a week away.
- Mandriva and EEE PC, 2009.0 specs
F/OSS and Openness
Firefox 3 Off to a Beautiful Flight
Security
Microsoft
Leftovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Unlike GAFAM, Free Software Serves You, It Does Not Serve Governments and MElons (Overlapping Forces)
- Tired of oligarchy controlling your life through gadgets and "apps"?
- When It Comes to Social Control Media, Linus Torvalds is Channeling Techrights
- GAFAM workers know exactly who to aim at
- New EPO Paper: Promoting (Rewarding) People Who Grant Many Illegal European Patents to Make More Money (at Europeans' Expense) While Patent Courts in the EU Are Themselves Illegal
- now the coup is sort of complete and even the "courts" are part of the corruption
- Slopwatch: Carnival of LLM Slop and FUD Spewed by Bots, Pasted in by MaKenna Hensley and Day
- Welcome to the Web in 2025. Articles about "Linux", "Security", and the Web (e.g. "Firefox") are fake.
- Links 07/02/2025: Amazon’s Stock Collapses and US Government Being Dismantled (Still)
- Links for the day
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- Gemini Links 08/02/2025: "Thought Leaders" and Returns to Gemini Protocol
- Links for the day
- Links 08/02/2025: MElon Coup, Mass Layoffs at Facebook, and PlayStation Network Down
- Links for the day
- On Wars Against Founders
- We need to insist that founders remain
- Links 08/02/2025: News Corp Admits Traffic Declines, Wildlife Trafficking Tackled
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 08/02/2025: Lamp and Notions
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 07, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, February 07, 2025
- Gemini Links 07/02/2025: Mid-level Details and Simple Code
- Links for the day
- Links 07/02/2025: US 'Demolition Crew', e-ID Loopholes, and Sanctions
- Links for the day
- Professor Eben Moglen on How Social Control Media Metabolises Humans and Constrains Freedom of Thought
- Nothing of value would be lost if all these data-harvesting giants (profiling people) vanished overnight
- Social Control Media is Narcissism
- Nowadays there's a lot more literature and even press coverage explaining the harms of Social Control Media
- Debian Left Twitter (MElon "X"), We Think the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Should Do the Same
- What would the FSF really lose if it stopped posting there?
- statCounter Sees GNU/Linux Share Doubling in China Over the Past Year
- It'll be interesting to see what data in the coming months shows
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, February 06, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, February 06, 2025
- Richard Stallman (RMS) Confirms Next Week's Talk in Europe
- He gave at least 2 talks in Europe last month
- Nationalism As A Service (NaaS) by Microsoft Azure, Gutting the US Government for Profit
- Will Microsoft be receiving bailouts as a reward for all this?
- Rumours of IBM Layoffs Apparently Confirmed Yesterday, IBM Canada Consulting Impacted (as Rumoured)
- when IBM has layoffs we must also read it as Red Hat layoffs
- Tons of Anti-Linux 'Articles' Published by Bots (LLMs), Maybe Microsoft's
- Upon closer inspection, all this FUD turned out to be LLM garbage
- Gemini Links 06/02/2025: Voicemail Sucks and Night of Lights
- Links for the day
- Ubuntu Desktop Director of Engineering Has Only One Blog Post. It Promotes Microsoft Windows.
- Remember that even 15 years ago (more or less, maybe 16 years ago) Canonical appointed a a 'former' Microsoft manager (Spencer) to lead Ubuntu on the desktop
- Links 06/02/2025: YouTube Takedowns Out of Control, 'DOGE' Breaking Laws
- Links for the day
- IBM Red Hat on "era of cloud computing", pushing "hey hi" (AI) hype in Microsoft Azure
- LLM slop might actually be more benign than Microsoft promotion
- Corruption and Rule-Breaking Prevail at the European Patent Office (EPO), Europe's Second-Largest Institution
- The law does not really exist at the EPO; it can be perceived as merely a "recommendation"
- statCounter: More Countries Where Windows is Around 1% "Market Share" (People Have Moved to Android/Linux)
- in some nations Windows is already 1% or less
- 404 Media Says "Workers at NASA Told to Drop Everything to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites" But There's Also Accessibility in the Firing Line
- In the case of abandoning accessibility, everyone stands to be hurt and proprietary software can be brought in to replace standards
- When BetaNews Writes Real Articles About "Linux" They Promote Windows
- The Web is in a bad state. We need to at least try to correct this.
- Gemini Links 06/02/2025: Cynicism and "Real Magic on the C64"
- Links for the day
- Links 06/02/2025: New Sanctions, Layoffs, and Executive Orders
- Links for the day
- Distros and Desktop Environments, Devices
- GNU/Linux focused
- New Rumours of IBM Layoffs in 2025, IBM Consulting Still Struggles, Based on Management
- "Hey hi" (AI) has been a common excuse for business failure
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 05, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, February 05, 2025
Comments
PitaGuy
2008-06-19 08:01:03
Nothing new.