Links 30/06/2008: More GNU/Linux Laptops, Windows XP's End Marks Trouble
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-06-30 12:20:02 UTC
- Modified: 2008-06-30 12:20:02 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Hands on With ECS's G10IL Mini-laptop With 3G
ECS representatives said. Both the G-series and J-series come with options for a Linux OS from Linpus Technologies.
- Asustek to launch new Eee PCs with bigger keyboards
- MSI Wind Mini-desktop With Intel's Atom to Debut in July
Last month, Asustek revealed the Eee Box, a mini-desktop PC that has an Atom microprocessor, will come with either a Linux or Windows XP OS, and will begin selling in July for around US$300. The machine takes its name from the popular mini-laptop, Eee PC, by Asustek.
- Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 97
- Playing with Fluxbox
- from Windows to Ubuntu
But after the past couple of years as I got more into web development, I started to experience some pain as a WinXP user because it seems like most of the interesting web technologies are optimized for Linux or Mac users, and for Windows users there’s usually a short appendix in the doc that says “If you are unfortunate enough to use Windows, the following has been said to work…”
- How Linux Can Take The Marketshare Microsoft Throws Away
As an average PC user looking to buy a Mac, you would most likely be surprised by the high prices.
- Cognos Ships BI Software For IBM's System Z Mainframe
Cognos, which IBM acquired in January for $4.9 billion, is now shipping a version of its IBM Cognos 8 BI software for Linux running on IBM's System z10 mainframes.
- High Tower's SIEM strength lies in its simplicity
The product is delivered as an appliance that is Intel-based, includes a crypto accelerator in hardware (for high-volume event signing) and runs Linux under the hood.
- Beating Comcast's Sandvine On Linux With Iptables
- The FSF needs a new approach to advertising
Obviously that isn’t possible, so my suggestions are as follows:
* Answer posts relating to proprietary software on UbuntuForums.org and LinuxQuestions.org, and talk to these people about the benefits of Free Software
* Create media, including videos, music, etc that people would enjoy listening to (that means this doesn’t count) that they would enjoy sharing with others
Releases
- Myah OS 3.0 Dragon [Released]
For all current fans of Myah OS and all those soon to be, we give you Myah OS 3.0 Dragon. Dragon is the code name for Myah OS built around the KDE 3 desktop. We chose KDE 3.5.9 since it's still considered the most stable and best supported version of KDE.
- Scientific Linux release 5.2 i386 and x86_64 has been released.
Scientific Linux 5.2 has been released in record time. We want to thank everyone who has contributed, tested, and given us feedback. Without your help this release couldn't have come out as quickly and smoothly as it has.
- Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r0 codename 'Viola' has been released
After a two-week delay, we proudly announce the immediate availability of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r0 codename 'Viola'. Parsix Viola brings several new features, contains a new kernel, updated software packages, updated documentation, improved installer system and several fixes for the reported defects.
- Finnix 92.0 Released
Finnix is a small, self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution for system administrators, based on Debian testing. Today marks the release of version 92.0 for the x86/AMD64, PowerPC, and UML/Xen platforms.
F/OSS
Microsoft
- Ghostly threat to Internet Explorer users
Microsoft certainly never imagined anything like this. A talk given behind closed doors at the Microsoft BlueHat Security Briefing revealed a huge security problem in Internet Explorer.
- Malware, Spam, and other Net Pests Rev Up
The number of malware detections has grown by almost half a million since the end of the year, jumping from 500,000 total detections to 900,000.
"I have a nasty feeling that the situation is getting worse, not better", says Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for the security vendor.
- Great job, great girl – but Microsoft just wasn’t enough for John Wood
- Windows XP: the beginning of the end
- Windows Could Use a Rush of Fresh Air
A MONOLITHIC operating system like Windows perpetuates an obsolete design. We don’t need to load up our machines with bloated layers we won’t use.
- Tevanian: Does Microsoft have the guts to slim down Windows?
Actually, Avie was referring to an atmosphere of desperation, as the Times calls it, just before Apple started the Mac OS X project. Microsoft, possibly, hasn't hit "rock bottom" yet, and therefore doesn't feel a need to build something from scratch.
Personally, I thought "Windows 7" was going to be a leaner, less-backward-compatible build, but I was wrong (as I frequently am): "Our approach with Windows 7 is to build off the same core architecture as Windows Vista," said Bill Veghte, a Microsoft VP. Hello, Windows Me 2.0.
- Yahoo Was Right to Turn Down Microsoft Offer
Despite what the market may suggest, Yahoo was wise to reject the Microsoft offer. Microsoft's interest in Yahoo was, for the most part, to acquire its market share in search and online advertising - a segment currently dominated by Google.
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Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo is akin to taking the drumstick, your favorite piece of the chicken, and then throwing out the rest because it's not really tasty to you. You're interested only in ensuring that your archrival doesn't get the drumstick before you do.
- Battle of egos at Yahoo, Microsoft
- Gates Says Yahoo Deal 'not Likely'
- How Microsoft plans to teach us some manners
Professor Chris Johnson, from the computing science department of Glasgow University, said: "There are lots of devices that don't run Microsoft software these days, and just like that, a lot of devices wouldn't use digital manners.
"Unless Microsoft makes it in the interest of people to buy a device with this technology, nobody's going to bother buying things that use it. I can't see a huge marketplace for digital manners at the moment."
- Microsoft Introducing DRM Tool for 360
- Microsoft strong-arms sports fans: Olympic Games online coverage only for Vista users
Loyal XP users are not alone in their exclusion from NBC's online coverage, the partnership also excludes Mac users, as well those that do their web surfing from a phone.
- Ballmer Tells Seattle Times Microsoft Stock Has Been `Volatile'
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Microsoft Windows Falls to 19% in Congo, Only About 1 in 8 Windows Users (or 2-3% of Web Users) Are on Vista 11
- The estimated share of Vista 11 fell sharply this past month
- Twitter as X-Rated Hatred: Criticising Microsoft is Not OK, Calling for Beheadings (With Bounties on People's Heads) is OK
- Twitter automation missed 'hit job' advertising
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- Another Case Study Regarding Edge's Death
- people adopt Chrome and a lot more people use obscure browsers than adopt the latest Edge
- [Meme] A Question of Interests
- 'The Internet? We are not interested in it.' -Bill Gates, 1993
- In the Romanian Browser Market, Microsoft is the 2% (Edge Down to 2.3%)
- the Wintel era has ended
- Gemini Links 17/08/2024: Selfishness and Offline BBSing
- Links for the day
- Frans Pop & Debian Day 2024: 31 years of deception and modern slavery
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 16, 2024
- IRC logs for Friday, August 16, 2024
- Links 16/08/2024: YouTube Bans and Surveillance Expanded
- Links for the day
- We Were Right All Along and the Collaborators of Microsoft Helped Competition Crimes of Microsoft
- Once again vindicated regarding UEFI "secure boot"
- [Meme] The New Windows Slogan
- stat me up
- Addendum: Associate's Notes on Free Software as a Labour Issue and the Connectivity Swindles
- these are related issues/causes
- Microsofters Infiltrating Roles of Authority and Government Positions to Protect Microsoft and to FUD Microsoft's Competition
- friends of Microsofters who bully me and my wife
- Links 16/08/2024: UK Skills Deficit and Kim Dotcom to be Extradited to the US (for Doing the Same Stuff GAFAM Does)
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 16/08/2024: Overgeneralisation and Games
- Links for the day
- Russia's Yandex 5 Times Bigger Than Microsoft... in Ukraine
- They'd rather rely on the Kremlin than on Microsoft
- [Meme] Gemini is Different, So What?
- different, not worse
- Now It's "Official": Over 4,000 Known Gemini Capsules in Lupa
- For the first time ever
- Clown Computing
- Reprinted with permission from Dr. Andy Farnell
- [Meme] What Freedom Means to IBM
- Free labou
- Balancing Activism Against (or With) Basic Necessities and Daniel Cantarín on Our Collective Battle for Software Freedom Around the World
- "I'm VERY angry about lots of stuff happening here in Argentina, all of it shielded behind the word "freedom"."
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 15, 2024
- IRC logs for Thursday, August 15, 2024
- From 99% in 2012 to 27% in 2024: How Microsoft Lost Georgia
- What we're seeing is a migration from Windows to other platforms, notably GNU/Linux
- To Understand Cisco's Mass Layoffs Look at the Company's Soaring Debt (Same at Microsoft)
- Look what's happening to Intel - down almost 60% since the start of the year, 57% to be precise
- Windows Flying Low at 25%
- It's another all-time low
- [Meme] Long Texts You Never Bother Reading (Because Life is Too Short, Unlike Those Texts)
- The devil is in the terms of service
- Links 15/08/2024: Monkeypox Hysteria and Modern Homesteaders Living Off the Grid
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 15/08/2024: Confession of a Convention Game Master and Some Release nostalgia
- Links for the day
- Congratulations to Romania, Where Windows is Now "Minority Market Share" Platform
- Time will tell if GNU/Linux can pass 5% on the desktop/laptop "form factor" there
- Why It Matters That 4,000 Gemini Capsules Are Known to Lupa and Why Gemini Protocol Matters to Us
- I have no doubt Gemini Protocol will continue to expand because it solves a real problem
- Links 15/08/2024: Avast Surveillance Scandal Unsolved and Facebook Still Censors Terror Sympathisers
- Links for the day
- Daniel Cantarín's Response to Alexandre Oliva's Talk on Achieving Software Freedom in the Age of Platform Decay
- Soylent News caught up with the series
- 4,000 Gemini Capsules
- it's basically one capsule short of 4,000
- "Microsoft is a Sponsor of The New Stack."
- Many articles turn out to be just ads
- New Highs for Android in Russia, But It's Reportedly Working on Its Own Linux-Based Operating Systems (GAFAM-Free)
- statCounter isn't equipped to properly parse user agents or to keep up
- Upcoming Series: Terms of Service (TOS) Under the Microscope, FSF Party, GitHub Scandals, Clowns, and More
- Right now we have way more material than we have time to cover. But that's a good thing.
- Gemini Links 15/08/2024: Lies of Therapy and Web Applications
- Links for the day
- Software Freedom in Perspective - Part 5 - When Richard Stallman Came to Argentina
- It might seem a bit harsh, but a discussion at the end of this series will tie things together and explain why those things were said
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 14, 2024
- IRC logs for Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Comments
max stirner
2008-06-30 19:03:39
couple of days old, nonetheless hilarious
best wishes :)