Links 08/07/2008: GNU/Linux Reaches More Stores; OpenMoko Sells Everything in Stock
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-08 21:27:04 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-08 21:27:04 UTC
Brazil
- Linux in the Stores
Linux hardware is finally starting to make its debut in consumer stores. Here in Brazil, in the store Saraiva, I noticed two KDE 3-based laptops, both apparently built upon some version of Kubuntu; one wasn't that customized and had the normal bar and K menu at the bottom, and the other one was so customized at first I thought it was Vista with the taskbar put on the side!
- Review: GoblinX 2.7 Micro Edition
GoblinX is a Slackware-based Linux distribution which comes in live CD format, and is developed and maintained in Brazil by Flavio de Oliveira, aka Grobsch.
Ubuntu
- Ubuntu At Best Buy?
- The “Ubuntu Equals Linux” Paradox
Now, the reason that new users are using Linux is in part to the fact that Ubuntu users, or LoCo teams, are actively spreading Linux to new users. Notice that there are no other distributions that are spreading Linux like Ubuntu.
Devices
GNU/Linux
- Is it time for Open Source to grow up?
- Debian Project News - July 7th, 2008
16 August 2008 will mark the 15th birthday of the Debian project since its first announcement by founder Ian Murdock on comp.os.linux.development on 16 August 1993. A coordination page for local Debian User Groups organizing and announcing birthday events is already available at the Debian Wiki.
- Pardus 2008 review
Pardus 2008 is everything I could of asked for it looks good, plays all my multimedia, it’s super-fast/stable and it’s so easy even a Mac OS X user could easily adapt to it. Pardus has taken over my linux partition at the moment I consider it the best distribution available at this time; I won’t switch distribution anytime soon perhaps I may use Pclinuxos 2008 for reviewing purposes but it’ll be hard to top pardus 2008.
- Evolution, Linux, and Gentoo
I'll start at the end by telling you that I'll finish this with a discussion of my “Distro of Choice”, Gentoo. But before we get there .....
It royally annoys me when people say that Linux is too hard to learn! Admittedly, Linux is probably insurmountable for some people, in the same manner that learning Psychology would be insurmountable for me. Not everyone has an interest or talent in computers and their software. However, the statement that began this paragraph has been used to categorize computer users in general. I don't have a particularly strong computer background, but I do have an avid interest in them, so I figure that if I can do it, anyone with a modicum of talent and interest in computers can learn Linux if they want to.
- RHEL and SOA speed time to market, slash costs at D&B
DEs
F/OSS
Leftovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Attacks on Techrights Make Techrights Stronger and Attract More Whistleblowers to Techrights
- The harder they attack us, the more productive we become
- An American War on GNU/Linux, Software Freedom, and British Investigative, Science-Based Reporting - Part III - Very Strong Legal Basis for an Appeal
- The case is now being escalated to a Foreign Secretary and former Deputy Prime Minister
- No Slop Found in RSS Feeds, Only in Google News
- No slopfarm will survive for very long, certainly it'll go bust as soon as readers (if it had any) know what it is
- What the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and Action Fraud UK Have in Common
- Don't let London become the world's "crime capital"
- Dr. Andy Farnell on How GAFAM, NVIDIA and Others Lie to People Via the Sponsored Media to Prop Up Lies Under the Guise of "AI"
- Lots of key aspects are covered
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- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 09, 2026
- IRC logs for Monday, March 09, 2026
- The Register MS Has Just Taken Money From Google (Where the Former Chief Editor Now Works) for Femmewashing and Ponzi Scheme Promotion
- now The Register MS not only promotes a Ponzi scheme but also bags money to pretend Google respects women
- People at IBM Are Still Smart Enough to Understand What's Really Going on
- "I would never refer someone to work at IBM that I liked! I hope all of you have reviewed IBM on Glassdoor."
- European Patent Office (EPO) to "Eventually Eliminate the Tasks Performed by Formalities Officers"; EPO Run by People Without Experience in Patents
- full paper
- RMS is 73 Next Week
- Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) turns 73 exactly 7 days from now
- Iran & FSFE: blackmailing women, from football to the French Government (CNIL)
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Police investigations, lawsuits & Debian leader election candidate shortage
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Richard Stallman (RMS) Has Defeated Cancel Culture, a Mostly American Phenomenon
- RMS is talking now
- Links 09/03/2026: Many Security Breaches and a Pandemic of Censorship
- Links for the day
- People Who Work or Worked at IBM Hate It
- bluewashing is only the first step
- Richard Stallman (RMS) Talks in 30 Minutes, Next Stop Bern (Last Stop)
- We assume he'll travel back to Boston after that
- IBM's Fedora as a Booster of Slop Disguised as Code or Computer Programs
- Maybe we should also stop seeing a doctor and instead ask chatbots about symptoms?
- Richard Stallman (RMS) Talk Five Hours From Now
- there is growing recognition for what he really did for everybody
- EPO Strike 10 Days From Now, Planning Assembly Tomorrow, Last Couple of Strikes Had High Participation Rates (1,500-1,600 Staff Went on Strike)
- The next strike is in 10 days' time and then there will be another strike
- Links 09/03/2026: GAFAM Outsourcing, "MAGA Political Meddling" in EU, Indonesia Bans Social Control Media for Children Under 16
- Links for the day
- Using Slop (and Slop in Articles) to Attack Copyleft 'on Budget'
- This article is pure BS from an anti-GPL and anti-RMS 'activist'
- Why The Register MS Sold Out to Microsoft: They're Losing Lots of Money, The Register MS is Bleeding to Death, Based on Its Own Financial Records
- With over 6 million pounds in debt (nearly 10 million US dollars) we guess it's likely some other company will take over the site (if it deems it worthwhile)
- Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 7 Out of 200: Like With the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Misuse of UK-GDPR to Try to Hide Embarrassing Facts
- They do and say really bad things, then allege it's a "privacy violation" to mention those things
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 08, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, March 08, 2026
- Gemini Links 09/03/2026: Exponentials and Tailscale
- Links for the day
- Sloppyleft
- Article by Alexandre Oliva
- Hard to Replace 'Human Touch'
- The reason many people insist on using GNU
- Richard Stallman Gives Talk in 20 Hours at Ostschweizer Fachhochschule Campus in Rapperswil-Jona
- The talk is in English
- The Slop Companies Gamble at Our Economy's Expense and They Know It's a Losing Bet (So It's a de Facto Robbery)
- The crash of this bubble isn't just inevitable, it's already happening and receding sporadically because of false announcements about money that does not actually exist (to "buy time")
- Suppressing Speech by Blackmail, the Iran Story
- When Debian wanted to stage a seemingly legitimate election it needed to have more than one candidate running; so eventually the female partner of a geek rose to the challenge (had no coding skills at all, no technical history in Debian) and lost to the "incumbent German"
- Too Focused on Buzzwords the Media is Paid to Saturate the Collective Mind With
- Just because companies do really bad things in the digital realm does not imply "AI" or follow from "AI"
- Discrimination and Prejudice Against Female Journalists
- we can shame people who attack a reporter on the grounds of gender
- An American War on GNU/Linux, Software Freedom, and British Investigative, Science-Based Reporting - Part II - Trying to Put People in Prison for Committing the Act of Journalism
- This is abuse of process
- Attack on Copyright and Copyleft by Code Conversion Is Nothing New, It Predates Slop (Code Produced by LLMs) by Several Decades
- Even back in the 90s many people converted programs from one language to another. That could invalidate copyleft (and copyright), which already existed
- Almost a Slopless Weekend for "Linux"
- Let's hope slop will come to an end or sites will cease linking to slop
- Insiders Explain Why IBM is Dying and the Inherent Culture Problem
- There are many ways to shave this IBM cat
- Links 08/03/2026: Microsoft Lost $400 Million on "Project Blackbird" and Half the States Sue Over Illegal Tariffs
- Links for the day
- Links 08/03/2026: Cisco Holes Again and "Blatant Problem With OpenAI That Endangers Kids"
- Links for the day
- Activism/Journalism in Our Blood
- one must fight for one's principles
- Gemini Protocol in Its Prime
- What's particularly neat about Gemini Protocol is that it's fast and cheap
- Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 6 Out of 200: Intentionally Misnaming Women, People Who Offered to Testify That They Too Had Been Subjected to Similar Abuse
- Today it is International Women's Day
- Even Fedora Leadership Cannot Figure Out the Microsoft Kill Switch/Back Door, 'Secure' Boot
- It does not actually enhance security
- Bruce Perens: Richard Stallman "Has Achieved His Goal"
- Stallman's next talk is tomorrow
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 07, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, March 07, 2026
Comments
The Unix Geek
2008-07-28 08:16:25
The Unix Geek
Meh
2008-07-28 10:06:40
LOL
Roy Schestowitz
2008-07-28 10:16:24
Microsoft is Zune is Nearly Dead, Microsoft Lies
Zune Guy Rant Against Microsoft and Zune no Longer Available
"We didn’t want to post MSZuneFan’s “last video” because of the hard language but we’re more than happy to report it now has been removed from YouTube."
http://www.pmptoday.com/2008/07/26/zune-guy-rant-against-microsoft-and-zune-no-longer-available/
Zune Guy calls Microsoft 'liars,' says Zune situation is 'f***ing bulls**t'
"You've probably heard by now that the infamous Zune Guy ("Microsoft Zune") was so disappointed with Microsoft that he's elected to have his ink removed in place of something more in line with his shifted priorities. In addition to the reconstructive work he's going to have, ZG claims that Microsoft actually lied to him about his free trip to the Redmond campus, which (as you might imagine) further tarnishes his image of the company. Unfortunately, according to reps from Microsoft we spoke with, the trip was never confirmed -- only discussed -- and ultimately canceled due to the very reasonable fear that it might lead a lot of "hyper-engaged users" to expect a trip of their own (though they did hook our man up with a free Zune and some related swag)."
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/zune-guy-calls-microsoft-liars-says-zune-situation-is-f-in/
Also see:
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure%20/2008/05/25/the-beginning-to-the-end-for-the-microsoft-zune/ The beginning of the end for the Microsoft Zune
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/%7Efreeculture/blog/2008/05/22/zuneral-this-saturday/ Zuneral this Saturday!
http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/hardware/10418052.html GameStop to Stop Zune Sales
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/09/zune-sales-still-in-the-toilet/ Zune Sales Still In the Toilet
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/microsoft-may-build-a-copyright-cop-into-every-zune/index.html?ref=technology Microsoft May Build a Copyright Cop Into Every Zune
A bit older: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6155200.html Microsoft says Zune executive will leave company