Links 14/07/2008: New Version of Linux, Mandriva Reviews
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-14 15:40:32 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-14 15:41:34 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Linux 2.6.26 [Released]
- Exaile — versantile audio player for GNOME
- 10 Awesome Linux T-shirt
- 10 Iconic Linux Logos
- Early Fedora 10 Artwork
Since I did a look at Ubuntu’s early concept art and since I am usually very impressed by Fedora’s final art, I decided that it would make sense to take a look at what has appeared on the Fedora Art Team wiki. I have actually been waiting a few days to do this, since, as of just a few days ago, there were not enough submissions that I liked to talk about.
- Xfe Review - Wonderful File Manager
In my opinion, Xfe is just awesome. If you never tried it until now, you really should take it for a spin, no matter what desktop environment you are using. Themes will make it fit well in any of them, it's fast, it provides powerful enough features, it has a great clean and intuitive interface, and in my opinion it's the simplest to learn from all the file managers I tried up to date. A great piece by all means, which can surprisingly become the file manager of choice after one single try.
- Tux comes to Felton, California
It's one thing to to change someone over from Windows to Linux. That in itself is a gratifying experience. Then, you get your second defection from the chained-down world of Microsoft Windows, then the third...
- Alcatel-Lucent Adds Laptop Disk-Encryption Support
- Linux Thin Client:Considering the Network
Mandriva
F/OSS
Security
Recent Techrights' Posts
- At Least 23 Days of EPO Strikes
- Why does the media not deem this newsworthy?
- The Energy Crisis Will Likely Carry on and Kill the Slop Industry
- To the slop charlatans, "this is the end, my friend..."
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 44 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley 'Copypasta' Sunday (Copy-Paste, Add One Word, Change 'T' to 't')
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- Gemini Links 13/04/2026: Pronouns for an LLM, Fakecoins Promotion Piggybacking Iran, "Your Face is Now a Search Query"
- Links for the day
- Links 13/04/2026: Higher Costs Hurt Both Rich and Poor Country, a "Landslide Win to Oust Orban"
- Links for the day
- Tens of Thousands of Days of Strike at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, Nobody in the Media Has Mentioned It
- Since the "extraordinary general meeting"
- SPAM That Mentions "AI" 16 Times (in "Security" Clothing, But Selling Back Doors), a Paid Placement in The Register MS
- This will doom the reputation of the publication, The Register MS
- Links 13/04/2026: Impersonating ProPublica Reporter, More Attacks on the Press (Occupation With Little and No Compensation, Only High Risk)
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 12, 2026
- IRC logs for Sunday, April 12, 2026
- Gemini Links 13/04/2026: Freiburg, GUIX, and Announcing Satellite Antenna (SA)
- Links for the day
- Links 12/04/2026: Climate, Conflict, and Change in Hungaristan
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 12/04/2026: Passports, Science, and Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology
- Links for the day
- EPO on Strike This Past Friday (All Major Sites), Massive Strike Continues Tomorrow
- strikes have trebled, not trembled, compared to last month (in Munich)
- Links 12/04/2026: SLAPPs Against Thai Journalists Who Expose High-Level Corruption, Maharlika (Philippines/Marcos) Threatens to Lawyer Up Against GAFAM to Demand Censorship of Critics
- Links for the day
- Racism and IBM
- at IBM and Red Hat people who are hard-working and proficient are now being fired based on their ethnicity and nationality (or either)
- When Cruelty is the Point (American SLAPPs in London, the United Kingdom, Europe)
- Consider the following
- Resistance to SLAPPs in the UK: Coalition Growing
- thankfully awareness of SLAPPs in the UK is improving
- Links 12/04/2026: Mass Rebellion Against Slop, UK Crackdown on Nudification by Slop
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 12/04/2026: "Objective Truth" and Flutter
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 11, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, April 11, 2026
- Red Hat: We Kill People, But Please Obey the CoC or We'll Banish You
- From Red Hat's own site
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 43 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Particulars of Claims Almost Identical and 5RB Needs to Investigate Its Barristers (Its Reputation is at Stake)
- Scrolling up and down in social control media
- Gemini Links 11/04/2026: Floppy Disks on Linux and Junix
- Links for the day
- statCounter: Microsoft Windows Falls to All-Time Low This Month in France
- French government agencies are ordered to move to GNU/Linux
- Disgruntled IBMers Explain Why IBM is Circling Down a Death Spiral, Gerstner (Recently Deceased) Destroyed IBM in April 1993, and IBM Now Weaponises PIPs to Attack Its Own
- We've just checked if anyone has covered mass layoffs at IBM Red Hat. Nope.
- The Central Staff Committee of the EPO Explains Late March Meetings Coinciding With Commencement of the Non-Stop Strikes at Europe's Second-Largest Institution
- The fifth meeting report and sixth meeting report show some of the concerns leading up to the mass strikes
- Gemini Links 11/04/2026: Critique of Delta Chat and Why Trying to Emulate Centralised, Addictive "Facebook" is Misguided
- Links for the day
- Links 11/04/2026: Scam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI and EFF Quitting Twitter
- Links for the day
- Links 11/04/2026: Twitter Presence Considered Harmful to News Sites, "The Future of Everything is Lies"
- Links for the day
- thenextweb.com (TNW) Appears to Have Become a Slopfarm, Fake Articles About France and GNU/Linux Flood the Web
- If you're not against slop, you're part of the problem
- Almost 3 Days Later, Still Zero Press Coverage (Except One Publisher) About Mass Layoffs at Red Hat, Almost 500 People Laid Off (Over 400 for Sure)
- "A document posted by FOSS advocacy site Techrights appears to be that memo and explains that Red Hat has devised a location strategy under which it has identified key sites for prioritized hiring and strategic workforce investment."
- The Register MS, About 6 Million Pounds in Debt, Helps Promote Microsoft's Gartner Group and Prop Up the Ponzi Scheme of Slop Plagiarism, Fake Article Mentions "AI" About 20 Times
- What was now known as The Register UK not only works against the interests of the UK; it works for charlatans and frauds
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 10, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, April 10, 2026
Comments
Al Roberts
2008-07-14 20:19:28
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3560
"Writing Plasma Applets in C#"