Links 21/07/2008: More Large Companies Sidle with GNU/Linux, X Snubs NVIDIA BLOBs
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-21 20:42:15 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-21 20:43:16 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Intel snubs Microsoft; offers Linux certification
Intel's enthusiasm for open source is gathering speed: now it is endorsing professional Linux certifications, snubbing the old Microsoft certification program.
- Intel UMPC chip enters service as server CPU
Yes, we're talking Intel's Atom, specifically the 1.6GHz 230, which Bytemark's now using as the basis for what it claimed were its lowest-cost dedicated Linux-running servers yet.
- Alitheia Online Demo Available
- Why do GNOME people always play the man?
- RS: Ministry backs localised GNU/Linux distribution and CMS
The Serbian Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society last month presented Cp6Linux, a GNU/Linux distribution translated into Serbian, based on the GNU/Linux distributions Debian and Ubuntu.
The localisation of the GNU/Linux distribution was carried out by the School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Belgrade. Its name is derived from the Cyrillic writing of 'Serbian Linux', "ÃÂÃâ¬Ã±-ûøÃÂ½ÃÆÃºÃÂ".
- Stuff That Works With Linux #1
- Review: Sabayon Linux 3.5S
abayon 3.5 is a definite step up from 3.4a, despite only being a single subversion higher. The improvements and changes allow for a very complete, complex, yet simple and easy to use Linux distribution that can serve the needs of everyone from the UMPC and older PC users to those with the latest, greatest hardware. Sabayon Linux 3.5 really has a something for everyone, and it does an excellent job of fulfilling their motto of "Dreams we can believe in." And Sabayon 3.5 is more than a dream I can believe in, it's a reality I can use and trust.
- Installing Mandriva 2008.1 on the ASUS Eee PC
Out of the many distributions that work on the Eee PC, Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring (or 2008.1) is one that works exceptionally well. It can be installed to the built-in SSD or onto an external SD card.
- Brazilian Federal Court Unifies IT Infrastructure With Red Hat Solutions
Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Distrito Federal Justice Court (TJDFT) has implemented Red Hat solutions across the IT systems of its 16 courts and is leveraging the performance, security and cost-effective benefits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Cluster Suite.
- Face off: Windows vs Linux real world RAM and disk tests
Forget fear, uncertainty and doubt. How do Windows Vista and Linux really compare against each other? It’s one thing to talk about the familiar applications available to Windows users contrasted with the rich suite of free open source apps for Linux, but something totally different to actually compare the loads of the two operating systems as they perform functionally identical tasks.
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Windows’ memory usage went up by 0.07GB, or 71.68MB. The CPU still fluctuated madly but hung around 20%. Under Fedora, memory usage increased by only 50MB and with a maximum processor utilisation of 4%, shortly resuming to 1% while sitting idle (with Windows still jumping all about.)
Ubuntu
Devices
- Linux-powered CherryPal uses just 2W
The CherryPal mini-desktop runs an embedded version of Debian on a Freescale processor running at 400MHz, with 256MB of RAM and 4GB of internal flash storage.
- Towards using the FreeRunner as my primary phone
First of all, having a phone that you can SSH into and do all the usual Linux-y stuff on is very, very, cool. When you plug the phone into your GNU/Linux computer it appears as a device on the other end of a new network interface usb0. An SSH server is configured and works out of the box. You need to do a small amount of configuration to let your FreeRunner use your computer's connection to get to the internet.
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I installed a PDF reader and downloaded a couple of e-books to the phone. Astonishingly I can (pretty comfortably) read pages formatted for printed books on the FreeRunner's screen.
- Jailbreak for iPhone 3G released: how to use
- Q5 interview - John Bruggeman, Wind River
How important is Linux and move to open-source environments?
Growth of Linux went faster than anyone thought it would. For us the Linux business has grown from zero to $50m in 24 months. Most of our Linux customers originally experimented with free software and then they discovered the hidden costs.
- Automotive Linux drives innovation
There are vendors developing embedded operating systems for the automotive infotainment market but they do not have the scale to bring all the new and exciting capabilities to the equipment quickly. Well established real-time operating systems such as Wind River’s VxWorks can have around 50,000 developers and still can’t provide all the required drivers and interfaces in the time needed.Because of this, a number of large car and equipment manufacturers have been working on ways to provide innovative new equipment designs.
- Timesys Announces Embedded Linux Support for TI OMAP(TM) 35x
- Linux-friendly SBC is cool, rugged type
F/OSS
Security
Leftovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Datamation, Where I Used to Publish Articles, Appears to Have Been Sold to TechnologyAdvice Only to Become a Slopfarm
- I'd prefer to not associate with that site anymore
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- How Software Patents Were Viewed or Their General Status Changed Over Time
- A rough summary
- We Are Turning 19 in One Month, FSF Turns 40 in 3 Hours (CET)
- For our anniversary next month we still have no concrete plans
- Patent Docs (or PatentDocs) Learned the Wrong Lessons From the Death of TypePad
- Had they gone ahead with an SSG, they'd become a lot more future-proof
- USPTO Patent Bubble Already Imploding, After Decades of Artificial Inflation, Entire Offices Close for Good
- we can deduce that financial pressures (lack of "demand" for monopolies) play a role
- TikTok is Not Harmless (Being CheeTok in the US Will Advance Orange Agenda)
- Social control media isn't "fun and games"; it's a digital weapon that lets hostile groups or nations infiltrate others, then turn them against themselves
- Andy Farnell and Helen Plews Explain What "Modern" Tech Does to Old People
- Imposing terrible tech "religion" on people is not helping them
- Tomorrow the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Turns 40 and Its Web Site is Still Slow Due to DDoS by LLM Slop Bots
- For an advocacy group, uptime is important (for its message to remain accessible)
- Slopwatch: Google News as a Firehose of LLM Slop About "Linux"
- Google News is really bad
- Links 03/10/2025: "NPR’s Economics Lessons Come With Neoliberal Spin" and Canada Post at Risk
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 03/10/2025: Panic Attacks and Food Adulteration
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- Links 03/10/2025: Lawyers Caught Using LLM Slop Explain Why They Did It, LibreSSL 4.1.1 and 4.0.1 Released
- Links for the day
- FSF Board Grew 50% Since Last Year, Has New President, Turns 40 in Two Days
- It's a good move for the FSF and - by extension - for software freedom
- Links 03/10/2025: Conflicts, Death of TypePad, and TikTok/CheeTok Gives a Boost to Far Right Groups in Europe
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 02, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, October 02, 2025
- Slopwatch: Linux Journal, Google News, and LinuxSecurity
- They carry on polluting the Web with fake articles
- Gemini Links 02/10/2025: Kubernetes With FreeBSD and robots.txt
- Links for the day
- Links 02/10/2025: 'Open' 'AI' Resorting to Gimmicks and Fake Funding, Europe’s ‘Drone Wall’ Discussed
- Links for the day
- Links 02/10/2025: Brave Passes 100M Users Milestone, Kodak Selling Its Own Film Again
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- Michael “Monty” Widenius: It Started in 1983 With Richard Stallman (RMS)
- The other co-founder of MySQL is a bit notorious for confronting RMS rather viciously
- For the Second Time in a Few Weeks Microsoft Lunduke Makes False Accusations Against Senior Red Hat Staff to Incite a Despicable 'Troll Army'
- Nothing that Microsoft Lunduke claims of says can be trusted
- su lisa && rm -rf /home/ibm/power
- Novell was ruined by another person from IBM, Ronald Hovsepian
- A Record Demand at Microsoft: Demand to Cancel
- What we're witnessing is a very ungraceful destruction of XBox
- Microsoft is Losing Europe
- Hence all the "support" and "discount" offers that are limited to Europe
- The Free Software Foundation Starts Fund-raising for 40th Anniversary
- New pop-up 2-3 days ahead of the 40th anniversary event
- Systemd Breaks Networking in Debian and Microsoft Staff Rushes to Make Face-Saving Excuses in LWN
- Microsoft's bluca is already there in the comments, his Microsoft money pays for LWN to let him leave comments early
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 01, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, October 01, 2025
- What the End of XBox Will Look Like: a Fiery Crash
- XBox is the next Skype. It won't last much longer. Expect many more layoffs.
- Richard Stallman is Going to Finland to Give a Talk Next Thursday
- A day later he speaks in Sweden
- Gemini Links 02/10/2025: SMTP Pipelining and End of ROOPHLOCH 2025
- Links for the day
- Slopwatch: Plagiarism, Fake Articles, and FUD About Linux
- not a day goes by without Google News feeding FUD from slopfarms
- Gemini Links 01/10/2025: Chat Control and End of Life
- Links for the day
- Links 01/10/2025: Long Covid Risk Reiterated, "Bitcoin Queen" Caught
- Links for the day
- Links 01/10/2025: EA $55 Billion Deal is Debt and Slop "Raises Vishing Risks"
- Links for the day
- Bluewashing at Red Hat Means Redundancies
- The man who sold Red Hat to IBM meanwhile became a Microsoft Mono booster
- After Killing OpenSource.com, IBM ('Red Hat') and OSI Told Us OpenSource.net Would Replace It (But That Didn't Happen)
- Now it's time to move on, perhaps tarnishing the "Open Source" label some more (for whatever sponsor wants this)
- Linux is Not a Community Project, It's a Wall Street Product
- The core goal should be freedom
- Bad Actors Abusing the Free Software Community, Vandalising It Using Rogue Politics and Old Tactics
- Oil giants have long attempted to do this; now, the digital equivalent of Big Oil does this in technology
- Social Control Media Isn't the Future, The Federation or Fediverse Isn't Growing, People's Accounts Vanish for Good
- users' accounts will get deleted, not just become inactive
- IBM is Failing, This Helps Show Wall Street is Entirely Detached From Actual Commercial Performance
- IBM is unable to grow, it's just constantly shrinking
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, September 30, 2025
- Clerical Aspects of Publishing and Development
- In Free software, the management aspects are considerably reduced
- Slopwatch: Fake Articles and Google News Promoting "Linux" Spam or Bot-Generated Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD)
- These slopfarms help misplace blame
- Third Wave of Microsoft Layoffs in September, This Time Many in Liverpool Affected
- Be ready for more waves of layoffs ahead of the so-called "results" in late October