Links 22/07/2008: NimbleX 2008 Coming, Extreme Networks Sued for GPL Infringement
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-22 12:03:28 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-22 12:03:28 UTC
GNU/Linux
- PC vendors want to sell you desktop Linux
- Because the simple things in life are often the best.
- Exclusive First Look: NimbleX 2008 - The seven desktop Linux distribution!
Our good friend and developer of NimbleX, Bogdan Radulescu, gave us an exclusive copy of his new distribution, NimbleX 2008, which will be available for all of you tomorrow! I was really thrilled this morning when I saw the e-mail from Bogdan regarding the new version of NimbleX, I immediately downloaded the ISO image and gave it a try, to see what's new. In the following lines, I will share with you my personal thoughts about NimbleX, a small but versatile operating system based on the popular Slackware Linux.
- Indamixx Linux Portable Pro Audio Computer Mobile Digital Audio Workstation
The Indamixx touchscreen allows hands-on fader control with group-based automation in the Ardour DAW, as well as beat mixing and pitch adjustment in Mixxx, the digital DJ application.
Desktops
- the new GNOME duality
- KDE Components: Folder View
Overall; I like the FolderView widget and the idea of Icon-less desktop through sets of plasmoids. Kudos to the KDE development team for the component - a must have widget in the default collection.
Mobile
- Distributor spins "W.E. phone"
Mississauga, Ontario-based Koolu Inc. has agreed to distribute OpenMoko's Linux-based Neo FreeRunner in the Americas, the U.K., and the European Union. Koolu is distributing the FreeRunner under the name W.E. Phone, and is bundling it with Google Apps.
- Linux set to make mobile splash
Speaking at the Open Mobile Exchange portion of the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) in the US, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the foundation, touted the trends and technologies pushing Linux into a leadership position in mobile systems.
Hypervisors
- Linux as a Hypervisor
I'm also pleased of how the 2.6.24 kernel of my Penryn laptop that suspends with s2ram automatically with acpid when I close the lid, and it consumes only 0.5watts until I open the lid again. It continues playing YouTube video and audio inside KVM whenever I open the lid with only a few lines of KVM being aware of the suspend and resume to disable vmx/svm mode while the CPU is suspended.
I noticed that the design that requires the lowest effort to quickly reach equal or superior features usually wins the marketplace as it tends to be the most efficient and stable over time. I guess this is why we're not using IA64 laptops just yet.
- 5 Reasons Why You Should Use VirtualBox Over VMware Server
SaaS
F/OSS+Linux
Licensing
Rights
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Garrett Announces LibreLocal Instance in Northampton, Massachusetts (USA)
- his message was the only one last month
- 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
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- Gemini Links 10/03/2026: Woods in UK, Slop Laziness, and "Small Technology and Small Economic"
- Links for the day
- Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 8 Out of 200: Gross Misuse of UKGDPR to Protect the Agenda of American Back Doors (Mass Surveillance)
- Responding to bunk claims regarding UKGDPR and claims of 'analytics' in our sites
- Links 10/03/2026: Oil Prices Rising, South Korean/US Military Assets Redirected
- Links for the day
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- Over at Tux Machines...
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- 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
- What the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) and Action Fraud UK Have in Common
- Don't let London become the world's "crime capital"
- 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
- 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
- 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...
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- 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...
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