Links 24/07/2008: Another Victory for the GPlL, More Ubuntu-based Del in the UK
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-24 21:27:18 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-24 21:27:18 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Dell UK launches systems with preinstalled Ubuntu Linux
- PC with Windows XP can shift to Ubuntu
Ubuntu might be something that I may be interested in using, but I have Windows XP SPII and I was wondering if I would need to remove that from my computer in order to gain an advantage from Ubuntu, or if I could keep Windows on my computer.
- A Windows, Linux and OSx86 Capable Desktop Computer?
- The open source jobs boom
Demand for Linux server skills grew by only 18 percent -- but as you'd expect that segment has far more postings than any other. Similarly, JavaScript and Perl, which have been popular for some time, grew slowly but from a large base.
- Building an HPC Linux cluster has gotten simpler, Beowulf leader say
Donald Becker, an MIT grad who in the 1990s pioneered high-performance computing (HPC) with commodity components, returned to his alma mater recently to update the Boston Linux & Unix User Group (BLU) on the state of HPC and his work to make Linux clusters more powerful, more user-friendly and easier to manage.
- Review: Think small with Linutop 2
Shipped from Paris, the Linutop 2 costs $440 plus $40 for delivery and arrives in about a week. Linutop 2 will never be a performance PC for video editing, CAD or gaming, but is perfect for most office and personal uses that don't require Windows software. Neither too big, nor too small, Linutop 2 is just right.
- Ottawa Linux Symposium 10, Day 1
- Ubuntu Classroom #1 at Engineering Faculty
Saturday 19th, 7pm at Engineering Faculty Jember universty we made basic training about ubuntu. we made class in the night because many student have another class in the morning. in this clas we have 2 mentors, me and Ashadebi (from Debian Indonesia).
- Kernel Log: Centrino 2 WiFi driver iwl 5000 and webcam driver gscpa in Linux 2.6.27
- Happy 10th birthday, Mandriva Linux
Fedora
UNIX
Applications/Free Software
- Consonance: A lightweight GTK+ music player
- SuperTux, the Greatest Linux Game of All Time
If you ask my 3 year old son what's his favorite Linux game of all time, he would start hopping and say SuperTux in a loud and superhero-like voice.
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SuperTux is a highly addictive game that both young and old can truly enjoy. Kids will love it for its colorful graphics, easy game controls, and super cute penguin. The not-so-old will like SuperTux for its fast-paced action, secret levels, and super cute penguin. So why wait? Fire up that package manager of yours and go get SuperTux now!
- Introduction to Linux: Desktop Environments
You undoubtedly notice that, although the functionality seems to overall be similar (with a few minor exceptions), everything seems to use a different name and/or is in a different place. If you've explored more than one distribution, this may even seem to be the case between Linux distributions. I'll be covering the more mainstream desktop environments, as well as suggested programs to replace the ones you've come to rely on in Windows.
- 30 Gnome themes to enhance your Ubuntu experience
- Giving love to the Previewer
GPL
OSS
Symbian Failures in Wooing FOSS/Linux Developers
OSCON
Microsoft
- Microsoft's Online Woes Hint at Larger Vulnerability
"For the past two years, I've been totally confused about [the difference between] Windows Live, MSN and Windows," said Charlene Li, an independent technology industry analyst. "The messaging and product features don't pull together."
- Ballmer upset by Apple cart
He added that Microsoft “must continue to compete against Linux in key workloads such as web servers and high performance computing” in the business and enterprise space.
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- One day, one can hope, more people will recognise that for Software Freedom we need free press and free thinkers
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- Links for the day
- Join Us Now and Share the News - Part I: Defence of the Truth
- This year we make a very strong, firm statement for truth, even if that means explaining our work to the top media judge in the country
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- The Cocaine Patent Office - Part II: The Person Who Planted Paid-for Fake News for the European Patent Office (EPO) is a Cocaine User, Friend of António Campinos, Now on Record as Having Been Arrested
- Background: High-level manager at the European Patent Office caught in public with cocaine, arrested
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- Google News seems to be drowning in this stuff
- Gemini Links 28/10/2025: "How to Maximize Your Positive Impact" and ASCII Art and Artist Attribution
- Links for the day
- PETA and Activism
- Being staff or volunteer in PETA isn't easy
- Big Blue, Huge Debt
- debt will soar again
- Links 27/10/2025: Mass Surveillance Sold as "AI", People Reluctant to Lose Physical Media
- Links for the day
- Parties and Milestones Again
- we've begun putting up about 40 balloons
- Techrights' 19th Anniversary: Bronze
- Time to go back to preparing for this anniversary
- Our Latest European Patent Office (EPO) Series Will Last Several Weeks, Will Ask the EPO Management and the European Union (EU) Very Difficult Questions
- If nobody loses a job (or jobs) over this, then the EU basically became no better than Colombia or Nicaragua
- Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, UbuntuPIT, Brian Fagioli, and Google News
- We focus on stories that are fake or LLM slop that disguises itself as "news" about Linux
- Links 27/10/2025: Wikipedia Vandalism, Bruce Perens Opens up on Childhood
- Links for the day
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- LLMs have no knowledge or deep understanding
- Microsoft is Disloyal Towards Its Most Loyal Employees
- Against its most faithful enablers
- 19 Years, No Censorship
- No factual information is ever going to be removed, more so if it is in the public interest
- We Are Not a Conventional Site, That's Why They Hate (or Love) Us
- Throughout the week this week we'll be focusing on the EPO
- Following the Line of Cocaine All the Way to the Top
- Even a million denials and spin-doctoring won't distract from the core issue
- The Cocaine Patent Office - Part I: António Campinos Brought Corruption and Nepotism to the EPO, Then Came the Cocaine
- High-level manager at the European Patent Office (EPO) caught in public with cocaine, the Office has some answering to do
- Purchasing/Possessing Computers Isn't the Same as Controlling Computers
- Let's strive to put computers back under the control of their users, no matter who purchased these (usually the users)
- Gemini Links 27/10/2025: Alhena 5.4.3 and Fixing Bash
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- If statCounter (the Web site or the 'webapp') vanished overnight, we'd still have something left of it
- More Silent Layoffs at IBM/Red Hat
- when the media counts such layoffs or presents tallies the numbers are very incomplete
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Virginia
2008-07-25 09:36:03