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- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-07-31 22:23:08 UTC
- Modified: 2008-07-31 22:23:08 UTC
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- Lenovo to Enter Netbook [with GNU/Linux] Market by Late September
- The more things change
The latest Linux products, in contrast, are obviously better than their predecessors - it’s mostly with respect to installation procedures and oddball hardware support, but essentially every new distribution is genuinely preferable to what came before.
- Interview: Wind River's John Bruggeman
- MS's biggest blunder, uses Linux and Apache and PHP for its infrastructure to promote Windows Vista
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Title: The "Mojave Experiment"
- KDE 4.1 - Wow!
So I downloaded it to work alongside KDE 3.5 and wow, is it awesome! It's almost like an entirely different program, making my darling Ubuntu Gnome desktop look a little boring itself. I may even do a fresh install of Kubuntu in this partition with KDE 4, then upgrade to KDE 4.1. In any case, I'm sure I'll report back with more to say!
- Picking a Penguin
- Linux User Here
- 8 Best E-mail Clients for Linux
Managing e-mail is made easy with the use of e-mail client, also known as e-mail reader. Some e-mail clients can also function as feed reader and can support plug-ins and themes.
When it comes to picking the right e-mail client, Linux users have tons of choices. I have here a list of 8 of the best free and open source e-mail clients that are available for Linux.
- Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r1 has been released
An updated version of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5 code name `Viola` is available now. Viola r1 is synchronized with Parsix and Debian testing repositories as of July 24, 2008. This version contains several bug fixes, updated kernel drivers, updated documentation and updated X.Org. Highlights: GNOME 2.22.3, GNU Iceweasel 3.0.1, Pidgin 2.4.3 and OpenOffice.org 2.4.1. Viola officially supports Compiz-Fusion, VirtualBox-OSE and GNU Flash Player.
- 5 Reasons to Choose Debian Linux Over Ubuntu Linux
For those rare people who don’t know, Canonical’s Ubuntu distribution is basically Debian Sid (the unstable version) plus a few GUI apps and modifications. Debian is one of the most successful community-based distributions.
- Linux Sea, an online book on Gentoo Linux
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Freedom and Rights
Recent Techrights' Posts
- IBM: We Pay You to be Obedient or Deny You What You're Entitled to If You Don't Act Obediently
- Good luck starting legal battles with a company that has almost as many lawyers (including aggressive patent lawyers) as it has geeks
- Russian "Hybrid Attacks" Are Typically Microsoft TCO and/or Windows TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
- Information-related warfare relies a lot on computer systems
- It Seems Like IBM is Firing 'Everybody' (Anywhere, Any Age, No Matter What Team)
- Healthy companies would sack IBM's management (sacked by Board, bylaws etc.) but IBM is a sick company
- Latest Stallman Talk (Event in Argentina) Published
- Less than a day ago they released his talk
- LLM Slop Becoming Rarer
- Today we've found no LLM slop in our RSS feeds regarding "Linux"
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- Links 14/12/2025: Tensions in Asia, US Making Deals With Belarus
- Links for the day
- A Utopian and Very Dumb Vision of Technology, Based on Accounting Fraud
- the "industry" has become insane and a lot of "the media" is going along with it
- Links 14/12/2025: "The Slop of Things to Come", Goldman Sachs Nervous About Slop Bubble
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 13, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, December 13, 2025
- Google News is Google Noise
- Google News is really hopeless, even on weekends
- Links 13/12/2025: Jimmy Lai and Media Freedom on Trial, "OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Hiding the Truth"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 13/12/2025: Extensive Catchup With Gopherholes
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- Deliberate Lies or Glaring Distortions
- Calling Torvalds anything "Soviet" or "Russian" would overlook the fact he comes from Finland and has Swedish roots
- Canonical and Ubuntu: Working for Microsoft, Promoting Proprietary Surveillance (Dis)Services
- Canonical started with a rich and overambitious Debian Developer. He wanted to become richer.
- EPO People Power - Part XI - The Media in Europe is Ill and Complicit in Ills
- We must all recognise that there's a problem here
- Running With Technology
- At least they always run Linux (all of them, since 2015)
- Dealing With "Tech Cults"
- If you think you identified a "Tech Cult", walk away
- GAFAM is a Financial Problem and Sovereignty Risk, a Policy-Level (National Level) Boycott is Needed
- Europe has plenty of skilled computer engineers
- 2026 Could Very Well be Last Year of XBox, Microsoft Dropped the Ball
- It would be shocking is XBox can stage any kind of comeback
- Links 13/12/2025: Social Control Media Bans and "Could Finland be Hiding a Blue Zone?"
- Links for the day
- Expecting Mass Layoffs, More Microsoft Workers Join Unions
- they see tough times ahead
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 12, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, December 12, 2025
- Links 12/12/2025: GAFAM Now Trying to Settle With Remaining News Sites It Plagiarised, "NATO's Rutte Says Alliance Is 'Russia's Next Target'"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 12/12/2025: Bad Joke, Western Union Blues, and More
- Links for the day
- Life Began at 40
- This is what I wanted to do all along
- To Linus Torvalds, the Microsoft Linux Foundation is Increasingly a Liability and Risk to the Brand
- If Torvalds is no longer in control or "in charge", then somebody else is
- EPO People Power - Part X - Together, We Can Fix the EPO
- every call for action matters
- IBM Layoffs in Europe as Well
- IBM is a collapsing, dying old brand
- EPO People Power - Part IX - Insiders Say the EPO's Chief Propagandist Effectively Ousted (on Fake 'Sick Leave') Because of Reporting by Techrights
- So the EPO is in effect rewarding a cocaine addict
- Litigation Transparency Until 2030 or 2031
- The ultimate goal is to 1) improve the British legal system and 2) raise awareness of how this system works
- Links 12/12/2025: Thunderbird Adds Proprietary Plug, "Catch-22 of Canadian Digital Sovereignty" Explained by Michael Geist (About GAFAM/US)
- Links for the day
- Developing Some New Software for the Sites
- Sites that are static are in more control over their future and present direction
- Julian Assange on Fake Activists in Silicon Valley
- Julian Assange on Fake Activists in Silicon Valley
- "In a modern economy it is impossible to seal oneself off from injustice."
- ― Julian Assange
- EPO People Power - Part VIII - The Chipmunk on Cocaine, Now Deleting Videos
- video has been removed
- What If the Economy Isn't "Down" But Mostly Diverted? (While "AI" Fills a Gap for Capital That No Longer Exists in Tech)
- "AI" is an "Arms Race", because they need to be bailed out by taxpayers' money
- Techrights Site Search Was a Success After All
- A few hiccups dealt with, ironed out
- Valve's SteamOS, Microsoft Canonical's Ubuntu, and Other Platforms That Only Leverage Free Software (But Won't Protect It)
- Ubuntu "took off" not because it was very good or very easy. Ubuntu "took off" because of ShipIt, i.e. because of a multi-millionaire subsidising its mass distribution (at a personal cost).
- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Paid Respect to Its Founder This Year, Now It Wants You to Join
- We're glad to see the FSF paying respect to its founder in its Web site
- 2026 Guaranteed to Give Us Compromised Media Funded by "AI" Boosters to Promote "AI" and Sometimes be Composed by "AI" (Chatbots)
- follow the money of the Ponzi scheme
- Under IBM, Things Culminate at "AI-Equipped Customer Experience Transformation" at Red Hat
- Whatever that even means
- Andy Farnell and Helen Plews Now at the Wheel in Cybershow
- Cybershow (Cyber|Show) has very good blog posts and episodes
- Microsoft Trims More Jobs
- The worst layoff year in 20 years, by the numbers
- EPO People Power - Part VII - The Corporate Media and the Reference Sites (e.g. Wikipedia) Are Already Compromised and Complicit
- Looking back at the whole thing, it's clear to me that Europe does not really have free press
- EPO People Power - Part VI - Criticism Not Permitted, Media Subjected to Contempt by Cocaine Addicts Who Manage the Press for the EPO
- Why won't any large publisher in Europe cover this? What does that say about the state of journalism in Europe?
- "Smart" or "Intelligent" Agents and "Vibe Coding" Deletes Everything You Have
- A high price to pay, no?
- New Paper Shows That EPO "Growth" is Dictated From Above, Not Earned (More Monopolies Granted by Breaking Rules, Laws, Conventions)
- "Targets for 2026 are currently being handed down to individuals."
- EPO People Power - Part V - The European Media is Practically Dead When It Comes to Covering European Patent Office (EPO) Corruption
- That sort of sums up where European media/press stands
- Datacentre and Server Maintenance Next Week
- The last time we rebooted into the latest stable kernel was 96 days ago
- Afraid of Words, Not Afraid of Actions
- Those corporations want us to bicker over words, not their actions
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 11, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, December 11, 2025
- IBM Workers Still Blast IBM Management for Firing Loads of Workers While Overpaying to Buy Useless Companies
- IBM's CEO is killing the cow
- LLM Slop About Linux Still Seems Scarce
- LLMs aren't dead, but metrics published online say that their usage is fast declining
- Links 12/12/2025: Oracle Shares Collapse After Slop Bubble Inflated (Circular Funding/Financing One's Own 'Clients'), "Trials by Jury" in UK Considered
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 12/12/2025: 'Kinetic Energy' and Browsing Geminispace With a GUI, TUI, or CLI Client
- Links for the day
Comments
David Gerard
2008-07-31 23:22:16
(WMF does allow a little bit of Java into the system software. That's because so far Sun have been making good on everything they promised with freeing Java, so we think it unlikely they'll embarrass us at this stage.)
Roy Schestowitz
2008-08-01 04:31:32
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2008-08-01 06:00:33
Roy Schestowitz
2008-08-01 06:13:14
David Gerard
2008-08-01 10:41:47
The main vector of attack for Apple would be to put up a metric buttload of H.264 or similar encumbered-format content themselves.