Links 05/08/2008: Many More GNU/Linux Laptops, Mobile Devices
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-08-05 15:37:54 UTC
- Modified: 2008-08-05 15:37:54 UTC
Mobility
Laptops/UMPCs
ASUS/Eee
GNU/Linux
- Free Software in the Stores
- Vyatta Enterprise Router Runs Linux
- Operating free software down on planet Earth ...
Ubuntu was pitted against the industry titans — Apple’s OS X and Microsoft Windows Vista. None of the computers were successfully hacked on day one. But by day two, the Mac had fallen victim to an attack and by day three, the Windows computer. Only the laptop running Ubuntu was intact by the end of the contest.
- The technophobe sister and Xubuntu project.
5 weeks have passed and the machine has not been rebooted other than for system (kernel) updates. Normally by this time I would have done at least a couple clean up jobs and possibly one OS re-install because of those 2 and they’re online shenanigans.
She uses gmail just fine, she watches youtube just fine. She figured out on her own how to burn a cd and she’s synced her ipod with photo’s take with her digital camera. She has not had a problem with any of her online bill paying. She has edited her MS Word resume and submitted to another company where she recently landed a nicer job with OpenOffice Writer.
Best of all. I haven’t received one single solitary phone call on the computer NOT working. Not one.
- First Look - Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r1
Parsix is a nice solid little distro, but I'm finding it difficult to list one hard compelling reason why someone should switch to it. If you prefer the Persian language and keyboard, then Parsix is definitely for you. If you'd like a nice Debian derivative with a pretty GNOME desktop that works good, comes in one CD, and uses APT/Synaptic, then perhaps give Parsix a try.
For someone with Linux experience the installer is user-friendly, but for someone coming straight from Windows it may not be. However, the system is as easy to use as any other. It has handy features and applications, and the Parsix software repositories have lots more.
- Slackware vs Ubuntu: Old vs New
Slackware is a old linux distrobution that is very powerful, customizable, and fast.
It runs on a fairly new 2.6 kernel, KDE 3.5.9 and it uses pkgtools as its package manager...
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Ubuntu is a very user-friendly, gnome based linux distrobution. It has a great userbase and theres plenty of tech support for it too. It’s a great linux distro for someone who doesn’t like messing with Linux too much.
- CG Linux supports multicore MIPS64
- RedPost announces next phase of it's Ubuntu-based DIY hardware platform
- Linux rescues KVM rack gear
KDE
- KDE 3.5.10 to be released in August
KDE 4.1 was released just days ago, but the KDE team already prepares the next release for August: KDE 3.5.10. While there won’t be any new features in it it will contain many bugfixes.
- KDE 4.1 adoption seems high
KDE 4.1.0 was released this very same week and already 17% of Konqueror users of the last month to my blog are using Konqueror 4.1, seems quite high to me
- KDE 4.0 Style Theme for Firefox 3.0
Konqueror as a web browser still unfortunately lags quite a way behind Firefox in terms of compatibility. For that reason, many KDE users stick with Firefox, despite the poorer integration between the desktop environment and the browser.
- a brief history of beauty in kde 4
At the end of March in 2005 a bunch of people (15, if I recall correctly) gathered for an ad-hoc meeting in Berlin, Germany. There were artists, usability experts, developers, business managers and users. We all had one thing in mind: the future of KDE.
- Mandriva 2009 Beta 1 Brings You KDE 4.1
F/OSS
- Drizzle plans to wash away DBMS past
The open development model has also helped to define the development technology and tools used to build Drizzle. The code is licensed under the GNU GPLv2 and Aker insists that development should be based on a GNU tool chain. The core development is based on C99 and Posix.
As a result of adopting a GNU tool chain, Drizzle will only be available for Posix based operating systems. Currently these include Linux (Fedora), Solaris Express and Mac OS X.
- Ballmer makes McCain look bright when it comes to technology
Rights
Opposition
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Ageism in Tech
- Your protocol is "old"...
- In Norway, Android/Linux Has Just Hit All-Time High (First Time Since 2020), GNU/Linux Already Very Prevalent
- Despite its small population size, Norway gave us Qt and many other things
- Microsoft's Mass Layoffs Very Wide-Ranging, Media Focused on Gaming Though Microsoft Mass-Firing Lawyers and "AI" Staff (Contradicting Its Supposed "Investment" in "AI")
- Microsoft plans to fire almost half a thousand people in legal roles
- 2012 Article About the Free Software Foundation Blasting Canonical/Ubuntu Over Adoption of "Secure" Boot (Microsoft's Remote Control Over GNU/Linux Since PCs' Power-on)
- By Katherine Noyes (article has since then became 404, not found)
- Debian Can Dump Blind Users Because I am Not Blind
- the sort of mentality we're up against
- The European Patent Office Cannot Attract Proficient Patent Examiners Who Master Their Domain
- They are enablers and facilitators of corruption
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- Microsoft Lunduke Still Fighting Cancel Culture With... Cancel Culture
- There will be no "winners" in such 'debates'
- The History of Daily Links and Politics
- "I support Wayland, but I also support abortion..."
- Microsoft is at 0% "Market Share" in Most Areas
- Depending on the taxonomy chosen, there may be dozens of categories other than desktops and laptops
- "The moment MSFT stock fails to start tumbling, that’s the beginning of another corporate giant going under."
- There are far more layoffs at Microsoft than at Intel, but you would not get this impression based on Wall Street media
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 19, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, July 19, 2025
- Gemini Links 19/07/2025: Git For Authors and Filtered Antenna
- Links for the day
- UEFI 'Secure' Boot Abuses by Microsoft to be Brought Up in the UK High Court in 3 Months
- we'll seek compensation
- Russia Set to Ban Facebook?
- If WhatsApp is made to "leave", that means Facebook or "Meta".
- Next Year It'll Be Half a Decade Since the Fall of Freenode (and IRC is Still Doing OK)
- Our IRC network is still accessible using the exact same software that ran in Windows 3.x
- Lupa Will Soon Know of 3,100+ Active Gemini Capsules
- And some people in the "Small Web" try to tell us that Gemini is dying?
- The Slopfarms Are Taking Real News Articles and Replacing Them With Lies Generated by Machines
- Bluntly speaking, Fagioli is nothing short of an online scammer
- Links 19/07/2025: Techtarget to Cull 10% of Staff, New Threats to Free Press in the US (Home of Dangerous and Violent Stranglers From Microsoft)
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 19/07/2025: "Climate Justice” and Forking Programs
- Links for the day
- What Wayland and Microsoft/IBM systemd Have in Common
- focus on what IBM (Red Hat) is pushing while running over critics.
- Linux Already Has About 60% of the "Market"
- "When mentioning the client side," opines an associate, "it is essential to recite the list of other markets where Microsoft is negligible or a no-show. It is repetitive to do so, but it needs saying -- often."
- Finland (and NATO) Must Move to GNU/Linux and Dump Microsoft Even Faster
- "Microsoft is not a technology problem, it is a staffing problem."
- The Microsofters We Sued Helped Microsoft Make GNU/Linux 'Expire' This Year
- "Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration"
- linuxconfig.org Joins linuxtechlab.com and Others, Becomes a Slopfarm With Fake Linux 'Articles' (LLM Slop)
- They contain "linux" in their domain names, but they are just slopfarms
- Links 19/07/2025: Microsoft Cuts in China and Wall Street Journal Sued for Reporting on Jeffrey Epstein
- Links for the day
- Fascistic Policies Got 'Normalised' in 'Public Office'. Let's Not Let the Same Happen in 'Tech'.
- Political discourse typically guides what's "normal" and what "good citizens" should believe/feel
- Yes, Your Mastodon Instance Will Also Shut Down
- Few people run a one-person instance in the Fediverse
- The Demise of GAFAM Necessitates Greater and Broader Awareness
- Morale at Microsoft is really bad
- Free Software Foundation Reaches 75% of Funding Goal
- Not bad for this "Fosschild"
- Slopwatch: 7 New Examples of Fake 'Linux' Slop Pieces (Plagiarism With Misinformation)
- Serial Sloppers need to be shunned
- Links 19/07/2025: Kapo-berg Settles, Software Patents Challenged
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 18, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, July 18, 2025
- Links 18/07/2025: Peace With PKK and Connie Francis Dies
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 18/07/2025: Alhena 5.1.8 and Bornhack 2025
- Links for the day
- How to Top Up a "Limited Liability" With Even More Limitations (Dodging Accountability in the UK)
- Some people call it a "shell game". Sometimes it's done for tax evasion purposes.
- Free Software Foundation, Inc. (FSF) Inches Towards 75% of Fund-Raising Target
- Will the cutoff date be extended again?
- Gemini Space (or Geminispace) Grows, But Usage of Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Drops Further
- Ideally, all Gemini capsules should use self-signed certificates
- Links 18/07/2025: More Microsoft Layoffs in Activision, The New Stack (Sponsored by Microsoft) Complains About Openwashing
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 18/07/2025: OCC25 Gnus for Reading Usenet and RSS Feeds, Small Web Updates
- Links for the day
- [Meme] 9AM Meeting at Brett Wilson LLP
- Brett Wilson LLP in space
- Listing as Staff People Who Left the Company More Than Six Years Earlier
- There are apparently no laws against that
- Brian Fagioli Shovels Up LLM Slop (Plagiarism) Onto Slashdot, Then Uses Slashdot for Affirmation or as Badge of Honour
- Notice how some of his latest slop is presented ("as featured on Slashdot")
- Social Control Media Productivity
- Snapping photos of the bone
- The Law Firm SLAPPing Us For the Microsofters Lost 72% of Its Tangible Assets in the Past Year, According to Its Own Reports
- That might help explain why they're willing to tolerate serial stranglers from Microsoft as clients
- Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity.com Slopfarm and Slopfarms Propped Up by Google News
- "As LLM slop is foisted onto the WWW in place of knowledge and real content, it now gets ingested and processed by other LLMs, creating a sort of ouroboros of crap."
- Links 18/07/2025: Weather Events and Health Hazards
- Links for the day
- Microsoft's All-Time Low in Finland
- Microsoft is in a freefall
- Security: Shane Wegner & Debian statement of incompetence
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 17, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, July 17, 2025