Links 22/08/2008: New Linux RC, Several GNU/Linux Releases
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-08-22 16:37:46 UTC
- Modified: 2008-08-22 16:37:46 UTC
Releases
Kernel
- Linux v2.6.27-rc4 [Released]
This time the diffstat is almost totally dominated by the addition of the musb driver that drives the MUSB and TUSB controllers integrated into omap2430 and davinci. That, together with the removal of the auerswald USB driver (replaced by libusb version) is more than half of the bulk of the patch, and obviously most users won't ever notice.
- Ubuntu 8.10 To Use Linux 2.6.27 Kernel?
Generating buzz this morning with the release of the Linux 2.6.27-rc4 kernel is word that Ubuntu may switch to the Linux 2.6.27 kernel for their forthcoming 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" release. Canonical's Ben Collins has proposed on the Ubuntu development mailing list that Intrepid be switched to using the Linux 2.6.27 kernel instead of using 2.6.26.
Minimalism
GNU/Linux
Laptops
Multimedia
Education
- Higher Secondary Board to catch up with FOSS revolution
- FOSS for students
Long the platform of choice for programmers and those doing advanced scientific computing, GNU/Linux is also home to a plethora of free and open source solutions for students of many disciplines. Applications such as the ones above provide a solid basis for those starting out in math and the sciences, but by no means make up an exhaustive list of all that is available.
F/OSS
- Open Source in an economic downturn
In conclusion, Open Source software offers businesses a powerful strategic tool in their armoury to survive, perhaps prosper, in the economic downturn. Businesses of all sizes, from corner shops up to the largest high street retailers are turning to it strategically, and your business could benefit from it too.
- Bradley Kuhn discusses software innovation, freedom, and the law (video)
Bradley Kuhn is not a lawyer, but he works at the Software Freedom Law Center and heads the Software Freedom Conservancy. He is fun to watch and listen to because he walks the tightrope between creative, carefree developers and cautious, legally-minded lawyers.
- SugarCRM Named Best Open Source Technology by CRM Magazine
- Zenoss Core Recognized as Best Open Source Network Monitoring Solution
Web
Leftovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Recruiters Don't Use Microsoft LinkedIn, Spammers Use LinkedIn
- One of my best friends, a university professor, lost all of his life's savings due to Microsoft LinkedIn
- You've Only Wasted Your Life in Social Control Networks
- In a sense, social control media is a giant delusion
- 2025 Was a Very Bad Year for Social Control Media
- statCounter sees a gradual demise in Social Control Media access
- Don't "Go Paperless", Go Paperful [sic] (for What Really Matters)
- Why should we favour paper use sometimes? Well, many reasons.
- The Slop Industry is Failing So Badly (Mountains of Debt, Losses) That It's Merging With the SPAM Industry
- we reckon that Google will eventually delist all slopfarms, recognising they're just a form of SPAM
- IBM Starts 2026 a Much Smaller Company (Not Homage to Gerstner)
- People who get bluewashed out of their job (or bluewashed into unemployment) are gagged by NDAs
- Microsoft XBox Having a "Dog Ate My Homework" Moment: No New Console Until 3 Years From Now... Because "RAM Prices"
- Who will ever remember this in 2028? Nobody.
- Gemini End of Year Capsules Tally (Based on Lupa) Shows About 10% Growth
- What a difference a year makes
- Dr. Andy Farnell Explains Why Chatbots Became Dishonesty on Top of Dishonesty (Hiding Usage of Dishonest Salads of Words)
- new article from CyberShow
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- Fiji: GNU/Linux Has Risen From Almost Nothing to Almost 5% in Recent Years
- It's not as small as people are led to believe
- Gemini Links 31/12/2025: Blogosphere is Growing and New Year Begins
- Links for the day
- Complexity Considered Harmful: We Used to Run an Operating System on 64KB of RAM, Not 64GB of RAM (a Million Times More)
- "Initially confined to single-tasking on 8-bit processors and no more than 64 kilobytes of memory"
- Links 31/12/2025: Cheeto Pushing for More Wars, ‘Security is a Shared Responsibility’
- Links for the day
- Enshittification of Postal Services Isn't Technological Advancement
- Societies that say the aim is to "go digital" and eliminate paper trail aren't advanced; they're moving backwards
- XBox is Likely Dead Already, But the Threat It Posed to Us All for Two Decades Isn't Over
- "the Xbox was never about gaming and merely served as a test bed for DRM in commodity systems."
- Ahead of 2026 Mass Layoffs at Microsoft the Tree Gets Shaken to See Who 'Falls' (Resigns/Retires)
- "We had a quiet meeting last week about budget realignment. No one said layoffs, but it’s clear where the focus is shifting."
- Almost 6,5000 Pages in 2025, Aiming Higher in 2026
- if we can keep focused, then quantity will increase
- Gemini Links 31/12/2025: New Resolution, Reverse Hexdump, and Programming Languages
- Links for the day
- Links 31/12/2025: Nvidia Faces Bubble-Bursting Moment, Saudi Oil Money Pumped Into Chatbots to Keep the Energy Waste Going (Circular Financing Again)
- Links for the day
- Richard Stallman's First Talk in a U.S. College Since 2018
- Greetings from Georgia Tech!
- EPO People Power - Part XX - Why António Campinos Chose to Put His Cokehead Friend on 'Sick Leave'
- EPO Cocainegate will be covered for months to come
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- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 30, 2025
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- Gemini Links 30/12/2025: FreeBSD, Gemlogs, and Xobaque
- Links for the day
- Get Ready for Gigantic XBox Layoffs at Microsoft (Much Bigger Than in 2025)
- he unionisation drive is a sign workers already expect this
- Concern Trolls: Stop Criticising Poor Gerstner Because Now He's Dead. Reality Check: Gerstner Has Found a Trick for Dodging Tax on His Hundreds of Millions in Wealth.
- Maybe even billions in wealth
- Samoa: GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Rose to Around 11%
- based on Web access data from Samoa
- DnD: Debian and Drugs
- There will soon be some interesting new information about Debian
- A Conundrum of Privacy/Surveillance: Will You Give Them a Stool Sample to "Feel Humane"?
- What if skinnerboxes in South Korea also required that people provide urine and stool samples?
- Nope, There's No Twitter "Successor"
- There's a lot of horrible abuse going on in social control media
- A Calm Year in IRC is a Good Year for IRC
- Next year IRC will turn 38 (in August) and in 2028 it'll turn 40, just like the FSF did a couple of months ago
- Slopfarms Covering Up for "Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella" After a Terrible Performance and a Terrible Year at Microsoft
- How to cause many to resign/retire, hence not be counted as "layoffs"
- IBM Was Never Saved, It Has Been a Downhill Journey for Decades Already
- Gerstner wasn't a tech person but a fiscal butcher
- Some GNU Joiners in Geminispace
- Jose E. Marchesi (known for GNU poke and a bunch of other things) adopted Gemini Protocol
- Jean-Slop Van Damme and the Art of Bull--- Code
- it's saving neither time nor money
- IBM Seems to be Doing to HashiCorp What It Did to Red Hat (Many Key People Leaving)
- "Today marks my last day at HashiCorp, wrapping up an incredibly rewarding 5-year journey"
- State of the Slop, Day 364
- How does Phoronix feel about Google promoting slopfarms that 'rewrite' its stories and slap slop images on top?
- Links 30/12/2025: "Durian Tsunami" and "Unneeded Surgeries"
- Links for the day
- Links 30/12/2025: Social Control Media Detox, Rage Against Slop Wasting People's Productive Capacities
- Links for the day
- Reality Check About IBM's Louis Grestner, Slopfarms Say He Was IBM CEO for 30 Years!
- It is "hallucinating" (lying)
- Debt as the New Currency?
- Rich people get richer because they take money from the rest of us, if not directly then by compelling us (collectively) to borrow money at a national level, then "invest" in them
- EPO People Power - Part XIX - "Berenguer Has Known of Campinos' Substance Abuse First Hand For a Long Time"
- "You rightfully claimed that Berenguer is Campinos' protegee"
- Gemini Links 30/12/2025: Quitting Coffee, Apartment by the Beach, and Strange Retail Ethics
- Links for the day
- Nintendo and Sony Outsold Microsoft XBox by 15:1!
- The mass layoffs indicate Microsoft is aware of this
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