Links 04/12/2008: GNU/Linux in China, ODF in Germany
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-12-04 13:00:42 UTC
- Modified: 2008-12-04 13:00:42 UTC
GNU/Linux
- Using Linux to Overcome Comcast's Policy of FUD
- Dell customer awarded Windows refund
Devir was not interested in the Windows Vista system on his Dell laptop, opting for Linux – an open source system – instead.
- Unix and Linux Troubleshooting E-Book
- You're Never Too Old For Linux!
- Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?
- How Windows Users are Changing Linux and What We Should Do About It
- Metastasis
- Tux on a Groom's Cake
- Opengear Extends Console Server Product Line to Include Comprehensive Power and Environmental Management
China
Kernel
- Linux 2.6.28-rc7
- Real World Benchmarks Of The EXT4 File-System
In Nexuiz, World of Padman, and Unreal Tournament 2004 to represent gaming on the Linux operating system, the results were virtually identical. To the Linux gamer, switching to EXT4 or XFS will not really mean much in the way of improved frame-rates. If though you deal with compressing files often, of the four file-systems tested, the best appears to be EXT4 or XFS. When it came to multimedia encoding, we cannot call a decisive winner. In our GnuPG encryption test, EXT3 was the fastest followed by XFS. However, in the Bork encryption test, EXT4 was the fastest followed by EXT3. EXT3 does still appear to have some advantages.
Graphics
Desktop Environments
Compatibility
Video
Sub-notebooks
Phones
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Distributions
- DSL - Damn Small Linux 4.4.10 review
As part of a survival toolkit, Damn Small Linux could be something of a saviour. Earlier this year, this writer used a previous release of the distribution to excise a couple of gigabytes of files from an otherwise-locked-down Vista installation, and while it didn't save the machine concerned from complete reinstall, it did rescue an awful lot of data. It did it with no fuss, utter simplicity and earned a lot of appreciation as a result.
- Gentoo, build it like Lego.
- Excelixis 1.0: A new workbench
Red Hat + Clones
Debian
Ubuntu + Derivatives
F/OSS
Leftovers
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Mass Layoffs at IBM, But Mostly in Secret (PIPs and 'Voluntary' Redundancies)
- Gerstner laid off a record number of people; Krishna tries to find 'innovative' new ways to cause workers to leave
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- New Data Shows Microsoft's XBox is Really Dying
- XBox is a "burning platform"
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 21, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, August 21, 2026
- Sources-First Publication
- Thank you for keeping us on track
- Ubuntu is Not Linux
- I was one of the first users of Ubuntu
- Links 21/08/2026: Outrage Over Politicians Who Support Slop-Feeding Data Centres, "America Is About to Get More Expensive"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 21/08/2026: Rain Coming Back and "Small Internet"
- Links for the day
- Slop-ware: Nobody Knows What Code Goes Into Linux and Most Developers Cannot Understand the Rust Code (Even If They Tried)
- So nobody is in charge
- The Slop Pyramid Scheme (Not Boon!) Isn't Good for GNU/Linux, Even If the Plagiarism Engines (Framed as "Training" or "Intelligence") Almost Always Run GNU/Linux
- We need the slop pop - we need the bubble to pop
- North America: GNU/Linux Measured at 13%-15% Every Night
- many (north) Americans use GNU/Linux at home and are using it to access the Web in the small hours of the morning
- Links 21/08/2026: "Silicon Valley’s Billionaire Cults Are Coming for Democracy" and "Who’s Raking it in as the National Debt Explodes?"
- Links for the day
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 157 Out of 200: What is a 'Defamation Troll'?
- "Defamation Mill" also
- Northern Europe Leads the Pack in Abandoning Windows After Threats Made to Greenland (Says Clownflare Data)
- Clownflare has a vast trove of data, so it cannot be easily dismissed as pure nonsense
- Clownflare: In Past 12 Months Microsoft Windows Fell From ~80% to ~75% on Desktops/Laptops in Asia
- Microsoft is deep in debt
- Secret Layoffs at Microsoft, Apparently More Sites Will Shut Down Entirely
- vindicates us and serves to affirm what we've said for over a month
- The State of Slopfarms About "Linux" in August 2026
- The Web needs serious cleanup, which curation can help deliver
- IBM Offers Workers Some Money to Fire Themselves, It's Called "Next Step" and It's Allegedly 'Extended' (Not Enough Fools Have Fired Themselves)
- Will IBM executives - including the CEO - ever be held accountable?
- £5 Million Unsolicited/Undisclosed Bribes and What That Means to British Politics
- It still remains unknown (disclosure denied) who helps fund the £1 million lawfare against us
- [Satire] Pocock, Binface & nobodies vs Farage: defamation before UK High Court
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- The IBM Censorship Team, PIPs (Silent Layoffs) in IBM Europe
- There seem to be many de facto layoffs going on at IBM right there
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 156 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP Becoming Wilson FC
- Now acting almost like one-person shop (lots of staff has fled this past year)
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 20, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, August 20, 2026
- Gemini Links 21/08/2026: "Ensmallening the BigWeb", "Rust Dependencies"
- Links for the day
- Links 20/08/2026: 'Linux' Foundation Promoting Slop Hype for Money (Hype as a Service), Malaysia’s Exports Jump 38% Year-on-Year
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 20/08/2026: A "Break From Routine" and "Modem Was the Problem"
- Links for the day
- Clownflare Reckons GNU/Linux is on Almost 1 in 10 Laptops/Desktops in Western Europe
- Western Europe and China are leaving more of GAFAM behind them
- Looking Ahead at September
- Rianne and I look forward to a productive September
- Links 20/08/2026: Facebook "Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians" and Facebook Faces "Social [Control] Media Addiction Trial"
- Links for the day
- Clownflare Sees GNU/Linux at 16% Market Share on Desktops/Laptops in Tajikistan
- in Tajikistan it seems like adoption of GNU/Linux is exceptionally high, based on a very large data set associated with Web access
- The Demise of Social Control Media Continues
- Entering (anew) social control media in 2026 seems foolish
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 155 Out of 200: Throwing Stones in Houses Made of Glass
- character-assassination-as-a-service
- Gemini Links 20/08/2026: Planners, Pantsing, Vinylyssee
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 19, 2026
- IRC logs for Wednesday, August 19, 2026
Comments
stevetheFLY
2008-12-04 13:19:43
http://abisource.com/release-notes/2.6.5.phtml
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landofblind
2008-12-04 22:07:12
You should do more of that. Give it more space and importance. And less of the anti-Microsoft rhetoric.
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Roy Schestowitz
2008-12-04 22:13:45