Links 19/12/2008: More GNU/Linux in Planes, Java Better on GNU/Linux
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-12-20 02:54:13 UTC
- Modified: 2008-12-20 02:54:13 UTC
GNU/Linux
- PC breathalysers, green Linux and offshore pretenders
- The Flying Penguin: Linux In-Flight Entertainment Systems
The touchscreens that are beginning to replace those clunky old air phones on the backs of airplane seats have something in common -- they mainly run on Linux. Because it's lightweight, robust and flexible -- which is more than you can say about other operating systems -- it's ideally suited for in-flight entertainment.
- A Picture Is Worth A Thousand......
- Kiwi Linux 8.12 Has OpenOffice.org 3.0
- IGEL Technology Announces VMware€® Ready Certified Status for its Linux-based Thin Clients and VMware Virtual Desktop Manager
Versus Windows
- Lost Windows Password? Look To Linux For Help
- Analysis: Is Microsoft's IE Flaw The Last Nail In Its Desktop Coffin?
Fierce competition in the desktop and end-user application space is looming large over Microsoft. Google continues to develop knockout, Web-based apps like Desktop, Video and Docs. OpenOffice is going mainstream -- the new Ubuntu distro makes Linux easier than ever for the layman.
Mozilla and Sun Microsystems have developed serious alternatives in the browser and productivity suite arenas with Firefox and OpenOffice.org.
Microsoft has long had a stranglehold on the browser and productivity suite markets. That hold may start to slip. In the Test Center, we are seeing the number of SMB and consumer applications and devices that are being developed with Linux compatability at an all-time high.
Could this latest security issue and the fact that it had not been addressed for the last several years by Microsoft, arguably the Earth's most wildly successful software company, be that proverbial straw that draws the masses to alternative personal computing offerings?
Vendors
Philosophy
Benchmarks
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Gadgets
- Pocket size Linux PC with GPS and GPRS
- Palm CEO: Linux smartphone to ship in H1 2009
- New eBook Reader Undercuts Kindle, Sony Reader Prices
Available in black, gray, or white, the device will have 128MB of internal memory, plus USB and an SD Card slot (it'll come with a 2GB card, too). Because its screen draws very little power, battery life should be extremely long; Foxit says it'll go for 8,000 page turns between recharges; it recharges via either USB or an included AC adapter. It uses an embedded Linux operating system, too.
- The Linux Gadget Hall of Fame: One geek's picks
Linux has a strong following among those who manage corporate servers, a loyal corps of desktop users and a small but growing base of laptop users. But it's also been a big -- if stealthy -- success as a platform for gadgets.
In fact, there ought to be a Linux Gadget Hall of Fame. I'll get it started with the first group of inductees: 10 of the most important gadgets of all time, each one based on Linux.
- Deals on Electronics this Christmas
Acer's aggressive marketing for their netbook is clearly evident. The leading netbook seller has decided to sell the Aspire One at a very affordable price of Rs. 17,499 for Linux, while the Windows XP variant will go for under Rs. 20,000.
- MontaVista's new ARM11 Linux goodies
- New Linux distro targets device resellers
An open source project has released a new, more "hackable" Debian-based Linux distribution for the Openmoko NeoFreerunner phone. The Hackable:1 group hopes to build a well-maintained, developer-friendly codebase for use by VARs (value-added resellers) building products on top of Openmoko's open hardware designs.
Android
F/OSS
Leftovers
- Hackers Unlock iPhone 3G
- Larry Lessig: From Copyright to Politics, from Stanford (Back) to Harvard
At Harvard, he won’t be focusing exclusively on intellectual property — the topic that made him famous. He’ll, in the words of Harvard, launch a “five-year project examining what happens when public institutions depend on money from sources that may be affected by the work of those institutions — for example, medical research programs that receive funding from pharmaceutical companies whose drugs they review, or academics whose policy analyses are underwritten by special interest groups.”
- Media used by cable to create Google scandal
Why was this turned into an anti-network neutrality story? Probably because the Journal has long been banging the drum against neutrality, for ideological reasons and because big companies are big advertisers.
Also, I believe, because this is how cable operators — who fear a neutral network will break their video business model — spun it.
Why believe what I’m saying? Possibly because the two “experts” the reporters consulted to justify their spin, Richard Whitt of Google and attorney Larry Lessig, say their words were twisted.
- Social Contracts, Social Justice, and the Creative Commons
- Rank Your Free Music on Nodes.fm
- Judge protects Wackypedia hackers
- RIAA Stops Suing Individuals: Are We Home Free?
Recent Techrights' Posts
- This is How Microsoft's XBox and Entire Consoles (If Not Gaming) Ventures Will Ultimately Die
- Ensure you can blame "Tariffs" (politics)? If not "hey hi", the fashionable go-to excuse when businesses fail?
- The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part II - UK SLAPPs for Americans, SLAPPs for Profit
- Brett Wilson LLP has a track record of this kind
- Cloudflare Gives Us All Another Reason to Boycott Cloudflare
- If Cloudflare wants to use its vast surveillance network (which is what it does as a CDN) to foist paywalls and maybe something worse (like DRM on top), then Cloudflare should be more widely rejected as a company
- Someone Expiring Certificates on the Day of the 9/11 Attacks is Not Someone I Would Want Controlling My PC (or Deciding What's Authorised for Booting)
- "social justice warriors"
- More Microsoft-Red Hat Cross-Pollination as the Company Loses a Managing Director
- some people move from Microsoft to Red Hat and some do the opposite
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- Punching People Doesn't Work
- It makes nobody any safer
- Look Ma, No "Cloud"
- So far this year we've had an almost perfect uptime
- Links 24/09/2025: Autism Blame-Shifting and Typhoon Ragasa Enters China
- Links for the day
- Buying From Oneself is Not Business Success
- This isn't at all a joking matter even if you already laugh at the whole thing because your pension, savings etc. are tied to this scam at some level
- What They Really Hate David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) for
- Nothing to do with code
- Smart People Won't Buy 'Smart' Cars
- Imagine trying to sell someone a house (proper home) while insisting that it'll need to be demolished 5 or 10 years later, then rebuilt again from scratch on the same vacant lot
- The Relationship Between IBM Red Hat and Microsoft, Visualised
- This metaphor goes a long way (projects, collaborations, and outsourcing
- The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part III - Spying on Reporters' Families, Chaining Cases for Microsoft Employees Who Demand Censorship of Facts (Even Politely Expressed)
- the time seems right to wrap up this introductory series
- Links 24/09/2025: "NASA Moving Out of Entire Buildings as It's Gutted" and Purge of Online Critics (Opposing Fascism Becomes Unlawful)
- Links for the day
- Science is Under Attack
- Oligarchy prefers a dumbed-down population
- The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Has Reportedly Failed People With Wrong Advice
- At the moment the SRA has a PR blunder
- The Man Suing Brett Wilson LLP and Gervase de Wilde (5RB)
- Now he's probably using the (almost) 200,000 pounds he's supposed to receive to sue Brett Wilson LLP and former colleagues/partners
- Slopwatch: A World Wide Web That's Rotting for Companies That Won't Even Exist in a Few Years
- some of the junk Google News is promoting
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 23, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, September 23, 2025
- Links 24/09/2025: Qt Creator 18 Beta, Microsoft Cannot Bail Out "ChatGPT" Anymore, China and US Intensify Censorship
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 24/09/2025: Gemlogs and Politics
- Links for the day
- Links 23/09/2025: Japan Limits Uses of Skinnerboxes ('Smartphones') With Toxic "Apps", Fentanylware (TikTok) Tapped by "MAGAts"
- Links for the day
- Brett Wilson LLP Has Just Been Sued (by Their Own Clients!)
- Vladimir and Alla Yanpolsky sued Brett Wilson LLP in BL-2025-001167 at the end of last week
- Mayday: Optus emergency calling crisis
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Links 23/09/2025: Massive Data Breach, Slop Versus Productivity, and Vista 11 Update Breaks Things Again
- Links for the day
- Code of Censorship
- Extortion is peace
- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Un-cancelled the Best People, Just in Time for the Big 4-0
- Mr. Oliva should have been there all along (since 2019)
- Most "Modern" Technology Makes You Slower and Dumber
- Because proprietary software makes you worse off
- "What Comes After Free Software?" Wrongly Insinuates We've Reached the Goal (Prison is Not the Goal)
- The oil tycoons use similar tactics against environmentalists, giving them fake "wins"
- Making More Work Space
- I learned the hard way that less is more in circumstances where more means distraction
- MAHA is a Lie, Public Officials Never Valued Citizens' Health (They Still Value Private Businesses, Their Sponsors)
- Reject demagogues
- Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has a New Press Kit for the Weekend After Next Weekend (40th Anniversary)
- miles better than social [sic] media [sic] quips, moderated by narcissists and oil tycoons.
- Microsoft Had Two Waves of Mass Layoffs This Month (That We Know of) and It'll Get Worse for Microsoft Soon
- Will the axe fall again by month's end?
- Gemini Links 23/09/2025: Happy Equinox, Photronic Arts, and Perception Cognition
- Links for the day
- Lessons We've Learned After 17 Years of American Hosting
- GAFAM is "all-in" with the "Trump agenda"
- Back to Normal Now, We Plan to Do More In-Depth Series (or Multi-part Stories)
- Articles (or series thereof) that contain philosophy are important to us
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 22, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, September 22, 2025
- Microsoft Media is Panicking Amid Mass Layoffs Every Month, H-1B Fees, and "Seattle’s Tech Scene in Trouble"
- In "late stage Microsoft", copyleft becomes proprietary
- The Next Wave of IBM/Red Hat Layoffs Being Discussed Already
- Red Hat is sort of disappearing the way Tivoli did
- New Techrights Turns 2
- Today starts the third year of the SSG-based Techrights
- What Scares Them the Most is Independent News Sites That They Cannot Control and Censor
- Wikileaks was a good example of this
- If You Don't Control Your Online Platform, Then Someone Else is Controlling You
- be (or become) independent
- Oracle Started This Year With Slop. Then It Stopped.
- Passing fads are like this
- Distros That Run on PCs Made 20 Years Ago and Don't Use Systemd
- Betas for now
- The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Has a Policy on Racism and Sexism
- In then future we'll show the misogyny and racial slurs
- The Complaint About Brett Wilson LLP - Part I - Abusing British Women on Behalf of American Men Who Abuse American Women
- Transparency is important to us, so we've decided to make this series
- Slopwatch: Google News and the Evident Slopfarm Infestation
- This is what people get about Linux when they query Google for Linux
- Links 22/09/2025: Murdochs Might Join Fentanylware (TikTok) 'Investors' (Masters), United Kingdom Recognises Palestinian Statehood
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 22/09/2025: Esperanto Music History and Apps For Android
- Links for the day
- Links 22/09/2025: More American 'Censorship' (Retaliation for Journalism), Cheeto "Might Be Losing His Race Against Time"
- Links for the day
- The Blob Slop
- Give me more words, give me some text
- The 50-Pound Note Experiment and the "War on Cash"
- Britain is actually seeing a rebound in cash payments, and it's not a temporary phenomenon
- Slopwatch: Blaming the Victims for Microsoft's Failures and Plagiarising Phoronix
- That's what Google has been reduced to: slop and slopfarms
- Links 22/09/2025: Breaches, Windows TCO, and Arrests
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 22/09/2025: Rabbit Hole and DeGoogling Fairphone
- Links for the day
- Links 22/09/2025: Russian War Planes Invade NATO Airspace While Dihydroxyacetone Man Escalates Attack on Free Speech Because of Critics
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
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- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, September 21, 2025
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