Links 01/01/2009: GNUmed Live CD Out; Linus Got Game

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2009-01-01 09:16:53 UTC
Modified: 2009-01-01 09:16:53 UTC

GNU/Linux

India gets its own operating system

Father of free software Richard Stallman is visiting Hyderabad to oversee the migration of thousands of computers to a new "Indian" operating system.
Spastically flailing around..
Linus Plays Prince of Persia - Again

It somehow seems appropriate that as well as continuing to devote himself to the development of the Linux kernel, Linus is still playing the games that occupied him at the time of its birth.
Goodbye Rhythmbox, Welcome Songbird!
History
- CA investigates: Open-source software
- Quiz: Australia's contribution to Linux and open source
Annual Stuff
Distributions
- PCLinuxOS N1PTT-TR5
  
  Recently PClinux annouced that their new beta distro for 2009. I have downloaded the OS and tested on my new Aspire One 150. right from the start the OS recognized the atheros wifi card installed and within a minute I'm good to surf.
- GNUmed Live CD 0.3.8 released
- Review: CloneZilla 1.2
Android
- Android-powered G1 phone is an enticing platform for app developers
- New Androids march into view
Ubuntu and Derivatives
- Episode 49 #!Crunchbang

F/OSS

Leftovers

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The Word About the Upcoming Talk by Richard Stallman - Scheduled for Friday This Week - Has Spread ("The Cost of Freedom," Lausanne, Switzerland): So the word is spreading
More Microsoft Cuts and Layoffs (Microsoft Media Mole Jordan Novet Tries to Float "Hiring Freezes" Spin After the "Headcount" Spin Failed): As one might expect...
Microsoft Breaks Linux Again: Does it even care? It's selling Windows.
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, January 14, 2025: IRC logs for Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Links 14/01/2025: Vaccination Hesitancy Problems and Kangaroo Courts (UPC): Links for the day
Gemini Links 14/01/2025: Introduction to GrapheneOS and Small Internet: Links for the day
Dr. Miriam Bastian From the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Gives a Talk in a Couple of Weeks at FOSDEM (Brussels, Belgium): It's good to see people from all around the world and with very different backgrounds united around digital philosophy
Andy Farnell on Eating Your Own Dog Food: focuses on security but goes beyond that
EPO Uses the Misnomer "AI" to Attack Software Developers in Europe: The EPO is nowadays a huge pile of crimes
The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Communication on "Reform" is "Incomplete and Misleading," Says the Central Staff Committee at the EPO: This puts Europe at risk and makes it more vulnerable
[Meme] How to Lose Social Life (While Pretending to Still Have It): Talk to people, not to microphones
Android (or AOSP) is More Free Than iOS, Both in Practice (as OEM Bundles) Both Are User-Hostile: In a perfect world, people would choose and deploy software that is entirely made up of reciprocally-licensed bits
Neuroscience of Consciousness Paper: Why Social Control Media and Proprietary Spyware Harm Your Health: "Software Freedom turns out to be good for your health"
Access to the Source Code of the Programs You're Using Matters (Even If You're Not a Coder and Cannot Fix Bugs): Companies like Microsoft tell us that full access to all the code isn't important
Guardian Digital (linuxsecurity.com) Publishes Fake Articles About Linux and About (for) 'Linux' Foundation Openwashing: Brittany Day is at it again
Links 14/01/2025: LA Crisis and EU, UK Respond to "X.com" Threat From South African Oligarch: Links for the day
"AI Music" is Not Music and It's Hardly "AI" Either: Synthetic garbage is a solution in search of a problem
Webspam in BetaNews: Not only is it marketing SPAM
[Meme] 13 Years a Slave of Microsoft: Might makes right?
Gemini Links 14/01/2025: The Gemtext Print Hurdle and New Game: Fill!: Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 13, 2025: IRC logs for Monday, January 13, 2025
Links 13/01/2025: Conflicts, Prisoner Exchange, and Homes on Fire: Links for the day
Angola: Microsoft Windows Falls Below 10%: Microsoft has a really bad 2024 in Africa
[Meme] Twitter ("X") Has Been Grooming Radicals Since 2022: Musk's very own "grooming gang"
[Meme] What Free Speech Ought to Mean: It does not sound like RMS suggests anything other than quitting social control media
Gemini Links 13/01/2025: RestFest, Yule, and Deedum: Links for the day
Modern Web Browsers as Web Censorship Software: We continue to recommend Geminispace
Two Weeks From Now Dr. Richard Stallman Speaks at The Summit of Future 2025 (India): he will be giving a "Keynote Address" in India
Microsoft is Tight With Money: It's About the Salaries ('Cost' of the Workers): a question of cost, not skill
Google Got People Sort of Addicted to Android So It Can Cash in (Services, App Store, Advertising) Decades Later: This is not software freedom
The Free Software Foundation Reaches 370k Dollars in Funding, Due Date is January 17th When Richard Stallman is Guest of Honour in Lausanne (Switzerland): Even fellow board members seem unaware of it
Record Lows for Windows (Microsoft) in Botswana: The market share of Vista 11 is seen as going down
Preserving Deleted Articles About Bill Gates Talking Like a Drug Dealer About Computer Users: Now it's 2025. Different challenge.
Links 13/01/2025: Disinformation, Social Control Media Actively Promoting Nazism, and Catchup With Ukraine: Links for the day
Microsoft Front Group Starts the Year by Championing Underage (or Child) Labour: the fake 'FSF'
TPM Boosters Inside Debian (TPM Isn't About Security, It is About Control Over Users and Their Machines): We're not rushing to any conclusions
Aaron Swartz Died 12 Years Ago After a Vicious Government Campaign to Stop Him: The Aaron Swartz story is a reminder of the importance of having verifiable/verified information out there for the general public to see
Links 13/01/2025: GitLab Enshittification and Minimalism and Efficiency with Gemini Protocol: Links for the day
Links 13/01/2025: Hardware, Health, and Conflicts: Links for the day
Chatbots Are Not Data-Driven, They're Human-Censored and Rely on Wage Slaves (and Sometimes Unpaid Volunteers): This is the Microsoft wage slavery
Microsoft Appears to Have Fallen to Only 15% in Maldives: This is a problem for Microsoft
Rumours of IBM Canada Layoffs: We'll keep a vigilant eye on this
Over at Tux Machines...: GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 12, 2025: IRC logs for Sunday, January 12, 2025

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