Links 29/3/2014: Applications
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-03-29 11:49:49 UTC
- Modified: 2014-03-29 11:49:49 UTC
Over the years, the Maxthon browser (formerly known as MyIE2 way back in the day) has spread its reach beyond Windows and into different platforms, including the Mac and three mobile OSes: Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. Wondering where the love for Linux is at? You don't need to wonder anymore, because you can now download 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Maxthon for Linux.
KKEdit is a text editor based on GTK3 for GNOME, currently under development, with several useful features for the average programmer.
If you have attended my FOSDEM talk or seen the slides, you know about the concept of “component metadata” to describe (almost) all software components which make up a Linux system, as well as their public interfaces they provide for users and other software to access. This metadata specification was originally designed as part of the Listaller project for use with the 3rd-party software installer.
Other than OpenOffice and LibreOffice, the Linux platform lacks any full-featured office suite. Both of these open source office suites have more in common with each other than truly distinguishing features. Both flip-flop in performance, depending on which Microsoft skill they attempt to emulate. Their user interface is strictly classic old school.
Linux within cars was a big topic at this week's Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit in Napa Valley. Besides Intel talking up Tizen IVI, Xen Automotive is the work being done for using Xen virtualization on ARM hardware within automobiles.
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Christmas Music Project: Back to When Music Was Music
- now Canonical (or Ubuntu) says we should make available tens of gigabytes of disk space
- Browsing Techrights With a GUI and 10 Megabytes of RAM Per Tab
- Some people say it's not possible in 2025, maybe in part because they depend on very bloated software
- Gemini Links 25/12/2025: Hibernation and TV Detox
- Links for the day
- The Right to Repair (Especially When Products Are So Poorly Made)
- Many electrical appliances fail often/quick and are nearly impossible to repair
- The Register MS: Don't Use Linux
- That really says a lot about The Register MS
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- Kazakhstan Doesn't Need GAFAM Datacentres (Spy Hubs)
- Suffice to say, as far as we can gather nothing came out from the empty (false) promises of GAFAM's "data centers in Kazakhstan"
- So Simple That You Can Touch and Feel It
- In light of recent experiences
- Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Under Attack by Cross-Network Spam Floods
- So far we've been spared (our network has not been targeted at all) [...] Let's hope the spam won't discourage the hundreds of thousands of people worldwide who still use IRC
- An "AI-Infused" Windows
- Microsoft Windows isn't becoming a worthless pile of garbage by accident
- Microsoft Laid Off Over 30,000 People This Year, Coders Are "Too Expensive"
- Go get some popcorn. Microsoft "slopware" is about to get real!
- Critics Have Long Said Microsoft Produces "Slopware", Microsoft Wants to Prove Them Right
- Slop instead of code is a step in the right direction?
- The Top 8 Innovations of IBM in 2025
- What innovations will come out from IBM in 2026?
- And as the Year Turns...
- The significance of new years isn't based on geology or astronomy or anything like that
- Appliances Versus Computers
- Replacing a computer inside an object of some kind or inside an appliance (which nowadays includes "modern" cars) isn't simple and isn't cheap
- A Dark Side of Europe
- They try hard to silence people who speak about these issues
- Why People Love Techrights (and Also Loved "Boycott Novell")
- I will continue to publish for many decades to come
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 25, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, December 25, 2025
- A Tribute to Richard Stallman
- It's about knowledge and sharing
- Links 26/12/2025: Impermanence, Salt and Thermometer, Freetube
- Links for the day
- Canonical is Making the Cost of PCs Very High, Due to Unnecessary Ubuntu Bloat
- They say the reason for the price surge is LLM hype/frenzy
- Canonical's Ubuntu is Bloatware
- How did Ubuntu get so fat?
- The EPO is a Very Vicious Organisation You Neither Wish to Join Nor Stay in for "Too Long"
- Consider what the EPO thinks of its own workers, the staff that actually does real work
- 2026 Will Hopefully Turn Out to be Slopless
- we seem to be starting the post-Christmas period on the right footing
- Links 25/12/2025: Mail Carriers in "a Murky Future", Dihydroxyacetone Man’s "Chip Embargo Against China Backfiring Spectacularly"
- Links for the day
- The Register MS: All I Want For Xmas is Microsoft
- they actually put effort into it
- How to Win Nobel Prize for Peace
- Do you get to Heaven (or peace platitudes) by sleeping with 72 virgins?
- Links 25/12/2025: Ample Cover-up Found in Jeffrey Epstein Files; ChatGPT Causes Psychosis, Not a Good Use Case
- Links for the day
- Giving Money to Free Software
- In life, people must make sacrifices to do what's right and just
- EPO People Power - Part XV - EPO Cocainegate to Resume This Weekend
- The next installment (number 16) will probably come out this weekend
- Microsoft: XBox is Going "Online", "Cloud"...
- XBox as a console is pretty much dead
- The Year of the Bubble
- We hope that in 2026 the marketing liars will find some new buzzwords to latch onto and quit calling everything "AI"
- Mozilla Firefox is a GAFAM Browser With Slop, Move to a Free Software Web Browser
- on mobile the options would be more limited
- libera.chat Was Under Attack Last Night
- Several months from now libera.chat turns 5
- Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raises Over $300,000 Before Christmas
- the FSF made it past $300,000
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 24, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, December 24, 2025
- Sounds Like Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' (Slop) Ran Out of Money to Borrow
- Maybe in 2026 slop will be scarce enough that eventually, maybe by year's end, we'll manage to just ignore it.
- In India, Staff Works on Christmas Eve, Becomes Unemployed (Last Day)
- The company fires based on how "expensive" workers are more often than based on their productivity
- Links 24/12/2025: US TACOs on "China Chip Tariffs Until 2027", Russian Snickers in U.K. Convenience Shops
- Links for the day
- Links 24/12/2025: Cheeto President "Accused of Rape in Jeffrey Epstein Files", Windows to be Replaced by Slop?
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 24/12/2025: Tea, Love During Pain, and Gaming This Year
- Links for the day
- GAFAM is a Bubble, Nothing is Free in This World
- Nothing is free in the world
- My New CD Player/Stereo Didn't Even Last a Year, My CD Player/Stereo From the Early 1990s Still Works
- That helped reaffirm what I said in recent years about production/manufacturing standards of "modern" things
- GitHub Isn't Free, Microsoft Subsidises It (Losses) to Entrap You Inside Proprietary Software, Now Come the Fees
- GitHub was never free
- XBox Console is Dead, "Microsoft is Rethinking What XBox is"
- So XBox is now "cloud"
- IBM SkillsBuild: Teaching Slop to People
- What skills does that give? Making more slopfarms?
- Maybe 2026 Will be the Last Year of António Campinos
- Europe's patent system is run by thugs and it serves thugs
- 2025: The Year LLM Slop Rose to Prominence and Then Fell
- the slop hype is bound to end
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 23, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, December 23, 2025
- Links 24/12/2025: Spotify Surveillance and Shadow Over Rule of Law in Hong Kong
- Links for the day
