Links 10/06/2008: More Migrations to GNU/Linux and More New Distributions
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-06-10 20:37:13 UTC
- Modified: 2008-06-10 20:37:13 UTC
Success Stories
Distributions
- Press Release - 64 Studio 2.1 'A Minha Menina' released!
64 Studio is a GNU/Linux distribution tailor-made for digital content creation, including audio, video, graphics and publishing tools.
- Release Notes for Linux Mint 5 Elyssa
This is Linux Mint 5, codename Elyssa, based on Daryna and compatible with Ubuntu Hardy and its repositories.
- [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-06-09
It has been a busy week for Sugar Labs.
1. Sucrose: On behalf of the Release Team, Simon Schampijer announced Sucrose 0.81.2 (Development Release). Features of this new release include elimination of some platform dependencies, an improved activity-list view, a graphical user interface to the Sugar control panel (including settings for Frame activation delays), and expanded internationalization of Etoys. The next development release is scheduled in two weeks. Thanks to everyone who made this release possible!
- DSL 4.4 Released
- Mandriva 2008.1 Spring Edition : Breath Of Fresh Air
Mandriva always stands one step ahead of other distribution in terms of overall experience.. Though ranked #6 in Distrowatch.. Mandriva features and utilities makes it one of the best newbie friendly distro out there.. The best feature of Mandriva is that the developers try to re master the new release from the scratch..
- How's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Doing?
As I reported two weeks ago, Red Hat expects to get an updated to RHEL 4--the 4.7 release, to be precise--out the door on July 21, which will include updates for hardware, bug fixes, and security patches. Red Hat hopes to have RHEL 5.3 ready in January 2009 or so.
- Debian Weekly News - June 9th, 2008
- Debian news : Debian Weather is back
Experiences
Laptops
Mobile
Kernel/Embedded
F/OSS
- GPL: why can't a lawyer understand it?
- GNewSense, the Present and the Future
- Tuxpaint is fun for kids and adults
- Who Will Rule The New Internet?
In many ways, these companies are technology's standard-bearers, though their guiding philosophies differ. Google, for instance, advocates an "open" Web and tends to push for open standards and alliances among developers.
- Boy Scouts of America look to open-source community for help
- Video: Firefox 3 Screencast
- Firefox 3: Past, Present, and Future
- Mozilla's open source phone system
- Open-source Asterisk appliance takes on Nortel
- Interview: John De Goes Introduces a Newly Free Source Code Editor
"The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source tools." Thus argues John De Goes, president of N-BRAIN, which creates and provides UNA, a source code editor.
- BJP to launch ambitious tech initiative to gain edge in elections
- Opengear Adds Open Source Network UPS Tools to Range of Console Servers
- Open Enterprise Interview: Bernard Dalle, Index Ventures
- Walking Three Tightropes
- Rowgen the full package, IRI CoSort says
- Sun Java CAPS chugs down SOA open source track
- Compiere Releases Open Source ERP Solution Upgrade
- Etelos Adds Open-Source Hosting
Gaming
Microsoft
Security
Privacy
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Free Software Community/Volunteers Aren't Circus Animals of GAFAM, IBM, Canonical and So On...
- Playing with people's lives for capital gain or "entertainment" isn't acceptable
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- Running This Site Mostly a Joyful Activity
- The real problem or the thing that we need to cancel is this "Cancel Culture"
- Australia Has Finally Joined the "4% Club" (ChromeOS+GNU/Linux)
- statCounter stats
- Debian as a Hazardous Workplace Where No Accountability Exists (Nor Salaries)
- systematic exploitation of skilled developers by free 'riders' (or freeloaders) like Google, IBM, and Microsoft
- Clownflare Isn't Free and Its CEO Openly Boasted They'd Start Charging Everyone to Offset the Considerable Losses (It's a Trap, It's Just Bait)
- Clownflare has collapsed
- Apple Delivered Very Disappointing Results, Said It Would Buy Its Own Shares (Nobody Will Check This), Company's Debt Now Exceeds Its Monetary Assets
- US debt is now 99.98 trillion dollars
- FSFE Still Boasts About Working Underage People for No Pay
- without even paying them
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 04, 2024
- IRC logs for Saturday, May 04, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- The Persecution of Richard Stallman
- WebM version of a new video
- Molly de Blanc has been terminated, Magdalen Berns' knockout punch and the Wizard of Oz
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- [Meme] IBM's Idea of Sharing (to IBM)
- the so-called founder of IBM worshiped and saluted Adolf Hitler himself
- Neil McGovern & Debian: GNOME and Mollygate
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- [Meme] People Who Don't Write Code Demanding the Removal of Those Who Do
- She has blue hair and she sleeps with the Debian Project Leader
- Jaminy Prabaharan & Debian: the GSoC admin who failed GSoC
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Jonathan Carter, Matthew Miller & Debian, Fedora: Community, Cult, Fraud
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Techrights This May
- We strive to keep it lean and fast
- Links 04/05/2024: Attacks on Workers and the Press
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 04/05/2024: Abstractions in Development Considered Harmful
- Links for the day
- Links 04/05/2024: Tesla a "Tech-Bubble", YouTube Ads When Pausing
- Links for the day
- [Meme] The Cancer Culture
- Mission accomplished?
- Germany Transitioning to GNU/Linux
- Why aren't more German federal states following the footsteps of Schleswig-Holstein?
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 03, 2024
- IRC logs for Friday, May 03, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- Alexander Wirt, Bucha executions & Debian political prisoners
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Links 03/05/2024: Clownflare Collapses and China Deploys Homegrown Aircraft Carrier
- Links for the day
- IBM's Decision to Acquire HashiCorp is Bad News for Red Hat
- IBM acquired functionality that it had already acquired before
- Apparently Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Again (Late Friday), Meaning Mass Layoffs Every Month This Year Including May
- not familiar with the source site though
- Gemini Links 03/05/2024: Diaspora Still Alive and Fight Against Fake News
- Links for the day
- [Meme] Reserving Scorn for Those Who Expose the Misconduct
- they like to frame truth-tellers as 'harassers'
- Why the Articles From Daniel Pocock (FSFE, Fedora, Debian Etc. Insider) Still Matter a Lot
- Revisionism will try to suggest that "it's not true" or "not true anymore" or "it's old anyway"...
- Links 03/05/2024: Canada Euthanising Its Poor and Disabled, Call for Julian Assange's Freedom
- Links for the day
- Dashamir Hoxha & Debian harassment
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Maria Glukhova, Dmitry Bogatov & Debian Russia, Google, debian-private leaks
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Who really owns Debian: Ubuntu or Google?
- Reprinted with permission from disguised.work
- Keeping Computers at the Hands of Their Owners
- There's a reason why this site's name (or introduction) does not obsess over trademarks and such
- In May 2024 (So Far) statCounter's Measure of Linux 'Market Share' is Back at 7% (ChromeOS Included)
- for several months in a row ChromeOS (that would be Chromebooks) is growing
- Links 03/05/2024: Microsoft Shutting Down Xbox 360 Store and the 360 Marketplace
- Links for the day
- Evidence: Ireland, European Parliament 2024 election interference, fake news, Wikipedia, Google, WIPO, FSFE & Debian
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Enforcing the Debian Social Contract with Uncensored.Deb.Ian.Community
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Gemini Links 03/05/2024: Antenna Needs Your Gemlog, a Look at Gemini Get
- Links for the day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 02, 2024
- IRC logs for Thursday, May 02, 2024
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
Comments
max stirner
2008-06-11 01:31:17
PitaGuy
2008-06-11 07:36:03