Links 25/01/2014: GNU/Linux News Roundup
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-01-25 20:05:12 UTC
- Modified: 2014-01-25 20:05:12 UTC
Summary: Various articles from the past week, focusing primarily on GNU/Linux
Careers
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In this article, we present the findings of the January’s update of IT Skills Watch. Additionally, we study the whole data gathered in the last year to explain some fluctuations in the demand for some IT skills of interest. As a highlight of this article, we identify three IT skills, whose demand has clearly risen during the past year. This may give you an indication for the IT skills you need to gain knowledge of to stay ahead in the Linux job market.
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As scheduled, on the 14th of January 2014, we have launched LinuxCareers.com: a new niche job board, which allows recruiters of Linux talent to post their job offers to the targeted audience of Linux professionals. LinuxCareers.com specializes in Linux based careers and covers the US job market.
Migration
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Arista spent the last nine years building a switch operating system based on Linux, including nearly six years of field experience. Here are five lessons we learned along the way.
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Doubtless you've heard of Linux, free software, and open source software. It's important for small business owners to understand the finer points of these, because knowing what they are, and what role they play, is crucial to developing a smart business strategy.
Roundups
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Linus Torvalds released the first new Linux kernel of 2014 this week with the debut of Linux 3.13. As always with any given kernel release there are a lot of driver updates included in the new kernel.
HighPoint
Misc.
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Wolf is correct — I did find him via UberWriter, a beautiful Markdown editor. There are lots of Linux tools that work well and there are lots of Linux tools that look great, but there’s not always a lot of overlap between the two. UberWriter looks great and works great. Wolf uses Synapse, an application launcher, within GNOME, which has some built-in launcher functionality, but that lacks the depth and finesse Synapse offers. Wolf’s other ideas for how to enhance GNOME are very interesting, too.
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TweakTown is reporting that the US Army has purchased Linux-powered rifles from TrackingPoint.
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If there is only one message you take away from reading this, let it be this: Linux and FOSS do not need more glamorous elite uber-rockstar coders. We need more ordinary, dedicated individuals from all walks of life contributing however they can. Just plain ordinary people with whatever they have to offer.
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
- [Meme] The Cancer Culture
- Mission accomplished?
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- 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
- 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