Archive December 2008
Teacher confiscates Linux CDs, calls it ‘a carnival show for an operating system’
A teacher from Austin, Texas confiscated a bunch of CDs containing free Linux distributions from a student who was demonstarting GNU/Linux on his laptop and handing out the CDs. After this, the teacher sent an angry email to Ken Starks of the HeliOS Project, where the student got his Linux CDs from.
“This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all. I am sure if you contacted Microsoft, they would be more than happy to supply you with copies of an older version of Windows and that way, your computers would actually be of service to those receiving them…”
Read more here: Enemies of GNU/Linux?
Windows Vista SP2 Beta Out Now – Better than SP1?
Microsoft has made the first beta of SP2 for Vista publicly available. Brave souls who wish to install it now can try some of the improvements like reduced resource consumption for sidebar gadgets, 10% better power saving and Windows Search 4. This is as well as the mandatory long list of security and bug fixes.
It is reported that you will have to uninstall the beta in order to install the final release of SP2 when it becomes available some time in April 2009.
For more details check out PC World’s article Vista SP2: Six Things You Need to Know.
Here are some of the highlights of what SP2 includes
- Better blu-ray support.
- Better Wi-Fi performance when you’re exiting Vista’s sleep mode.
- Reduced resources required to run your various sidebar gadgets
- Support for exFAT which can handle larger files.
- Power management efficiency improvements by as much as 10 percent
32 and 64-bit downloads are available at the Microsoft Download Center.
Windows internet share drops below 90 per cent
The number of Windows users surfing the web fell below 90 per cent for the first time, making for Microsoft’s biggest market share drop in the past two years, according to new statistics.
Net Applications, which compiled the November data based on the sites it monitors, reports systems running Windows during the month was 89.69 per cent of traffic. That’s a change from 90.46 per cent in October.
Meanwhile, Mac users took 8.82 per cent of the market share pie, a gain from 8.21 per cent from the previous month. November is the company’s third month running with a share of internet traffic above 8 per cent.
Read more here: Windows internet share drops below 90 per cent
Hackers port Linux kernel to iPhone
The iPhone DevTeam, which has long been working on hacking iPhone firmware, has now ported the Linux kernel to the iPhone platform.
If you know one thing about Linux users, it’s probably this: they enjoy the challenge of installing their operating system of choice on pretty much anything with a transistor in it. It’s only a matter of time before they get around to replacing all those electronic singing greeting cards to make the sound of penguin mating calls.
So the news that Linux has been ported to the iPhone and the iPod touch shouldn’t exactly come as a shock; please hold your cries of heresy until the end. OpeniBoot, which brings the Linux 2.6 kernel to the iPhone platform was developed by members of the iPhone DevTeam, the same folks who have long been working on cracking the iPhone’s firmware every time a new version comes out.
Read more here: Hackers port Linux kernel to iPhone
(Via Macworld.)
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