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Orangutans are some of the most solitary animals critically endangered as human consumption grows; Ban Palm oil Industry.
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 7th of December 2017 06:46:07 PM Filed under
Orangutans are some of the most solitary animals critically endangered as human consumption grows.
Orangutans are currently only found in the rainforest of Borneo and Sumatra where both species are endangered. The orangutans' habitat has decreased and is rapidly being devastated by loggers, palm oil plantations, gold miners, and unnatural forest fires.
Watching videos of orangutans over hundreds of times is nerve-wracking, seeing them in distress and in great trauma as babies watch their mothers hacked and killed by poachers. They are using their machete which is so inhumane, as many of these infants die without the help of their mother and some other infants are sold as pets, ending in the hands of their 'owner', maltreated and malnourished, making their situation even worse. This happened because of the humongous demand and consumption of humans. Guilt is creeping on me; while enjoying my food and applying all the cosmetics for vanity it is like slaughtering an innocent and beautiful primate slowly and accurately. I wasn't thinking at all; I'm closely blinded of my needs, having never bothered to think that somewhere out there someone is tormented. I can't let this happen any longer. I must act and make a stand and be the voice of orangutans. I'm calling for everyone to ban and stop buying palm oil products. We must stop deforestation and the palm oil industry, strongly and swiftly before orangutans and all other animals sail into extinction. █
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VAR-SOM-MX7 is now available with Certified 802.11ac/a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.2 support
Submitted by Variscite on Thursday 23rd of November 2017 09:42:04 AM Filed under
Variscite Announces the Upgrade of its VAR-SOM-MX7 SoM with Bluetooth 4.2 and the Launch of its New VAR-SOM-MX7 Variant with Improved Dual-band 802.11ac/a/b/g/n Certified Wi-Fi Module.
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Variscite Launches New Variants for the DART-6UL SoM with Improved Certified Wi-Fi/BT Module with 802.11 ac/a/b/g/n Support
Submitted by Variscite on Thursday 15th of June 2017 03:27:17 PM Filed under
In a matter of only two months, Variscite has announced the launch of an additional enhancement for the DART-6UL System on Module (SoM) product line based on the NXP Cortex-A7 i.MX6 UltraLite family.
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Beijing Zoo is No Place for Pandas
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 23rd of April 2017 07:59:48 PM Filed under
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I am a Panda lover. I work as a support engineer in an I.T company here in the United Kingdom. Most of my spare time is spent watching different Panda videos -- both old and new videos. Basically, it is my therapy; a 'stress release' for me. I find them to be adorable and precious creatures. As a matter of fact, I would like to volunteer to come to Sichuan. I want to experience and feel what it's like to be a Panda keeper, to be able to interact with them for real. The Panda is China's National Treasure, so it's a shame to watch the Panda videos from Beijing zoo, as the place is disgusting and not ideal for Pandas to live in (and for sure for all the rest of the animals who unfortunately got stuck in this prison cell).
The place looks like a ghost town. Lifeless and languished. Knowing that Pandas wear a thick fur on their body, can you imagine what it feels for them in 30C or 35C (summer temperature)? What it probably feels like all the time? Come on, if you really care, you must do something now, otherwise these Pandas will die. Please bring them back to their sanctuary where they really belong. █
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Tux Machines is Now on Mastodon
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 14th of April 2017 05:21:50 PM Filed under
Summary: We can now be found in Mastodon too
A FOSS and decentralised Twitter alternative has received plenty of media attention/traction lately, so Tux Machines belatedly joins in and we invite readers to follow us there if they wish to create an account. The popularity of the platform exploded (number of users quadrupled so far this month). █
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We've Made It! 100,000 Nodes
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 31st of March 2017 06:38:16 PM Filed under
Summary: Another milestone for Tux Machines, which will turn 15 in a couple of years
100,000 nodes in Tux Machines will have been published later tonight. This one will be assigned node ID/#99995. Earlier today someone anonymous told us, "I just wanted to say thank you for all the work you've done and new information updates at tuxmachines.org."
That's what we are here for -- to help spread information. We don't profit or gain anything from this site, but it's our way of giving back to the Free/Open Source software community.
On to 200,000 (this may take another decade or more). █
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Translation of the Latest 'Microsoft Loves Linux' Charm Offensive
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 17th of November 2016 01:07:08 PM Filed under
QUITE a few additional articles -- mostly puff pieces (below is a complete/exhaustive list) -- have been published since yesterday's blog post, which was followed by a short article from Techrights. There is a lot of Microsoft PR inside the news/media right now (more and more by the hour) and it's coordinated (sometimes in advance, based on what we learned yesterday) by Microsoft. Here is a quick rebuttal to the 4 strands of news:
- The Linux Foundation joins Microsoft (not a slip): Microsoft paid half a million dollars for over a hundred puff pieces (in English alone) and lots of leverage over Linux, including a distraction from the patent wars it wages.
- The GNU/Linux crowd gets a proprietary software database it neither wants nor needs: This might be useful when Microsoft tries to infiltrate GNU/Linux deployments like the one in Munich, later boasting better integration with Windows than with GNU/Linux (same for running Bash/Ubuntu under Windows 10).
- Google and .NET: Microsoft accepts that it lost the mobile wars and also lost developers, so it tries ever more desperately to spread .NET and/or Mono.
- Tizen/Samsung and .NET: As above.
That's about all it means. Below is the raw PR, which is intended to sometimes (it doesn't always work) mislead the reader, having misled the writers/journalists. █
Related/contextual items from the news:
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Microsoft demonstrates its commitment to open source by joining Linux Foundation [Ed: Microsoft advocacy sites (often paid-for nonsense) like to pretend to themselves that Microsoft is now a good citizen, not racketeer. iophk: “You’ve probably seen links about LF joining Microsoft so I won’t add them. It would have been news if Microsoft joined OIN.”]
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Microsoft joins The Linux Foundation as a Platinum member [Ed: How MS advocacy sites put it; the larger payment (like political 'donation') was inevitable. To quote Benjamin Henrion, "Microsoft depends so much on taxing Linux via its dubious software patents that they have decided to join the Linux Foundation #corruption"]
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Microsoft now a Platinum Member at Linux Foundation and .NET foundation has Google onboard
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Microsoft joins the Linux foundation and blows everyone’s mind
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Microsoft And Linux Working On Advance Open Source Project Development, SQL Server And Azure App Service
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Microsoft and Linux Collaborates For Open-Source Game; As Rivals Unite, How Could Linux Benefit From This?
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Microsoft joins Linux Foundation as it continues to embrace open source
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Microsoft join hands with Linux Foundation as platinum member
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Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member
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Microsoft Becomes a Member of The Linux Foundation
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Is Google crashing the Microsoft open source party?
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Microsoft: SQL Server for Linux is the real deal
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Microsoft doubles down on Linux love, joins foundation
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Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation, launches test build of Visual Studio for Mac
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Microsoft makes open source commitment with new partnerships involving Google, Linux, Samsung
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Microsoft joins Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member
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Microsoft joins Linux Foundation, Open-Source development to get major boost
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Microsoft joins Linux Foundation at Platinum Partner
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After OpenAI Partnership, Microsoft Joins The Linux Foundation To Dive Deeper Into Open-Source Code
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Microsoft is joining the Linux Foundation
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Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation, Bets on Open Cloud Computing
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Microsoft Shows Linux Love by Joining the Linux Foundation
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Loves spreads, new Microsoft SQL Server now previewed on Ubuntu
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Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation, no really
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Linux Academy Partners with Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials Program
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Microsoft Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member, The Last Leaf has Fallen
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Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation, confirms commitment to open source development
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Microsoft has joined the Linux foundation
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Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation, After Calling Linux a 'Cancer'
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Microsoft Drops Tech Bombshell As It Joins Linux Foundation
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Microsoft partners with the Linux Foundation
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Microsoft and Google bury the hatchet in one small way
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Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation As Everyone Now Loves Open Source
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Microsoft is the Platinum member of Linux Foundation
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Linux Foundation Gets a Surprising New Member: Microsoft
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SQL Server joins the Linux party, new preview comes to Linux and Docker
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Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member, Google joins .Net community
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Microsoft joins Linux Foundation that promotes open-source technology
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Microsoft SQL Server Supports Linux
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Cricket Australia to adopt Microsoft’s team and player performance platform
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Microsoft announces association with Linux Foundation with Platinum membership
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Microsoft joins The Linux Foundation at highest membership tier
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Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation As Platinum Member And Releases Ports
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Microsoft Embraces Open Source, Joins Linux Foundation
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As Microsoft joins Linux, Google shakes hands with the .NET Foundation
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Microsoft joined the Linux foundation as a platinum member because of Cloud Services
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Microsoft, Google, and Samsung Bury the Hatchet with New Partnerships
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Microsoft, Google, Samsung Team Up In Open Source Development
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Microsoft surprises by joining Linux, 15 years after calling it a ‘cancer’
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Microsoft joins Linux Foundation in another nod to open-source code
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Microsoft officially joins the Linux league of open source contributors
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After Microsoft joins Linux, Google Cloud joins .NET Foundation
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Google signs on to the .NET Foundation
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Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation
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Microsoft’s .NET Foundation Now Includes Google
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Microsoft Joins The Linux Foundation In Latest Open Source Commitment
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Microsoft joins The Linux Foundation; takes on Oracle
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Microsoft Joins The Linux Foundation to Boost Open Source Software Ecosystem
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Microsoft has officially joined the Linux Foundation
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Linux Foundation Commits Suicide as Microsoft E.E.E. Takes a Leap Forward
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 16th of November 2016 08:49:17 PM Filed under
I have covered Microsoft's interference with FOSS for over a decade and carefully studied even pertinent antitrust documents. I know the company's way of thinking when it comes to undermining their competition, based on internal communications and strategy papers. Even days ago we got this in the news.
The pattern of embrace and extend (to extinguish) -- all this while leveraging software patents to make Linux a Microsoft cash cow or compel OEMs to preinstall privacy-hostile Microsoft software/apps with proprietary formats (lockin) -- never ended. What I see in the Linux Foundation right now is what I saw in Nokia 5 years ago and in Novell 10 years ago -- the very thing that motivated me to start Boycott Novell, a site that has just turned 10 with nearly 22,000 blog posts.
It is a saddening day because it's a culmination, after years of Microsoft 'micro' payments to the Linux Foundation (e.g. event sponsorship in exchange for keynote positions), which will have Microsoft shoved down the throats of GNU/Linux proponents and give an illusion of peace when there is none, not just on the patent front but also other fronts (see what Microsoft's partner Accenture is doing in Munich right now). The links below are a complete list of the bad (in my view very bad) news. █
"We need to slaughter Novell before they get stronger….If you’re going to kill someone, there isn’t much reason to get all worked up about it and angry. You just pull the trigger. Any discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger."
--Jim Allchin, Microsoft's Platform Group Vice President
In the news today:
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Microsoft Steps Up Its Commitment to Open Source
Today The Linux Foundation is announcing that we’ve welcomed Microsoft as a Platinum member. I’m honored to join Scott Guthrie, executive VP of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise Group, at the Connect(); developer event in New York and expect to be able to talk more in the coming months about how we’ll intensify our work together for the benefit of the open source community at large.
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Microsoft Joins The Linux Foundation As A Platinum Member
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Microsoft's Linux love affair leads it to join The Linux Foundation
No, this isn't The Onion and it's not April Fool's Day. Microsoft has joined The Linux Foundation.
Microsoft announced that it was joining forces with The Linux Foundation at the Microsoft Connect developer event in New York.
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Microsoft announces the next version SQL Server for Windows and Linux
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Microsoft joins The Linux Foundation as a Platinum member
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Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
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Microsoft—yes, Microsoft—joins the Linux Foundation
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THE END TIMES ARE HERE: Microsoft embraces Google, Apple, Samsung and even Linux in one go
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Microsoft's open source love fest continues as it joins Linux Foundation
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Microsoft Goes Linux Platinum, Welcomes Google To .NET Foundation
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Microsoft joins Linux Foundation in another nod to open-source code
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Microsoft Is Joining the Linux Foundation
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Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation
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Microsoft joins Linux Foundation in another step toward greater openness
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Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation, 15 years after Ballmer called it 'cancer'
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Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member, Google joins .Net community
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Microsoft is now a Linux Foundation Platinum Member
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That's an expensive Linux install! Microsoft gives the Linux foundation $550000
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Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation because 2016 isn't weird enough already
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Microsoft just got its Linux Foundation platinum card, becomes top level member
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4 no-bull takeaways from Microsoft joining the Linux Foundation
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Microsoft announces the public preview of the next release of SQL Server on Linux and Windows
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Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation, Google Joins .NET Community
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Microsoft just joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member
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Linux has won, Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
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Microsoft is joining the Linux foundation as a platinum member
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Microsoft joins Linux Foundation, Google added to .NET community
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Microsoft seeks to grow Azure platform with products, partnerships
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Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation As Platinum Member
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Microsoft Fortifies Commitment to Open Source, Becomes Linux Foundation Platinum Member
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Microsoft contributes to open ecosystem by joining Linux Foundation and welcoming Google to the .NET community
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Linux Academy Partners with Microsoft Visual Studio Dev Essentials Program
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Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation as the World Remains the Right Side Up
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Hell freezes over as Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation
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Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member
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Microsoft Connect: Visual Studio 2017, SQL Server v.Next for Windows and Linux and More
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SQL Server joins the Linux party, new preview comes to Linux and Docker
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Microsoft joins The Linux Foundation
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Google joins .Net Foundation
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Microsoft and Google bury the hatchet in one small way
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Google joins Microsoft's .NET Foundation
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Microsoft announces Visual Studio for Mac, preview of the next SQL Server with Linux and Docker support
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Microsoft's SQL Server Next for Linux, Windows hit public preview [Ed: Proprietary software with surveillance is not a gift]
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Google signs on to the .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen
Microsoft is hosting its annual Connect(); developer event in New York today. With .NET being at the core of many of its efforts, including on the open-source side, it's no surprise that the event also featured a few .NET-centric announcements...
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Samsung launches Visual Studio Tools for Tizen preview, lets developers build apps with .NET
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Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation, welcomes Google to .NET community
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Microsoft releases SQL Server Preview for Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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Microsoft says Linux is no longer 'cancer,' joining Foundation
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Record-Breaking Traffic
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 30th of October 2016 11:32:20 AM Filed under
Summary: Quick report about site traffic
Tux Machines has been enjoying growth in recent weeks, though it's hard to attribute it to anything in particular. The following are the past 4 weeks' logs (we delete all logs after 4 weeks, for privacy reasons, assuring no long-term retention).
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 389699117 Oct 9 04:40 access.log-20161009 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 454715290 Oct 16 03:46 access.log-20161016 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 478747167 Oct 23 03:12 access.log-20161023 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 499911551 Oct 30 03:40 access.log-20161030
We recently quadrupled the servers' CPU capacity.
The above is not the complete picture. That's omitting all the Varnish activity, which handles the majority of the traffic but simply cannot cache all pages. We are still trying to reduce the frequency of spam incidents (some of the spamy submissions manage to inject JavaScript very briefly).
We'll soon reach the 100,000-node milestone of this Drupal site. █
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Winner: Triathlon in The Spa At The Midland
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 10th of October 2016 09:02:59 PM Filed under
I never thought I could win in a challenge of 3 events.
I guess age is not an excuse for giving up... more so in physical fitness; as the saying goes, health is wealth.... consequently, I'll keep doing my routine and even yoga. It is extremely relaxing!
Motivation, hard work, discipline. By-product is triumph...
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GNOME Release Party Manchester
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 23rd of September 2016 09:19:56 PM Filed under
Summary: Today's party celebrating the release of GNOME 3.22
RIANNE AND I both attended today's GNOME release party in Manchester. It was a good opportunity to meet some geeky people, including a few from Codethink, which organised this event. █
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Web Site Traffic Growing
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 3rd of September 2016 08:41:27 PM Filed under
The Linux Foundation recently added the Platform for Network Data Analytics (PNDA)
Summary: Network/traffic analytics for Tux Machines
ULTIMATELY, here in Tux Machines we strive to include every bit of relevant news (standalone pages for more important news, clusters of links for the rest, grouped by topic). We rarely blog although sometimes we add an opinion (marked "Ed", shorthand for "Editor").
It has been a long time since we last wrote about statistics. As readers may know by now, we only retain logs for up to 4 weeks (security/diagnostics purposes), then these get deleted for good so as to maintain privacy (we cannot be compelled to hand over data). Those logs show only direct hits, they don't include pages served through the cache* (Varnish) and here is the latest, where the date stands for "week ending":
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 224439408 Aug 7 03:17 access.log-20160807 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 310050330 Aug 14 03:22 access.log-20160814 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 343901488 Aug 21 03:17 access.log-20160821 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 344256886 Aug 28 03:15 access.log-20160828
The above indicates that, judging by the back end (not cache), traffic continues to increase. Over the past week the site was sometimes unbearably slow if not inaccessible. In the worse case we'll upgrade the server for extra capacity, assuring decent speed. Worth noting is that in the latest log (ending August 28th) less than 1,000 hits came from Edge, so very few among our visitors use the latest and 'greatest' from Microsoft. █
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* The cache server services several domains, notably Tux Machines and Techrights, and it averages at around 1.5 GB of traffic per hour.
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Tux Machines Turns 12
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 9th of July 2016 01:21:02 AM Filed under
THE past few weeks were exceptionally busy for the site as readership grew considerably and the site turned 12. Originally, the site did not share Linux news but had various other sections. Years later Susan Linton made it the success story it is today and in 2013-2014 we only modernised the theme and kept the old tradition, format, etc. We hope this pleases longtime readers of the site. Comments on how the site is run are always taken into account. █
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SPAM Moderation
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 19th of May 2016 02:04:39 PMThere has been a system in place to help prevent SPAM since the last major SPAM incident, but sometimes we still overlook some SPAM which gets into the front page, taking advantage of our very liberal and open submissions system (to enable participation by the whole community of users). If any spam still manages to sneak into the front page (often with pesky JavaScript redirects), please get in contact with us ASAP so that we can take action. Thanks to Christine Hall for the latest headsup. █
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Malicious Spam
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 17th of April 2016 12:24:00 AM Filed under
FOR those who may be wondering, we didn't get compromised or anything. We never had any such incidents. What happened earlier is that some spammer, who had created an account before we limited account creation (due to spam), made the spam expandable to the whole screen, covering many of the pages with that spam (overlay). We are working on code to help prevent such spamming so that legitimate users can post comments etc. without spammers ruining the experience for everyone else. █
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Baidu Stages De Facto DDOS Attacks (Updated)
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 27th of November 2015 11:46:01 AM Filed under
Summary: A 2-hour investigation reveals that Tux Machines is now the victim of an arrogant, out-of-control Baidu
TUX MACHINES has been mostly offline later this morning. It has evidently become the victim of Baidu's lawlessness, having fallen under huge dumps of requests from IP addresses which can be traced back to Baidu and whose requests say Baidu as well (we tried blocking these, but it's not easy to do by IP because they have so many). They don't obey robots.txt
rules; not even close! It turns out that others suffer from this as well. These A-holes have been causing a lot of problems to the site as of late (slowdowns was one of those problems), including damage to the underlying framework. Should we report them? To who exactly? Looking around the Web, there are no contact details (in English anyway) by which to reach them.
Baidu can be very evil towards Web sites. Evil. Just remember that. █
Update: 3 major DDOS attacks (so far today) led to a lot of problems and they also revealed that not Baidu was at fault but botmasters who used "Baidu" to masquerade themselves, hiding among some real and legitimate requests from Baidu (with Baidu-owned IP addresses). We have changed our firewall accordingly. We don't know who's behind these attacks and what the motivations may be.
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With the latest Kubuntu 15.10 (Wily)
Submitted by gfranken on Tuesday 10th of November 2015 08:25:39 PM Filed under
I love the KDE desktop—I really do. However… here are some grumbles.
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Record Week
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 26th of October 2015 10:01:06 PM Filed under
QUIETLY but surely, last week marked an important milestone, with traffic at the back end (not the cache layer*) exceeding 1.8 million hits, thus establishing a new record. So far this week it looks as though we are going to break this record again. We hope that the new format, which places emphasis on high importance links (as standalone nodes) and puts less important links in topical groups (grouping like games or howtos), makes reading the site more convenient and makes keeping abreast of the news easier, without getting overloaded in a way that is not somewhat manageable (links inside groups are typically less important, as intended). We're open to any suggestions readers may have to ensure we remain a leading syndicator of GNU/Linux and Free/Open Source software news. Any feedback can improve the site. █
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* It is difficult to measure what happens at the Varnish layer as it's shared among several domains, including Techrights.
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Back to Normal Next Week
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 23rd of September 2015 09:21:49 AM Filed under
IN CASE it's not already obvious, we have been posting fewer links since the 14th of this month because we are both away and we catch up with some news only when time permits. Today's hot day (38 degrees) will probably allow us to stay indoors more time than usual and therefore post some more links (from Rianne's laptop), but a week for now is when we'll properly catch up with everything that was missed and gradually get back to normal, hopefully for a long time to come.
Please bear with us while we enjoy our last chance to have a summer vacation. It's already cold back home in Manchester. █
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Acer Chromebook 15 for Linux and Wimbledon
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 17th of July 2015 09:18:09 PM Filed under
Earlier this month my husband and I needed a replacement for the Chromebook that I had installed Linux on after Christmas because the keyboard developed a fault. This was a good opportunity to get an upgrade and to connect the 28-inch monitor to it, allowing us to watch Wimbledon over the Internet (we don't watch TV).
Unboxing photos:
Setting up the machine:
It comes with Chrome OS, but I don't want that:
Switch to developer mode:
Setting it up to not be so locked down:
With Roy's help, installing Ubuntu LTS:
Nearly done:
Running KDE/Plasma (my favourite):
Running XFCE:
Running Unity (which I still try to use on a daily basis after using KDE for years):
We have since then bought a cabinet for the external screen and Roy finished building it 2 days ago, so now we can watch shows while we work (4 screen combined using Synergy). █
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