New “Dr. Bill” Podcast is Available Early! #19
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Dr. Bill Podcast – 19 – (01/12/06)
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Cool Video in your Browser!, Upgrading WordPress to 2.0, Microsoft tries to spread “FUD” (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) about Linux… again!, Creative tries to redefine the word “Podcast”, MySQL gets US General Services Administration approval!, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ article on the Microsoft “FUD” campaign, way to go, Steven!, Symantec uses rootkit tech in it’s software, oopsy, they are going to get raked over the coals like Sony! The Podcast was early because I am traveling this weekend!
MS FUD comment: Ubuntu has an installer that is very easy and is click “setup”. Same with PCBSD. Most user-friendly installs you can just do click GUIs to do most of them. The memory requirements however, MS does point out that OO is the same as minimum for Office. That’s true. The legacy claims are actually based on applications of the time. So they were making the comparison between 1995 linux versus 1995 windows mem reqs. Even with current requirements, you can technically strip them down to run on 0x86 hardware. Reason I say this is because Windows CE (up to 3.0) was a stripped NT kernel and could run on many many things. But your average person wouldn’t know this since it’s more development news.
Linux admins do cost more. But I’ve also found that straight Windows admins don’t really care to learn about new things, or stability. They don’t think outside the box either and are all point-and-click oriented. As a policy, I tend to look to people that at least try linux and are looking to learn more about it since those are usually the people that create OSS utilities so that everything is automated and running smoothly instead of… “oh.. just go reboot your computer to fix the problem” solutions. And it’s a good cut-off for hiring admins. ;)