Published by Robert Pogson November 30th, 2008
in Uncategorized.
There have been lots of M$’s sycophants spreading the word now. Vista II will save you…
When has M$ ever been on time?
Since Vista is still in beta, I think it would be better to call M$’s next release alpha software. The folks who bought Vista before SP1 certainly did not get release-quality software.
Those who are clinging to XP waiting for the next good release from M$ should better be planning a migration to MacOSX or GNU/Linux. The re-learning will cost a lot less than all the re-re-re-boots Vista II will cost. Even if their next release is Vista SP2 and is decent, do you really want a supplier of software who takes 8 years to get it right or a release early and often system that keeps an even keel? Go with GNU/Linux. It works for you, not against you.
Look at Debian. They are trying to release soon, too. see their bug-list. There, you get an honest description of the situation. If they can do a new release every year or two and get that kind of quality in more than 20000 packages, on a bunch of architectures, why would you even think of going with M$ with an unknown number and they do not hesitate to release show-stoppers like the long good-bye and DRM?
- Robert Pogson
Published by Robert Pogson November 29th, 2008
in Uncategorized.
In Brazil, it definitely is the Year of GNU/Linux. According to many references to a study by GFK Marketing, in a recent quarter, 20% of PCs delivered there shipped with GNU/Linux. How cool is that for such a country where IT and the temperature are hot?
That is what you can expect in a country where the government encourages the use of FLOSS and eats its own dog-food, and discourages shipping with no OS. Russia, and China do some of these things, too. It is probably the Year of GNU/Linux for a large part of the world.
- Robert Pogson
Published by Robert Pogson November 29th, 2008
in Linux in Education and Teaching.
I have written three essays which I hope will convince some readers that GNU/Linux is the way to go in education and, especially, that thin clients should form the bulk of client PCs in education.
- Robert Pogson
Published by Robert Pogson November 3rd, 2008
in Uncategorized.
Larry Seltzer croons a fine tune for M$ over at eWeek. He goes on about how safe folks are running Vista…
This comes a couple of weeks after M$ was attacked by malware that could walk right in through the connection to the Internet with no user interaction. This comes after much of the world has panned Vista for being unusable and lacking any useful features over XP. Larry writes about an OS produced by a company who released ’95, ’98, and ME on the world while praising the long feature-lists. That other OS has so many rough edges that malware writers do not know where to begin. Any OS designed to execute images and other crap will never be as secure as an OS like GNU/Linux that places reasonable limits on the powers of users. M$, itself, has stated the UAC was designed to harass users and they have planned to tune it up in 7, now leaking all over the web. Larry praises a product even M$ does not like. Sad.
Read Cyberinsecurity, Larry. Any software maximizing complexity is extremely unlikely to be more secure than software designed to be simple and efficient like FLOSS. When we can see the source we do not tolerate such crap in it. M$ hid so much junk in Vista that it would not run on most PCs but suddenly 7 will… What useless crap did they throw out Larry? Think any of it may have had vulnerabilities?
- Robert Pogson
