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January 21, 2005
Lazy FUD
The worst FUD is uninformed FUD. That's usually the result of
laziness - making declarative statements based not on your own
experience, but on the secondhand experience of others about who's
motives you know nothing.

Case in point.

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Tony, that is not the real Linuxgazette. This link is:
http://linuxgazette.net/current/

Posted by: jack1953 | January 21, 2005 02:52 PM

The .com site is one of SSC's properties - along with Linux Journal -
while the .net site is unaffiliated.

The comment, of course, isn't directed at the site itself, rather at
the author who's relied on some of the most common and destructive
myths about Linux to create a post.

Posted by: Tony Steidler-Dennison | January 21, 2005 03:09 PM

The author isn't exactly what I would call a seasoned pro:

> Subhasish Ghosh, currently
> a final-year student of
> Informatics and
> Computer Science
.....
> He has MCP, MCSD
> and MCSE certifications;

The FUNNIEST part is this one:

Nicely put, hardware systems running free software are not easily
upgradeable, and even if they are, are not upgradeable to a great
extent. Linux performs the worst in this case.


This dude is really out there....

-Frank

Posted by: Frank Merenda | January 21, 2005 03:47 PM

PC's and linux are a hobby for me. I can't comment on this article
on any other basis.
I've played with and studied various distros since '97 and my gut
tells me the writer is prejudiced. I also note the English classes
given by Microsoft has improved the communication skills of their
non-english speakers.

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Pablo Picasso

Posted by: joseph | January 21, 2005 06:00 PM

I loved his comment about Sun ultraSPARC terminals being a better
choice than Intel based workstations.

Just a couple of years ago, I had to purchase a couple of Sun
terminals to run a network management system. Both systems had
complete, unrecoverable failures within a year. Sun would not
support them following the failures either.

Go figure.

Posted by: Mike | January 21, 2005 10:09 PM

Yes, it is the real Linux Gazette. The people using the name Linux
Gazette aren't affiliated with SSC, and are doing so without
authorization of SSC. We're trying to sort that out peacefully.

Think of some volunteer RedHat software developers getting angry at
RedHat because they didn't like the direction and ended up
registering RedHat.net. That's what happened. And we're sorting that
out, legally if we have to.

Posted by: Taran | January 22, 2005 08:48 PM

Oh, incidentally... as a community mag... LinuxGazette did allow the
posting of that article. It doesn't mean we agree with the author.
It's not for us to agree or disagree with the community... it's for
us to facilitate the community.

That's the beauty of the Content Management System... and the
Content Management System is what got some of the volunteers upset,
creating LinuxGazette.net.

Posted by: Taran | January 22, 2005 08:51 PM

Thanks, Taran. I was a little curious about the overlap in the
names. I'm glad to see that SSC is working behind the scenes to sort
things out. Not that you guys need to be told, but that's probably a
good lesson in registering .com, .net and .org names as a group.

I also suspected that there was no editorial position on the
article. That's the better nature of open forum-type sites. People
are free to post - with the very real possibility of scorn and
embarassment should they choose to write so lazily. Let the
community manage and judge the content.

Posted by: Tony Steidler-Dennison | January 22, 2005 09:12 PM

The people at linuxgazette.net are the people who ran the gazette
for years SSC changed the format and focus of the gazette so those
people left and started using the .net address
If you go to http://linuxgazette.net/issue96/reborn.html
you can read the other side of the story

Posted by: jack1953 | January 25, 2005 12:42 PM

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