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Fuzzy Logic Linux Hater’s Redux... dead? Long live... Oiaohm?!
Fuzzy Logic Linux Hater’s Redux... dead? Long live... Oiaohm?! | Linux Hater’s Redux... dead? Long live... Oiaohm?! |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Saturday, 06 December 2008 | |
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The “Rants and Laughs 8” section, with presumably the same date, notes: “It is nearly the end of the semester, and I am quite busy.” So, perhaps Mr Redux has simply been busy in class with to stuff around bashing Linux zealots. Maybe he found some female company and has been busy studying the female operating system instead of the Linux version. Or perhaps he really has just given up as Oiaohm suggests. I guess we’ve yet to find out whether the Redux has re-died or will instead be re-born with a new post. But until then, Oiaohm has taken up the mantle and announced his battle ground to the world. The world also has Telic at the ready to cleverly out-argue Windows zealots and Linux haters with freedom loving mental FOSS, whether it’s here or somewhere else on the web, and there are obviously plenty more Linux fans out there ready to die in a ditch to defend Linux to the last. All of that said, Ubuntu is now at 8.10, MintOS and PCLinux and other distros are really much better than earlier versions, and are rapidly maturing to provide a much bigger threat to the various versions of Windows and even Mac OS X. Linux has done very well on Netbooks as Telic likes to remind us all endlessly, and Linux could well be installed on virtually 100% of motherboards through Linux quick boot initiatives such as the Asus ExpressGate technology and similar technologies from others. Linux’s netbook success has clearly spooked Microsoft into making sure Windows 7 will run on today’s notebooks far faster and far more smoothly than Windows Vista, and has even spooked Microsoft into considering a Windows quick boot technology of its own. Telic has even pointed to talk of Microsoft offering Windows licenses to OEMs free of charge to ensure they don’t defect to Linux. Even IBM has done a deal with Canonical to offer a desktop environment at a much cheaper cost than through installing Windows and Office. Like I said, Telic has some great arguments and is often right on the money, even if his style of delivery is painfully smug and superior. Windows zealots are but foolish children after all, right Telic? And all those foolish children made Bill Gates the richest foolish Windows child of them all. Silly kids, eh? It still doesn’t want to make me stop using Windows, but Telic’s efforts have made me want to learn more about Linux, funnily enough. Even “mdsmedia”, another iTWire reader and Linux proponent, has made me re-think my objections to the waddling OS that is Linux. Ultimately, I still feel far more excited about the prospect of Windows 7 coming out in mid-2009, and the official beta on January 13 2009 than I am about any future relase of Ubuntu 9.04 or 10.04, but at the same time it’ll be very interesting to see how Canonical have evolved Ubuntu by then, and the advances the other Linux distro makers will achieve in all their next versions. Naturally I am using the Windows 7 pre-beta as we speak, and wrote an article earlier today called "Windows 7 build 6956 leaks to web as a VHD". Hours after the leak of 6956 there are already detailed instructions on how to install it. While I've flirted with the idea of going through all of that, which includes downloading it (which I couldn't be bothered doing quite frankly), the amount of stuffing around needed reminded me (even if erroneously from a Linux lover's point of view) of stuffing around with Linux. I'm happy with 6801 and the Blue Badge Tool and can wait a bit longer for the real beta of Windows 7 to launch. Just like I let the Linux lovers beta test all the latest Linux distros for me, I'll let the real Windows zealots figure out all the kinks in the Windows 7 6956 VHD. By the time they're done it'll be so close to the real beta anyway. So... whether the Linux Hater’s Redux is dead or not (let's hope it's not), and whether Oiaohm will do a good job or end up ditching his blog too, good luck to you whatever operating system you use, whether you’ve paid for it, downloaded it free of charge, or have naughtily pirated it and are at the mercy of Microsoft or Apple shutting you down at any time. Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Season’s Greetings, (insert your own end-of-year celebration here) and a happy 2009 to you all. Even you, Telic. :-) |
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