Problems Linux Enthusiasts Refuse to Address

[David Gerard]

On 5 April 2011 17:31, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:06 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Canonical will need to do something similar for Ubuntu Server to be a
>> serious contender. Though running in a VM makes life a lot easier for
>> hardware support, e.g. my work is about to shift all its hosting to
>> Ubuntu VMs.

> Isn't that the direction enterprise is going anyway?  Server virtualization.
> Where one or two machines can replace four or five machines running
> multiple VMs at a time, with each VM doing a different job.


This is particularly important for Windows, where one box-one function
is the only way to get a reliable system. It's less important for
Unix. But yeah.


>  I see a
> lot about this in emails I get from ZDnet.


Beware ZDnet. The entire economics of the tech press revolves around
being cheap diseased whores - no separation between editorial and
advertising, blatantly trolling for ad-banner clicks with
pseudo-controversial articles.

There are individual tech press journalists who I'd trust to talk to
(waves to Liam), but in general the tech press are candy at best and
to be ignored.

Rant about how Wikipedia should have ignored the tech press from the
start and stuck strictly to the academic press:
http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2008/12/31/on-dealing-with-the-press/

The tech press is the canonical example of "just because someone pays
you attention, doesn't mean you should take them seriously."

The scary thing is that the tech press is economically viable. This
does not augur well for the rest of journalism.


- d.