{"id":120,"date":"2004-05-03T12:41:21","date_gmt":"2004-05-03T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=120"},"modified":"2004-05-03T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2004-05-03T17:41:21","slug":"educationalinux-and-an-interesting-msdn-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/05\/03\/educationalinux-and-an-interesting-msdn-blog","title":{"rendered":"EducationaLinux and an interesting MSDN blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Linux in Education push is going strong &#8211; here in Victoria, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com.au\/index.php?id=1368609445&#038;eid=-219\">Novell wants to rule them all<\/a>. (Red Hat sleeping on the job, <i>again<\/i>?) Linux is, after all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/technology\/content\/mar2004\/tc20040331_8927_tc167.htm\">new life<\/a> for them.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Pratley has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/chris_pratley\/\">weblog<\/a>, where he seems to think that OSS software lacks creativity and has the main aim in <i>cloning<\/i> equivalent products from Microsoft. That aside, the comments are most interesting (and he agrees that the OOo team isn&#8217;t just cloning Office &#8217;97).<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, while a little dated, Kurt Seifried writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seifried.org\/security\/redhat\/20031230-redhat-support.html\">Notes from a Red Hat User\/Admin<\/a>, which does prove to be an interesting read\/comparison<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20EducationaLinux%20and%20an%20interesting%20MSDN%20blog&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2004%2F05%2F03%2Feducationalinux-and-an-interesting-msdn-blog&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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