{"id":77,"date":"2004-03-23T06:40:39","date_gmt":"2004-03-23T11:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=77"},"modified":"2004-03-23T06:40:39","modified_gmt":"2004-03-23T11:40:39","slug":"linux-the-new-fangled-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/23\/linux-the-new-fangled-word","title":{"rendered":"Linux the new-fangled word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Linux is the new-fangled word in Malaysia. Or would that be &#8220;affordable PC&#8221;, now with several companies getting into this, right after the PC Gemilang campaign\/project was launched. We now have a &#8220;PC Mesti Beli&#8221; with an AMD XP 2200+, and a 60GB disk, and to cream it all off <a href=\"http:\/\/star-techcentral.com\/tech\/story.asp?file=\/2004\/3\/22\/technology\/7577823&#038;sec=technology\">HP might want to join the bandwagon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 3 competing projects, all with Linux. The PC Mesti Beli one is coming with  RH9 &#8211; which runs out of support this coming April &#8211; but its administered by the same company that did the Thai Linux roll-out, and there&#8217;s TimeDotCom helping with connectivity. HP wants to use TurboLinux (<i>why?<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>Chandra Devi thinks this is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emedia.com.my\/TECH\/BizComp\/NewsAnalysis\/20040318121904\/wartrevamp\">piracy boost<\/a> (in her article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emedia.com.my\/TECH\/BizComp\/NewsAnalysis\/20040318121904\/wartrevamp\">Prospects of &#8216;Affordable PC&#8217;<\/a>). I see Nan Phin comment that training is &#8220;crucial&#8221; and must be &#8220;affordable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hardly affordable, when you see the MNCC offering an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mncc.com.my\/ossig\/oss101-ttt.html\">OSS101 Train the Trainer programmer<\/a> for 5.5 days, at RM1,800. Bloody hell, some of those notes are mine. 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