On this morning's newspaper. So I am ahead of the curve by about 48 hours. That's not much :-)
Interesting: it seems Windows was mandatory in official usage. Weird, since I have seen hundreds of Linux servers on official usage :-)
This is something I have not read about much so:
Well, I teach Linux courses for several companies. In the last year or so, almost every course has one or two or five students coming from the IT area of some government office or another.
That includes local and national government, by the way.
Some of them are already on deployment stages on servers, a few even on desktops.
Here's what I know about this stuff:
There's no master plan. Every little place is doing its own thing, all in the same direction. That sucks a bit.
They are going to be in trouble. Lack of planning means people suddenly find their desktop is now Linux, for instance :-). That's not going to be too nice.
They will do it anyway: The governemnt can't buy a dead rat at a sale, much less MS Office
Being a semi-known Linux consultant around here is going to be interesting in 2004
Some people are peddling Linux and are clueless. Others are clued-in, but they are not the ones getting the boss's ears.
If you are in gov. IT, you gonna have to learn Linux quick.
Xandros is making a big push here: it seems some of the development for it is local (they are overselling the local share, though, but this is government, that was to be expected).
Red Hat and SuSE are not selling themselves too well in that area
Lots of stuff is happening, in the quiet. For example, it seems that several provincial Education Ministries are shipping all new computers to schools with Linux in it. Of course they probably get reformatted in 48 hours.
Most servers, specially mail/web/file servers should be switched to Linux before 2006 (this is mostly a guess)
Expect MS to offer a busload of free licenses to the government soon (a guess, too, but want to bet?)
Been busy. Work is back in full throttle, so time for coding and blogging is low.
Hopefully, I will earn enough in the coming month to take it easy in march, then go crazy in april and so on.
This blog has been much more fun than I expected and I want to thank the guys at pyds for hosting it for free, they provide excelent service :-)
Life is good. I have been playing with a flyvideo2000 I will install for a client: sweet TV board. I think I will buy myself one.
It works with linux (after some learning, which is good, too)
MythTV turns it into a lovely recorder, TV, etc, except you need internet for it to work at all (or else it doesn´t get a channel list!).
For a few dollars I get another TV and VCR, which I don´t need but is cool anyway
With a little effort and some cool free code, it can monitor surveillance cameras, saving a client of mine from buying a digital recorder... and giving me some more money :-)
It has a remote that is supported by lirc (haven´t made it work yet) so I am supposed to be able to remotely control mplayer/kaffeine/whatever (even when not playing TV :-)
So, all in all, fun stuff.
The only bad piece is, I haven´t coded much (or at all), but I will get to it on due time.
Nice read. Haven't seen the ads, though.
Ok, not SCO, but Exo Training.
You see, I teach Linux courses for a couple of companies (steady job, bad pay, but steady, you meet people), and we use the Exo Training facilities.
Well, one of the guys there contacted me to see if I was capable of teaching the SCO courses.
I said no, of course, but hell, doesn't it surprise anyone that there are still such things as:
SCO LINUX System Administration
SCO LINUX Network Infrastructure
SCO LINUX Network Services
SCO LINUX Enterprise Administration
SCO LINUX Enterprise Security
And these are offered right now!