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Summary: Nowadays "the news" is polluted with a lot of GNU/Linux-hostile nonsense; like with patents, the signal-to-noise ratio is appalling and here we deal with a poor 'report' about "Linux servers" failing to work

THE OTHER day in IRC we discussed this article that mentions "Linux" many times when in fact mentioning a hardware incident. "Are Microsofters trying to generate bad press for Linux?" we asked. "This is a hardware problem, not at all related to GNU/Linux. Maybe some Microsofters are trying to undermine the teaching of GNU/Linux there?"

The video above discusses what's in the article and why it's a tad suspicious. It is reminiscent of some FUD campaigns we saw before. "Third-year Rohan Gupta reported that, in addition to the CS website, he was also unable to access his classes’ Linux servers," it says. Well, hardware dies sometimes. My laptop died some days ago (Friday), but within 2-3 hours I replaced the physical drive and began installing the latest Debian. This can take time.

The media still loves to stigmatise GNU/Linux as not secure, not reliable etc. But for much of the time they would be better off focusing on Microsoft's reliability and insecurity issues, including last week's massive Clown Computing outage at Microsoft. The media barely covered it. ⬆