The “Bedrock Edition” of the Dr. Bill Podcast #57!

Dr. Bill Podcast – 57 – (10/07/06)
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Dr. Bill learns to pronounce “curmudgeon!” Yeah. Tech news for you any time that you need it! The One Minute Tip promo, as a member of the Techpodcast Network! Official Weird Al Geek Culture called, “Bedrock Anthem.” And ol’ Fred woulda probably used e-mail, huh? E-mail it seems is for ol’ geezers! Kids are saying it is so “last millenium!” But e-mail is still beneficial… IMHO! VMware rocks! They now have a new “P2V” Converter beta available for free! The new version of Crossover Office for Linux will allow you to play World of Warcraft, Half Life 2, and Counterstrike! Pretty cool! Splash pages on websites… so dumb! How you can convince someone that they are so un-cool! Darkmoon gives me a hard time over Star Trek teleportation! Chill, Darkmoon! I just meant that teleportation as a science was advancing… yeeesh! (Grin!) Ubuntu Linux may be profitable in two years! Rock on! Props to my buddy Scott Redmon, Guilford County Webmaster… who is crazy, but fun! He da man when it comes to computer graphics! Many, many props to da man, Scott! No Geek Software of the Week this week! Your e-mails are cool! The Doctor is out!

Canonical (Ubuntu) Expects to be Profitable within Two Years

Ubuntu Linux is BIG! And, the company expects to be a profitable company doing free and Open Source Linux within two years!

Canonical seeks profit from free Ubuntu

“Canonical is the 65-employee start-up behind a popular version of Linux called ‘Ubuntu’. The company is betting that it can win a place in the market using a strategy that dominant Linux seller Red Hat has dropped. Red Hat offers two versions of Linux: Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Fedora Core is free, but relatively untested and unsupported by Red Hat, while RHEL is supported and certified, but must be purchased. With Canonical’s Ubuntu, however, the free and supported versions are identical–the approach Red Hat abandoned in 2003. ‘We believe that Ubuntu should be free to everyone–not just a trial version, but our very best version,’ said Christopher Kenyon, Canonical’s business development manager. The South African company even ships free CDs anywhere in the world. Using that strategy, it expects profitability within 24 months, he added.