Which technology suffers most from technology racism, Windows or Linux?

Samba’s Jeremy Allison stars as a very entertaining guest with Don Marti on the Linuxcast podcast show. (Here’s a couple of one-liners from Allison to illustrate the point that this podcast is entertaining: “The new Samba 3.2 … It’s wonderful! It sings, it dances, it makes toast! We’ve been working on it for over a year … I think this thing has been gestating longer than an elephant.”)

Samba is a Windows/file print authentication server. You can stick it on your Linux/Unix boxes and it will allow the Windows network to view them as if they were part of the Windows network. It allows Windows clients (XP, Vista) to login to these non-Windows boxes, too.

Samba, if you recall, was also in the midst of the Microsoft/Linux open source/licensing mess. Samba was one of the first highly publicized third-parties to license Windows protocols from Microsoft as a result of the European Union applying thumbscrews to Microsoft to make such licensing available and affordable.

The two discuss all sorts of things beyond the new features in Samba 3.2 (like clustering). For instance, do you think that Windows (particularly Vista) is the main victim of technology racism? Not so. There is a trend known as “Linux hatred” and the two tackle that topic. Plus they talk about SMB encryption, why Vista catches the blame for Samba’s bugs, Microsoft OOXML, and the upcoming LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. (49:05)

Listen:

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