{"id":1177,"date":"2007-07-21T08:38:06","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T12:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2007-07-21T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T12:40:09","slug":"wcoj-radio-show-ubuntu-as-a-replacement-for-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2007\/07\/wcoj-radio-show-ubuntu-as-a-replacement-for-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"WCOJ Radio Show &#8211; Ubuntu as a replacement for Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned previously, Alex Launi and I were scheduled to do a radio show on Saturday the 14th on WCOJ 1420 AM&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcoj.com\/index.php?pr=Computer_Corner\">Computer Corner<\/a>. Well the show went on and I now have a copy of it to share!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geekosophical.net\/misc\/pleia_on_the_radio.ogg\">Computer Corner: Ubuntu, with Special Guests Alex Launi and Lyz Bevilacqua<\/a> (Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/geekosophical.net\">Melissa Draper<\/a> for hosting the file)<\/p>\n<p>All things considered (me not being terribly familiar with the format or what questions were going to be asked, a show taking place at 8AM on a Saturday, me being slightly nervous about it all), I think it went very well. I could have answered the &#8220;origins of Linux&#8221; question a lot better, but what can you do? As the subject of this entry states the program went in the direction of Ubuntu being a replacement for Vista, and although we did briefly touch upon the fact it can be run on older hardware, I wish we had stressed that fact.<\/p>\n<p>The best news is that after the show the hosts were pleased and asked if we&#8217;d come back in a few months &#8211; cool! We&#8217;ll be able to touch upon things we missed in the next program. Plus, the one host who hadn&#8217;t tried it was quite excited, and on Sunday he contacted us and said (after a bit of an issue with his very complex machine) that he was going to build a PC specifically to run Ubuntu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned previously, Alex Launi and I were scheduled to do a radio show on Saturday the 14th on WCOJ 1420 AM&#8217;s Computer Corner. Well the show went on and I now have a copy of it to share! Computer Corner: Ubuntu, with Special Guests Alex Launi and Lyz Bevilacqua (Thanks to Melissa Draper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}