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Re: www.linux.org.il
Interesting, but i have a more simple idea - just make several copies of
a Linux distribution of your choice and offer (maybe for the price of
the media itself) them to everyone that:
a. Says the word "Linux", especially in sentences like: "what the
#$%^ is Linux?" and "I heard about this thing called Linux..."
b. Telling you how bad Windoze(TM) are.
c. Has a known history of "exotic" OS and machines (e.g. OS/2, Amiga,
CP/M.. ;-)
It's a GREAT way to spread the word. People like to get freebies ;-)
And if we're talking about propaganda:
The place I work in needed a good reliable web server, to be located in
the US, and all maintenance to be done remotely. My boss wanted
Windoze(TM). Me and my co-worker were VERY against the idea and let him
know that so in the end we did install NT + IIS on the site but we
backed it up by a good old Linux + Apache. Guess what?
It has been one(!) week since the NT went "live" and already we had 1
web server crash and 1 (after restarting it) refusal of the web server
to write the log correctly... in both cases the Linux machine saved our
butts by working like a charm.
If we only had a good way to connect the linux based web server with an
ODBC database I know I could convince my boss to drop the NT .. ;-)
Gilad.
Elisheva Alexander wrote:
>
> Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> > well, with the article in "Yediot Ahronot" about Linux today (double
> > spread) and the fact that they gave the web site address and spelled it
> > correctly I surmise that the new site will soon get many hits.. ;l-)
>
> you know, i never noticed an article about Linux or GNU in Captain
> Internet. it's funny, because they seem to whine alot about Microsoft
> taking over the world. but they dont do much about it.
>
> and if the propaganda issue was brought up...
>
> once a friend of mine and i had a plan how to get more people to use linux
> (it didn't go very far, like most plans, but anyway...)
> it was called Tree Project, or Bunny Project, or something like that.
> the idea was that anyone that wanted to join this project, besides using
> Linux, would have to help (at least) two of his/her friends install linux,
> and eventually get them to join the project too.
> we had a neat logo and everything...
>
> does anyone think this idea is practical?
>
> --eli7
>
> (multiplying linux users at bunny rate of 2^n. muhahaha!)