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Re: www.linux.org.il
Hey,
why do you list Amiga among those really exotic OS ??? Amiga is a great
computer and not somebody told me that there are no Amigas in Israel I'd
have brought mine with me when I came on alia and not bought a bloody PC
!!! Till I came here I only had a XT at home (a slot-card in the Amiga
:-)) to make my homework in Turbo Pascal 3.0 !
Schlomo
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> 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!)
>
>