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[Don Hensley]

Hi Jacob,
I think you have a good idea there, except that, so far as I know, Shockwave 
is closed proprietary software, possibly not the best thing for a GNU/Linux 
web site.

I think we should, as the saying goes "Eat our own dog food". 

Adobe is talking about releasing the source for Flex and some of the SDK 
tools, but it is not clear just when, nor exactly what license they may use.

Flex has a basic problem though, in that a web site developed in Flex requires 
some special ports to be open... a problem in and of it's self, for people 
like me. And then the Flex platform is likely to sill require some non free 
software to actually deliver content.

There are other ways of doing highly interactive stuff, but I think it might 
be best if they were developed on our own servers.

The reason I say this is that for the FSF to grant people access to their 
servers would no doubt be very problematic. They are not set up as a host, as 
in virtual hosting, and any access to the back end routines for serving 
interactive pages would be very difficult for them (I think - John can 
correct me if I've guessed wrong here).

Have you any particular GNU /Linux Distro's in mind?

I'd think one we should include by default, as it were, is  gNewSense
http://www.gnewsense.org/

It allows you, among other things, to build your own Distro.

Pretty cool, no?

Don.
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 On Friday 27 April 2007 11:47 am, Jacob Maynard wrote:
Hello to all,

I think anonymous is taking to us a little more. I've been thinking about
it, and I think that the campaign for BadVista needs a more focused
direction. I also think that the site for BadVista needs to be arranged in
a different way.

My thoughts are that we need to provide more information about Linux on
the site that actually pertains to your average user. I think that a
"council" should decide a couple of distributions, focus on them, and
explain them in detail. My thoughts even went to creating interactive
tutorials via Shockwave, or something like that, to demonstrate what it
looks like to use Linux. Of course, this "council" could just be everyone
coming to a decision on all of this stuff.

One of the major problems is that we need to get the "super-geek" image
out of everyone's head when the name Linux is mentioned. It needs to be
associated with everyone.

I thought I'd throw this out there and get everyone's opinion on the
matter. If you have an opinion, please let me know. I have become quite
attuned to this issue in the last couple of days.

Jacob

> Hi guys,
>   I sent an email before this to say that i have posted an article on my
> blog. Now some anonymous guy is commenting on it and I'd be very much
> thankful if some of you guys can visit my blog and comment on that post
> answering the anonymous guy's questions, because I find it hard to answer
> some questions. the link for that post is
> http://tuxv.blogspot.com/2007/04/bad-vista.html
>
> cheers
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