[BadVista Advocate] My blog

Sat Apr 28 08:47:39 EDT 2007

Hi all,

It would be good if the bad vista site displays the bad things about vista
in an 'eye catching way' in it's homepage. And to remove the geeky image out
of linux for the use of beginners, maybe an introduction to non-geeky
distro's would be good (SuSE, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Kubuntu).

As for interactive things i think java applets will be the answer. And if we
can make the bad vista site look cool, I mean adding some stylish images.
And the best thing to do will be to point out the BAD things about DRM in a
horrible way ;)

And when i read anonymouseh!'s comments i think that there is a great issue
with the myth about device drivers ( I say this is a myth because he seems
to be thinking that all the drivers for all the devices hould be
configured). Actually the only problems are with wireless network cards,
fingerprint devices and stuff like that.

And another point is that the console, windows users (after using their
childish command prompt) seems to be thinking of the console as an advanced,
geeky thing (Now i can't live without the command line) so we must point out
things like these and linux will conquer for sure.

Let's make linux better :)

Yasith

On 4/28/07, Don Hensley <Don at donhensley.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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.
> ***************************************
> 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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