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Linux at the Library?

Dean Siren asks: "Has anyone put a copy of Linux at a public or school library, free to check out, copy, install, and return? It's legal, and for many people would be a more convenient way to get ahold of Linux than purchasing or downloading (by putting it in a school library, it's almost as much forced exposure as Channel 1). I'm still talking with my local librarians about it, and wondering if it's an effective way to get 'converts'." What an interesting thought. I may have to check on doing this at my local library and those of you interested in this can check in your neck of the woods, as well. It would be interesting to see how such an idea is received.

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  1. Yeah, Linux ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, I installed Linux on the school's library computers and they expelled me for a week for hacking!

    1. Re:Yeah, Linux ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You, my friend, are a retard. You should have used OpenBSD!

    2. Re:Yeah, Linux ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yes, I installed Linux on the school's library computers and they expelled me for a week for hacking!

      You don't sound like a hacker to me... you sound like a TERRORIST!

    3. Re:Yeah, Linux ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      And you sound like an unfunny dickwad.

  2. Re:My library by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your library sucks, man. My library has adult books and a porn mags section - much more fun, and not as sad/nerdy!

  3. Re:a couple years ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm not surprised they didn't employ a smelly, self-centric retard like you. Who needs lunatics raving on about Linux in a library? Not me, and not anybody (except for the sad, sad Linux faggots, perhaps)

  4. Re:Tulsa Public Library has books, but no media. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    More like, it would be doubtful because who wants to stock shitty things like that in a public library. It would be like walking into to your local brothel and finding the floor littered with fresh turds!

  5. Re:especially beneficial... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Surely you have better things to talk about than how to best copy Linux onto a CD.

    In other words: FUCK OFF AND GET A LIFE

  6. Re:a couple years ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Go and fuck yourself.

  7. Re:a couple years ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You must be stupid then. Hopefully this diagram will help:

    -\-o\
    L-/\8-

    You see?

  8. Re:a couple years ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Did you post all of the anti-Linux comments on this thread? They're hilarious, I can't imagine why anyone would want to install a shit OS with shitty browsers in a public place that people use to access online banking, etc - shit only a good browser can do. Anyway, why don't you get an account, you're really funny and I'd like to track your comments in a thread like this. I have an account, but I don't want to lose any of my 50 karma points for this post :)

  9. Re:Best distro??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow, flamebait... Guess it's always best to post anonymously when you don't have anything useful to say (as did the person that prompted the flamebait)...

  10. Well... by ringbarer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jew off, you babbing cock-stick!

    --
    "Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
  11. Re:a couple years ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I can't imagine why anyone would want to install a shit OS with shitty browsers

    What year is your brain stuck in again? Oh, sorry, you're just that retarded. My bad.

    in a public place that people use to access online banking, etc

    What kind of a dumb shit uses a public terminal to do such things? Besides yourself, I mean?
    I think your brain needs to be fdisk'ed and fsck'ed into oblivion. Maybe you could ask your sister to help you with that, I've heard she's more well-hung than you are.

    Anyway, why don't you get an account

    Because of retarded shits like yourself. If you can't understand that, just let me know and I'll attempt to relay that concept to you in words of fewer syllables.

    but I don't want to lose any of my 50 karma points

    No, you don't get karma points by linking to goatse.cx and whacking off. If you've got an account, it's likely at -50 points. Stop putting on airs, we all know you are a fat, stinking, worthless waste of flesh who should be lit aflame at the earliest convenient (for us) opportunity.

  12. Re:a couple years ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, I did. But it's not worth getting an account to do it. I was just pissed off and decided to take my anger out on the Linux idiots at Slashdot.

  13. Damnit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damnit, can't you guys just shut up? I'm not surprised Slashdot is swarming with 'trolls' with you lot around.