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Australia, China and Snowboard Shops Use Linux

Posted by michael on from the GNU/unstoppable dept.

Miscellaneous stories about Linux usage today: the Australian government has allowed (but not required) its agencies to switch to Linux. China is apparently going to go all-Linux for the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing. And business2.com has a story about chain of snowboarding shops (and other businesses) deploying Linux cash registers and desktops.

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  1. Snowboarding shops using Linux... by Xpilot · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...and the mental image I get is a penguin on a snowboard. I think I've seen a rendered image of that somewhere...

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  2. Re:What are they running? by Graspee_Leemoor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hehe, I got all defensive for a minute because I read it as "piece of shit software".

    graspee

  3. 2008 by hdparm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Too bad it's summer games. For the winter olyimpics mascot choice would be easy :)

  4. Oh, okay.... by Lagrange5 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I almost thought it said...

    Australia, China Snowboard Shops Use Linux

    ...and I quickly thought,

    Wait, there are snowboard shops in China???

    Hey, you never know. Someday...

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    "Folks just call him Buckethead." -- Les Claypool
  5. Important news for Bill and Steve by pubjames · · Score: 4, Funny


    I've got some information for Bill Gates and Steve Ballamer that could help them save money. If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, can you please pass the information on?

    You can get some really great deals on international flights by booking a "round the world" ticket. With these tickets you can stop off at a large number of different destinations on a trip around the world and pay a single low price. A friend of mine paid about $2000 to stop at 40 different destinations on five continents!

    I hope this helps.

  6. Sportmart! by astrosmash · · Score: 3, Funny
    Up here in Canada Sportmart runs what I assumed to be Linux on its cash registers. It was definitely Gnome with the Sawfish window manager, default 1.2 theme.

    At the time I figured it was "native" (svga) gnome, since who would be crazy enough to run X on a cash register, but does svga gnome use a window manager? Yikes.
    "Okay, with tax the total comes to 75 dollars and... whoops! X crashed. Hold on a minute while I hack on XF86Config."
    "Hey, listen. The cash register is thrashing again. Skate or Die dude!"
    Well, as long as their GUI isn't rendered in OpenGL I guess they'd be okay.
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