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Promotional Posters for Open Source and Linux?
SysKoll asks: "I belong to an LUG (Linux Users Group) and I am trying to increase the visibility of Linux and Open Source for the general public. I googled for several hours and I noticed that almost nobody seems to offer Linux and OSS promotional posters anymore. (I already have the 'Good evening Mr Gates, I'll be your server tonight' giant Tux poster). So do you have a recommendation for OSS and Linux posters, preferably suitable for the general public?"
It would be good if an artist could make some professional looking poster/flier advertisements of Linux in general (not a specific distribution). Microsoft and other companies all have very professional looking propaganda, I'd like some of our own :)
http://www.google.com/search?q=promotional+linux+p osters
http://www.slackware.org
If anyone know where to get these posters I would be grateful. Some of you will remember it. Lots of knights and a Wizard in the center. An updated one featuring some of the Linux distros would be nice too. However I think Linux was mentioned in the first.
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
You can get posters from OpenBSD online shop. 9 very cool posters for OpenBSD/OpenSSH - the artwork is superb. It's a shame that there wasn't a poster for the 2.6 release's "Script Kitty & fish bowl" art... by far the best ever.
I'll estimate two weeks after this post until ThinkGeek has something...
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You'll be financing the best OSS in the world and will help Theo forget the Darpa Grant.
The NetBSD Advocacy page has some posters available for print-it-yourself.
- Hubert
Ain't /. got many posters? (This story has got only 11 comments tho')
I don't have any specific recommendations for existing posters, but with a little artistic skill, you can always make your own, using a service like cafepress.com. I do that with the logo I created for my LUG; I opened a storefront on cafepress.com, uploaded a large JPEG graphic of my logo, and applied it to stuff like T-shirts, baseball caps, posters, and bumper stickers. Then my members can order the items they want, and cafepress.com handles all the production and shipping details.
and, they have no posters.
This might not look good as a big poster, but it is quite fun. Bill G Discovers Linux
I know that poster well, by the sound of it. It's hanging on the wall in my mentor's office.
It's an army of BSD-family on one side, an army of SystemV-family on the other side, and in the middle (not far from the wizard(s)), trampled underfoot, pierced with many blades, completely overlooked, dressed in innocent white, is the user.
It's a reminder of what to avoid, not an advertisement. But perhaps you knew that and didn't say in your post.
(The poster is also chock full of *nix references: there's a cat walking around, some of the soldiers are armed with pipes, etc, etc.)
Predates Linux by quite a bit.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
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I've sent some of the EPS files to a friend at a printing company. He printed them on a hi-res plotter on slick, finished poster paper. Looks great.
I especially like "Why are we hiding from the police daddy? Because we use vi son, they use emacs."
Who said Penguins can't fly. The best way to educate the public is to tell them that a 64 bit os will be available with Flying Penguins much sooner and cheaper than XP pro, and to learn how to run 64 Penguins is not a big hassle. If the camera manufactures come on board, with Linux, which might be the case soon, because of cheap 64 bit processing, then watch out. Linux will be in poster heaven. How much will video editing and photo processing software cost the manufacturers to licence for XP? Lets see, will the average consumer be willing spend $300 on a scaled down version of PhotoShop, $1200 for a decent motion/still camera, $400 for a scaled down version of FinalCut pro, and another 2-3 thousand for a Windows computer that can run 64 bits. Or will they turn to Apple and Linux because the software and hardware is already available, and built in.
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
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As I see it the old Irix chips are hindered by old outdated arch, thats why they suck. I was refering to the new 64 bit specs that are showing up on Hammer. With the ability to natively run (without emulation) 32 bit code AMD has got a big advantage for the future of desktop imaging, sound and motion processing. One will not have to software stream old apps. New native 64 will smoke. My wife is part of a medical imaging software implimentation, and the biggest problem is the speed at which high res images can be viewed through 32 bit work stations.
The new 32 bit Windows desk tops are necessary, only because the client patient data process software is strictly Microsoft based, and the cost of 64 bit Microsoft work stations is out of the question. However the diagnostic quality image viewers are exclusively 64 bit image transfer, and rely on Linux based image transfer software from the individual CTs, Exray, etc. Even if one were to convert to all MS NT servers the system still would not deliver diagnostic quality to the PC desk tops, because the Microsoft based servers are just too slow and not reliable enough for situations like ER real time imaging transfer and storage. The reason for this is that the code added by Microsoft image file transfer formats usually causes havock on the ram time translation of image data files to work stations, and is way too slow for Emergency Medical Imaging.
Microsoft excels (pun intended) at buisiness data solutions but is way behind in digital image processing and transfer. The images that are viewed on the 32bit Windows desk tops therefore are scaled down from diagnostic image quality and are only used for chart reference.
OH THE SHAME I fell off the wagon and use sigs again!
I agree that AMD seems to be pulling ahead of Intel with Hammer, though the 386 backward compatibility is more important to proprietary Windows apps than to Free *nix ones. It seems like a very cool architecture.
What amazes me is how both Intel and AMD have managed to evolve x86 into a modern architecture without sacrificing backward compatibility. The MIPS RISC CPU's in the SGI machines can't compete with x86 chips any more, though the architecture is much younger.
Apparently, it was possible to incorporate the design gains of RISC while keeping the external interface the same. Of course, the most power efficient chips are still RISC.
google and slackware.
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