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106 Install-Fests At Once
TrixX writes "Yesterday, a free software install-fest happened in 106 cities in 13 Latin American Countries, in a coordinated event called FLISOL (Latinamerican Free Software Install Fest). This event was coordinated by about 40 user groups. In most places, different distributions of GNU/Linux were installed, and also Free software for Windows (like OpenOffice.org and Mozilla Firefox). At the time there is a partial count of about 1000 assistants and hundreds of computers installed, and the count is not complete yet." We mentioned this event a few weeks back; now that it's happened, I'd like to read accounts from some of the participants about their impressions of the events.
Yesterday, a free software install-fest happened in 106 cities in 13 Latin American Countries, and no one in particular noticed a thing.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
This shows what I've been thinking for a long time... Free software has a huge potential in poor countries, that has the need for a IT system working on a old infrastructure, and in this field Linux/FLOSS plays very nice. Imagine a win2k3 server running on 5 year old hardware? No, but then imagine a GNU/Linux server, serving web pages or such? Yeah, it works!
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Crap... and what about actually stopping the perpetual Windows installfest we're having at work?
Fortunately, I'm a programmer/sysadmin and I don't even touch user support. The support guys, though, get 897984789798 calls that "your program stopped working, fix it" from customers per day. And in basically all cases, it's some random Windows machine crappied beyond all recognition.
The day all those small businesses around start getting it that, indeed, there are better, cheaper alternatives other than Windows, and we're not simply preaching some scam to get more money, I'll be a really happy camper.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Well , i think the people in those south american countrys probably did notice.. .. Where is windows"
I can not imagine many turning on there pc and going "Aye carumba
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A small number of machines in a few South American countries owned by intelligentsia became Linux boxes. The world is now a better place.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
We must all now bow our heads in thanks for your intriguing and original concepts. Without people like you, Slashdot would be full of idiots repeating the same useless garbage every day, in every story.
wow , were you born like this or did life drain all hope from you..Every victory is important , and 1000 computer users in South America is a larger % than 1000 in the west
Can we get an idea of turnout?
Were there 106 install-fests attended by 212 people, the two guys hosting each installfest?
Where do you get this numbe, 1000? It is a significant but SMALL number, but still, where did you get it?
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
I imagine it was considerbly more than 1000 , as well there was 1000+ staff which is probably where you got the number .
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
What surprises me about install-fests (at least in the US) is the level of hardware required to install the version of Linux the installers bring.
For poorer countries shouldn't they be targeting a typical Pentium I system?
After they realized that Linux doesn't have a start button, tomorrow there will be a free software uninstall-fest happened in 106 cities in 13 Latin American Countries, in a coordinated event called FLUSOL (Latinamerican Free Software Uninstall Fest).
I checked the FLISOL page a couple of weeks ago, but I completely forgot about the event. Probably because all Mexico City sites were too far away (there were no installfests in the south of the city). And I DID have the time to go to one, maybe help with the installs. Although the real help would have been promoting it so that more people would go.
I bet there were very few people here, since no one seems to give a flying fuck about intellectual property, copyright theft, piracy, etc. and you can get a copy of Windows for $5 USD on almost any subway station.
Go hug some trees.
Crap, I'm in Quito, Ecuador and would have loved to help at the event here, but I missed the original announcement! Grrr.