106 Install-Fests At Once · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 3, 2005 @08:30AM from the latinamerica-and-then-the-world dept.

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.

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Re:Yesterday, a free software install-fest happene by FidelCatsro · 2005-04-03 08:53 · Score: 2, Informative

Well , i think the people in those south american countrys probably did notice..
I can not imagine many turning on there pc and going "Aye carumba .. Where is windows"

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