Creating Live Linux Distributions For Disasters

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 4, 2005 @08:43AM from the penguins-on-the-line dept.

phaedo00 writes "The folks over at Ars Technica have an article up about Hannibal's experience volunteering in relief efforts and how a custom built Linux distribution can help people solve social and disaster related problems without costing an arm and a leg. From the article: 'I spent the two weeks after Katrina struck working with volunteers in Lake Charles, Louisiana and across the Internet to build, maintain, and upgrade such labs in two of southwest Louisiana's largest Red Cross shelters. The present article is a short introduction to one of the most important categories of tools to emerge from the efforts of myself and others to meet the shelters' need for free, zero-maintenance, bulletproof, Internet-connected computers: the shelter lab LiveCD build.'" Article partially paid-only.

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Re:Get some PRIORITIES!!!! by Slashdot_Gandhi · 2005-10-04 08:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If Iraq can be responsible for 911 then Linux can be used for disaster management (instead of FEMA).
Give me a roof by dj245 · 2005-10-04 09:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I think the priority should be a roof over their heads, a table to eat on, and some jobs to put the food on the table.
Universal internet for hurricane victims comes dead last on my list. These people were knocked back to the 1800s. Let bring them back to indoor plumbing before we go all crazy with teh intarweb.

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Be careful... by Anonymous+Squonk · 2005-10-04 12:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Linus' baby will be old enough to drink soon...