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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wtf by Anonymous Coward · 2005-10-04 09:01 · Score: 0, Troll

1. Linux cannot save a city.
2. Linux cannot restore people's lives.
3. Linux cannot drain the city under water.
4. Linux cannot build homes or buildings.
5. Linux cannot bring your love one back to life.

Stop trying to fix everything with Linux it's just another OS. It won't fix anything it would just help along the way. Nobody really cares if it runs Linux or Windows 3.1. I think most people would rather care to contact there families instead of worrying what's running it.