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Ubuntu Reaching Out To 16,000 Anime Lovers

Posted by kdawson on from the place-holder dept.

shadowmage13 writes "After months of planning, I am happy to announce finally that the Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community Team will be preparing a booth at the upcoming 2010 Anime Boston convention. We need support from the community to secure a booth and print materials, including copies of the Ubunchu! manga. I really believe the Anime fandom is a perfect match for Ubuntu, as they are by nature very much in line with open source and remix culture."

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  1. Seems like by mxh83 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it would be more productive to fix 9.10 first

    1. Re:Seems like by mxh83 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's bad enough that I would no longer recommend that anyone switch to it. Because if they have a crappy experience, they'll never try linux again.

  2. I Had to Read This 5 Times... by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...but now I think I get it: You're asking us to donate money so that your local Linux User Group can have a booth at your local anime convention.

    Did I get that right? If so, props for chutzpah, my brother...

  3. Re:Yeah, right! by tonycheese · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, I'm sure that's exactly the attitude Linux needs to gain market share: bigotry and elitism. Keep it up guys, year of the Linux is coming any day now.

  4. Problems for anime fans with Linux by abigsmurf · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are some big problems anime fans will have with using Linux: Windows boxes are more capable media players. I generally prefer Zoomplayer and MPC-HC to stuff like VLC (although this is naturally personal preference) but a big issue is the lack of Blu Ray playing capability under Linux.

    There's also gaming, with the exception of Onscript based games, very few visual novels play well with Linux and most Tohou/doujin shooters are Windows only.