QuickieWorld

chris wrote in to tell us that Registration for the 3^rd Annual Atlanta Linux Showcase is open. First 100 registrations get an OS-Wars T-Shirt (I have one, they rock) brazilian brain sent us an English Translation of an Interview with Alfredo Kojima of WindowMaker fame. Scott wrote in to tell us that the July issue of Daemon News is online and Jim wrote in to tell us that the July issue of The FreeBSD 'zine is out too. geophile wrote in to tell us that Propoganda 10 is out. More excellent background images to consume your free RAM. Very yum. erios23 notified us of a new toy on jwz's webpage. BluBall sent us a Slashdot reference in Salon's Silicon Funnies. Spoofs Linux and Slashdot and even me a bit I guess (well, my name anyway). And finally chrisd (who may be biased on this one) wrote in to say that VA is one of the 10 best companies to work for (According to ZD) ranking amongst Replay, Nokia and Novell. I suspect that Nerf has something to do with it.

Comments

Implications of the T-Shirt

[craw]

That T-Shirt design really bugs me. I won't get into details but I believe that most of you can figure this out.

Darth Vader is Luke's father.

Leia and Luke are brother and sister.

C-3PO was built by Anakin/Darth Vader (hmmm, embrace and extend perhaps?)

The implications of all of this staggers the mind. Can you see the scene at the next Comdex when Bill looks over and says, "Linus, I am your father!" Of course, I look forward to the day when I hear, "You were right, you were right about me. Tell your sister, you were right." The connection between Leia and Luke is also interesting. Hidden at birth, but really related. At last we know the truth. The end of the OS naming wars is over.

About that shirt: Quite ugly...

[Hanno]

Check out the big version at http://www.linuxshowcase.org/shirts/als_sw_parody. jpg

I must admit, I often think that the open source community desperately needs talented graphic designers. While this image is a neat idea, it simply looks like it was done by an advanced amateur. But not by a professional...

Same with many other designs. Check out the results of any recent "logo design" contest for open source projects. 95% of the entries are very very bad combinations of cliparts stolen from other images.

Think of the surfing penguin from the Beowulf project. That's a _really_ good design! Or the other penguin from the GGI project. Folks who have this talent should be encouraged to do more designs.

P.S.: No, I don't pretend that I can do better. There's a reason why I don't do graphics design. But there are people out there who can. We need to ask them to contribute.