Revolution OS

siplewer at juno.com siplewer at juno.com
Sat Apr 5 15:11:31 CST 2003


I got mine delivered the other day, too. Haven't had a chance to watch it
yet, though. I've got a DVD player on my laptop, at least running on the
Windows side.

Jeff
On Sat, 05 Apr 2003 02:50:19 -0600 Jim Herrmann <kclug at ItDepends.com>
writes:
> I got my copy of "Revolution OS" today!  Most appropriately, I
> watched  it for the first time tonight using Xine on my Mandrake box.
It's a
> wealth of great background on how it all started.  My kids hopefully
> will like it, and I'm going to try to get my wife to watch some of
> it.
>  It really doesn't get too technical, so it's accessable by the
> non-technical like my wife.  It delves into a lot of the history and
> philosophy of open source.  RMS gets quite a bit of face time.  It's
>
> also nice to put faces, voices, and mannerisms to all these names
> I've  been reading about for the past couple of years.
> I'm thinking I will bring it to the next KCLUG meeting and if anyone
> has  a DVD laptop, we can play it and watch it.  I suppose I could
bring
> a  player and hook it up to that TV in the room, or the library
> probably  has a DVD player we could hook up.  At any rate, we should be
able
> to  watch it during the meeting somehow.
>
> Anyway, I recommend that you all buy it just to support the cause.
> :-)
>
> BTW, the Linux Fish looks pretty good.  It appears to be a shark.
>
> Peace,
> Jim
>




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