Revolution OS

Christopher A. Bier chris.bier at cymor.com
Mon Apr 7 20:28:32 CDT 2003


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I got my copy on last Thursday.  It seemed, to me, that they explained
bits and pieces of the philosophy, but not all at once.  I will bring
my laptop, and we can use it to play it.

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 02:50, Jim Herrmann wrote:
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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