Re: [Staffslug] What are YOU doing to promote FOSS and Linux?

On 23/07/07, Kris Douglas <webbox.uk(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: I have shown the company i am working for that their systems can run on I wasn't going to add anything further to the thread TBH I don't really like this old chestnut question you see it over and over again on mailing lists and forums and always makes me wonder whether its; A. Some sort of challenge. B. Some sort of trumpet blowing opportunity. C. A genuine interest. Having read the the posts so far I reckon its a probably a genuine inquisitive question. I attended a Sophos anti virus training session yesterday, now for the past four years Sophos have offered a Linux version which got me thinking about this thread so I'll start a new thread in a while along the same lines *Can paid for Linux applications be classed as promoting Linux?* Getting back to this thread. 1. Given away a Laptop to a LUG for use with demonstrations and training. 2. Given away a Server to a LUG member for development purposes. 3. Given away loads and loads of hardware (Monitors, cards, HDD's ect) 4. Given away loads of 'Boxed versions of Linux operating systems'. 5. Given away *Mint condition Linux/open source books. 6. Physically helped loads of people install Linux on their machines. 7. Have membership of far too many lists and forums and IRC channels (helping if I can) 8. Written some HOWTO's 9. Member of two development lists/teams (Ifolders and Covide) 10. Create VM Linux based appliances supplied to VMware website for download by anyone. 11. Sell Open source solutions 12. Run some Linux based machines here at work. 13. Run dedicated Linux boxes and laptops at home. 13. Run a Linux advocacy website at my own expense. Probably lots of other stuff to but I'm bored with listing everything now. Enjoy -- Regards Dick Turpin Arch Linux is an independent i686-optimized community distribution for intermediate and advanced Linux users. Utilising a Rolling Release System packages are regularly updated and an ISO release is just a snapshot to the stable packages at that time. So there's no need for a fresh install the command 'pacman –Syu' upgrades the whole system.