The "I'm Linux" Video Contest

http://video.linuxfoundation.org/category/video-category/-linux-foundation-video-contest

by mudge • 18 years ago

10 21 18 years ago

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tedshroyer• 18 years ago

Maybe it's because I've been up all night dredging through PayPal's api docs trying to figure out what version it's at, but as soon as I saw this I thought about a bunch of penguins ordering different things in a Baskin-Robbins. Linux... It's like ice cream. There's a flavor for you.

Prrometheus2• 18 years ago

Except for there are 300 flavors, all named in a foreign language.

Kyderdog2• 18 years ago

No its more like you have 300 flavor that have all melted because you couldn't get your wifi and video card to talk.

m0nty5• 18 years ago

"Hi, I'm Linux. Lots of stuff will almost work, but not quite, and that's all part of the fun. I can sometimes do WPA but frankly it's going to be easier on both of us if you use WEP. I like to pretend I'm easy-to-use, but you need to be picky about which hardware you run me on - or I might not work. I can auto-update software, but sometimes we'll take a trip to dependency hell which will take hours to recover from - think of it as a form of intense mental workout. I've got a bunch of programs which will almost do what you want, but it won't be long before you're missing your old favourites like Office and Photoshop. There are lots of competing versions of me, and sometimes you'll get dragged into meaningless debates about which is best."

I use Linux every day, but sometimes I get a bit jaded about this kind of thing.

briancooley2• 18 years ago

Wow. If my wife were an operating system, this would be her description.

Except for the part about missing your old favourites. I think.

Maybe I should make a video based on your comment...

m0nty5• 18 years ago

It's not meant to be a nasty comment (I've been using Linux since 1994) but I've never liked using Linux as a desktop system. Personally I think there's more entertainment to be had from spoofing all these "Hi, I'm [brand name]" videos than actually making serious ones :)

nailer4• 18 years ago

'I use Linux every day, but sometimes I get a bit jaded about this kind of thing.'

Perhaps you should be pickier about your hardware, and select a laptop that ships with your OS.

I have no issues with WPA or suspend, ever. Ubuntu, as a large and major distro with many package sources, doesn't really get dependency hell either.

m0nty5• 18 years ago

"you need to be picky about which hardware you run me on - or I might not work" ... "Perhaps you should be pickier about your hardware"

;-)

mountain_man• 18 years ago

meh, I bought a desktop that shipped with ubuntu. Changing users makes it crash. My keyboard didn't work. Flash works about 80% of the time.

On my thinkpad, which I installed myself, suspend only works if I disabled the nvidea drivers. It really isn't great yet.

Prrometheus2• 18 years ago

The french one looked fun and well-done, though I couldn't understand what they were saying.

The first one on the page with the music and still images is unintentionally hilarious. They cycle through pictures of people that I guess are involved with Linux, with the caption "I'm Linux". Probably around 95% of the people shown are white men. There is only a single woman.

Well, two points for honesty.

kqr2• 18 years ago

I wonder if the Tron Guy will try out:

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Image:Linux2.jpg

Kyderdog2• 18 years ago

I like the one about desktops... since its wrong...OS X has spaces which is the same as desktops http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spaces.html

MrRage• 18 years ago

>The winner will receive a free trip to Tokyo, Japan to participate in the Linux Foundation Japan Linux Symposium in October 2009.

Cool idea, and a trip to Tokyo sounds nice. But it's hard to get excited about going to a symposium.

SwellJoe• 18 years ago

So, does it strike anyone else as the first time "I'm X" makes any sense? You can't be Mac or Windows...because Apple and Microsoft will sic a pack of highly trained attack lawyers on you, if you try. But with Linux you really can be a part of it. Anyone who has ever helped someone on a mailing list is Linux (where "Linux" is as good a mascot for the overall Open Source experience as anything). Anyone who has submitted a patch to their favorite project is Linux. Anyone who has burned a copy of a Ubuntu or Fedora or CentOS or Debian for a friend to try out is Linux.

There are many things you can say about Linux that aren't flattering (m0nty covered them sufficiently already, and though I disagree with many of them, or feel like it's unfair without following up with, "Of course, both Mac and Windows also have an equal or greater number of seriously irritating quirks and flaws, but I already know how to work around those so I don't complain about it."), but Linux is a community, a movement, and a set of freedoms and capabilities that Apple and Microsoft simply can't deliver on. Linux and Open Source is so vastly over-powering in that regard, that it's...umm...I dunno...astonishing to me that so many folks focus on the little nits (without actually doing anything to fix them--since with Linux, you actually have that power). If Linux were less capable than the alternatives, I would understand it better...but there are so many things I do in Linux every day, that would be impossible, require a huge investment in third party tools, or otherwise simply not be as nice on Windows or Mac OS X.

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