Comments on: The Freedom Toaster! http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/180 pragmatism over zeal Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:51:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Solveig Haugland http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/180#comment-1455 Solveig Haugland Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:21:24 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/180#comment-1455 Isn't this totally amazing? This is the kind of stuff that could land Open Source on Oprah. Break into the main stream. With this and the $100 laptops, not only could amazing changes take place in developing countries and, well, everywhere, but soon eveyrone will actually know what Linux and OpenOffice. and Gimp and open source are. Marion Jensen's comment amused me. ;> Isn’t this totally amazing? This is the kind of stuff that could land Open Source on Oprah. Break into the main stream. With this and the $100 laptops, not only could amazing changes take place in developing countries and, well, everywhere, but soon eveyrone will actually know what Linux and OpenOffice. and Gimp and open source are.

Marion Jensen’s comment amused me. ;>

]]> By: Helen King http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/180#comment-819 Helen King Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:45:29 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/180#comment-819 We COMPLETELY agree!! We are currently going through the process of documenting exactly how we made the Freedom Toaster and how is works – from tech specs to exact software. If you to go www.freedomtoaster.org - you can see the beginnings of the documentation and the community around it. Our aim is to give everyone the tools to build, maintain, host and develop Freedom Toasters. Fingers crossed it should be ready to by the end of Jan 06. We COMPLETELY agree!! We are currently going through the process of documenting exactly how we made the Freedom Toaster and how is works – from tech specs to exact software. If you to go http://www.freedomtoaster.org - you can see the beginnings of the documentation and the community around it. Our aim is to give everyone the tools to build, maintain, host and develop Freedom Toasters. Fingers crossed it should be ready to by the end of Jan 06.

]]> By: Jay Pfaffman http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/180#comment-746 Jay Pfaffman Wed, 03 Aug 2005 18:11:20 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/180#comment-746 I burn copies of http://theopencd.org/ for my master's level teacher ed classes. I'm trying to convince my colleague who is in charge of the one tech class required for all teacher ed students to take to do the same. The current version includes OSS for Windows AND is a bootable Ubuntu disk. It may obviate the need for my giving out Knoppix to that class. I too was annoyed that the toaster people don't include the software to make our own. It seems counter-productive. ( Oh, and don't miss Software Freedom Day. Actually, yesterday was the deadline to request free stuff from them.) I burn copies of http://theopencd.org/ for my master’s level teacher ed classes. I’m trying to convince my colleague who is in charge of the one tech class required for all teacher ed students to take to do the same. The current version includes OSS for Windows AND is a bootable Ubuntu disk. It may obviate the need for my giving out Knoppix to that class.

I too was annoyed that the toaster people don’t include the software to make our own. It seems counter-productive.
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Oh, and don’t miss Software Freedom Day. Actually, yesterday was the deadline to request free stuff from them.)

]]> By: Scott Leslie http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/180#comment-668 Scott Leslie Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:12:21 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/180#comment-668 This is cool because it is self-service and conceivably users can pick different configurations and combinations of OSS packages. But as an alternative while you are building one yourself, you could also try sending people to http://www.ubuntulinux.org/shipit/link_view - it takes a little while, but they will ship you, totally free of charge, as many copies of ubuntu linux as you want. I requested 10 copies and then gave my public library 9 of them. This is cool because it is self-service and conceivably users can pick different configurations and combinations of OSS packages. But as an alternative while you are building one yourself, you could also try sending people to http://www.ubuntulinux.org/shipit/link_view - it takes a little while, but they will ship you, totally free of charge, as many copies of ubuntu linux as you want. I requested 10 copies and then gave my public library 9 of them.

]]> By: Marion Jensen http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/180#comment-667 Marion Jensen Tue, 02 Aug 2005 21:05:12 +0000 http://opencontent.org/blog/archives/180#comment-667 This wasn't originally called the French Toaster, by chance, was it? ;) This wasn’t originally called the French Toaster, by chance, was it?

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