One step closer to eLiberatica
I made a bit of free time and printed some stuff (a poster made by Mo, another from Tatica, yet another from me and bussiness cards from Ian for a few ambassadors) to make our booth pretty at eLiberatica next week, hope it will be prettier than the "competition".
And there is a funny story: when I went to the print shop to pick the stuff, it was not yet ready, the guy still had to print and I was shocked to see him with a Linux desktop (shocked as I knew them exclusively Windows+Photoshop+Corel Draw) so I asked about it. It seems like the software for controlling the plotter (an old Xerox something) is made by Caldera and runs exclusively on Linux. So the operator has a dual boot, doing everything in Windows and rebooting in Linux to send the job to the plotter :D
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Something must be done to end the unfair monopoly Linux has on some desktop markets!
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the guy was really unhappy for having to boot into Linux from time to time :D
ReplyDeleteand the application was ugly, made with Motif, so ancient stuff (from Caldera's days...)
I am so happy that we made it to this event! Thanks Nicu i can't wait to see the Event Reports!
ReplyDelete@jsimon: sure, expect event reports and a ton of photos
ReplyDeleteNicu! Those came out awesome!!!!!
ReplyDeleteTactica's looks really slick - it's bled to the edges!
It was printed on a large paper and cut on the edges afterwards.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather place my bet on "the poor thing had no clue Windows can do HPGL/2 too" than on "Xerox made a Linux-only driver" -- even as much as I wish the latter would be true :-)
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@Dexter: probably something like that, they got a black box and have not tried to understand its inner working.
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