"Linux Devil"
Categorized as The "We're Linux" Video Contest
If you've been alive and aware of mass media over the last twelve months, you've probably seen television
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commercials from Apple and Microsoft touting their operating system.
From Apple's ubiquitous "I'm a Mac" to Jerry Seinfeld to Microsoft's
"I'm a PC" retort, operating system commercials have been flooding the
airways. Except one OS has been notably absent – Linux.
While the Linux Foundation would love to spend millions promoting Linux
on TV, it's simply not our style (or in our budget). Even more
importantly, Linux isn't a top-down, commercially controlled operating
system. It's a grassroots product of mass collaboration. That's why
we're sponsoring a community contest to create a Linux video that
showcases just what Linux means to those who use it, and hopefully
inspires many to try it.
The winner will receive a free trip to Tokyo, Japan to participate in
the Linux Foundation Japan Linux Symposium in October 2009. The winning
video will also be unveiled at the Linux Foundation's Collaboration
Summit in San Francisco on April 8, 2009.
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- January 19, 2009
- A commercial we made for the Linux Foundation competition. All in good fun.
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another security implementation currently being used.
Learn a little about libc attacks stemming from buffer overflows and
the canaries that serve to protect the stack in these emergencies.
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This third installment in our five-part series of videos featuring
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Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat developer and the lead contributor and
maintainer of the GNU C Library (glibc), is a discussion of memory
allocation errors. Specifically Uli covers exploits related to linked
lists and the heuristics set to catch these errors. He also discusses
what that means for the end user.
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This is video that we captured during Knowledge Festival at
At the Spring 2008 Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, Linux business
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leaders discuss the state of the platform and strategies for the future
of Linux. Panelists included Marten Mickos of Sun Microsystems, Javier
Soltero of Hyperic, Larry Augustin - Investor and Open Source Start up
Veteran, Dean Drako of Barracuda, Steven Grandchamp of OpenLogic and
Kyle Shank of Persai.
The Spring 2008 Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit took place from
April 8-10 in Austin, Texas at the UT Austin Supercomputing Center, and
was hosted by IBM.
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The Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) project introduced Mandatory Access Control(MAC)
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to mainstream computing. Designed to meet a wide range of general
security requirements, SELinux is the first broadly deployed
implementation of MAC security.
It helped Linux achieve what is considered to be the highest possible
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system.
The SELinux project has demonstrated how an open, collaborative
approach to security
can lead to innovation unmatched by traditional proprietary schemes.
While initially
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Mastering IPTables
At the Spring 2008 Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit Bdale Garbee,
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the Chief Technologist for OpenSource at Hewlett Packard gives his
opinions on the state of the Linux 'market', his thoughts on what needs
to be focused on in 2008 and more. The Spring 2008 Linux Foundation
Collaboration Summit took place from April 8-10 in Austin, Texas at the
UT Austin Supercomputing Center, and was hosted by IBM.
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Haha. That is a good one. I was waiting for the BSD devil to arrive, but lo it was Tux!
Thanks! :) Come to think of it, I should have used the little BSD devil guy.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Command_Line
Really? And here I thought uncyclopedia was so last year...
BKP
This one is really excellent!
Ha ha.
The theme is funny, but when you finally see Tux, it shouldn't be so sinister. A lot of people already fear Linux, and you want the message to be that when you finally see Linux, it isn't as threatening as you thought.
Also, the heartbeats are a little out of place -- you should simulate the heartbeats with similar-sounding music.
LOL A penguin did bite Linus Torvalds... AND THEN THERE WAS TUX!
umm... I'm not sure this is positive.
Thanks for the comments everyone :)
Personally, I think the message doesn't have to be so straight-forward and in your face. This is our attempt to try something different, and still have a message. That message being that Linux is aggressive, and will get you, meaning understand you and how you work. Either way, it's meant to be a little on the fringe and happy to be there. Hope you enjoy it!