[Discuss] Some followup from our Jan. Install Fest

[B. E. Irwin]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Brian Burger wrote:

> Folks who made it to the Install Fest back in late Jan/06 might remember the
> African guy who came in with the older desktop PC; he was the only one to
> actually go to the trouble of bringing a desktop to the Fest.
>
> He was working with one of the missionary groups, and doing training to set
> up email-over-shortwave stations in very remote sections of Africa. They had
> been using Windows, but were switching to Linux-based tools, hence his
> appearance at our Fest.
>
> I gave him my email address, and forgot about the whole thing - until last
> week, when I got the following email from the guy (Nzola), sent via one of
> his Linux-powered shortwave/email setups deep in rural Mozambique.

What a cool story.  Thanks, Brian, for sharing this with the List.  This is
what Linux is all about.

Barbara
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Barbara Irwin
Victoria, B.C.  Canada
On an island in the Pacific


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