tux500.com— The Linux community is going to put a Linux sponsored car in this year's Indianapolis 500... and you can help! Today marks the launch of Tux500.com, a community-powered marketing effort!
Apr 10, 2007View in Crawl 4
I see Dell footing some of the bill. Considering they sell Linux servers, and workstations now. excellent PR. Oh and lets not forget HP, IBM.... Your wrong... and I can see how many people this will draw into new world of open'ness.
FTA: "The Indianapolis 500 is one of the largest, most recognizable sporting events in the world."I think it was John Cleese who said that a fundamental difference between the Americans and the British is that when the British hold "international" sporting events, they invite other countries.
I just donated a whopping $20.00 for the sake of getting Linux and it feels good. Where is Redhat or Ubuntu or Microsoft/Novel SUSE? I'm calling on the big players to match my donation!
Racing in America is not dead but sure could use a kick in the pants. ALSM is starting to get more manufactures and is becoming something more than just a warm up for Le mans. The split between Kart and IRL is what killed open wheel racing here in the US. That and they still continue to fight. It they would just make up and combine again things would be better. Rally has indeed became more popular through the years but until it can lose the image as being the rookie leagues for the "real" driving in Europe it will not really catch on. They should also implement Group B again. :P
This is the worst idea I've heard in a while. You can spit out any numbers for the amount of people that watch it as you want, but as it stands, 99% of people that live in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) have never watched the event, and have no desire to watch it. I would imagine this is much the same for the rest of Europe.You're basically throwing a huge amount of cash at a few Americans that are into Indy racing. Waste of money.
jftitanApr 11, 2007
I see Dell footing some of the bill. Considering they sell Linux servers, and workstations now. excellent PR. Oh and lets not forget HP, IBM.... Your wrong... and I can see how many people this will draw into new world of open'ness.
doubtfulsalmonApr 11, 2007
FTA: "The Indianapolis 500 is one of the largest, most recognizable sporting events in the world."I think it was John Cleese who said that a fundamental difference between the Americans and the British is that when the British hold "international" sporting events, they invite other countries.
spankaccountApr 11, 2007
I just donated a whopping $20.00 for the sake of getting Linux and it feels good. Where is Redhat or Ubuntu or Microsoft/Novel SUSE? I'm calling on the big players to match my donation!
celebApr 11, 2007
Shake and Bake
mrzodiacApr 11, 2007
It's a great ideal. I'm diffenatly going to donate as much as I can to see this done....
jrmyApr 11, 2007
Racing in America is not dead but sure could use a kick in the pants. ALSM is starting to get more manufactures and is becoming something more than just a warm up for Le mans. The split between Kart and IRL is what killed open wheel racing here in the US. That and they still continue to fight. It they would just make up and combine again things would be better. Rally has indeed became more popular through the years but until it can lose the image as being the rookie leagues for the "real" driving in Europe it will not really catch on. They should also implement Group B again. :P
astrocreep2kApr 11, 2007
Ill contribute, partly because it promotes IRL over NASCRAP.
stardogchampionApr 19, 2007
This is the worst idea I've heard in a while. You can spit out any numbers for the amount of people that watch it as you want, but as it stands, 99% of people that live in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) have never watched the event, and have no desire to watch it. I would imagine this is much the same for the rest of Europe.You're basically throwing a huge amount of cash at a few Americans that are into Indy racing. Waste of money.
usacomputertecMay 22, 2007
Thanks!