Trisquel in YouTube

I used to follow OSGUIShow and he is a big fan of rms, but he is on the open source side, and (ironically as an rms fan) calls people, like many Trisquel users, who use no proprietary software "radicalists." I gave up and stop following him after he switched to Windows.

>I totally like the idea. I'm planning on do something similar, maybe we could combine efforts.
Send me a message to nathangnu at lavabit dot com and maybe we could work something out.

I'm sure most of us have similar Flash workarounds!

Thanks for the advice. The focus probably wouldn't be on using GNU/Linux, but it wouldn't hurt to make guides that may already have been covered, especially if it's been done by open source people. For example, many people want to use wobbly windows since they saw it in a video or something. The open source people might instruct them to install proprietary drivers.

I think the idea is good. Keeping a project running like this is a challenge though. I worked on one which broadcast on a cable station throughout part of New Jersey (USA) many years ago.

One thing I would suggest is avoid the tech as much as you can. Cover cool stuff you can do with free software. New tech especially. That can be a bit challenging. Etc. Review hardware. Show people it is *easier* than using a proprietary operating system. Do it by example. Show them the easy way around a problem (for instance if you do a show installing Trisquel over Microsoft Windows). Don't do it by showing them the terminal and figuring out how to get drivers working. Do it by leading. Tell them "This didn't work, so I bought x from place Y. Then stick it in and select Y". Notice how that sticking it in and just working is *key*. Microsoft and Mac users would have to manually install a driver and figure out a proprietary interface. Possibly spending hours (printers, wifi cards, etc). Obviously you aren't going to be showing them how to get NDISWrapper working anyway... but. This applies in other areas. The point is to focus on a wider audience than just technical users.

Right now I'm trying to get HD content working. Maybe you can focus on getting something working and work like that and then with a technical user have them package up a script of whatever it was you did. Then show people how to get HD content (in my example) working. And you can show off one of the cool entertainment projects.

One of the things I've always wanted to do that I thought would be fun is go through all the products that are ecologically unfriendly because of proprietary software. And you want this to be interesting so you would do it really fast! Just about everything manufactured is dependent on non-free drivers/firmware. It would be easy to get hundreds of pictures of various products that don't have free drivers. All that hardware ends up in a landfill somewhere solely because the manufacturers refuse to release drivers/firmware under acceptable free software license. When users are forced to upgrade because Microsoft or Apple discontinue support the proprietary drivers hold back users from getting their hardware working again on newer platforms. Microsoft Windows XP and Vista are losing support in two years. Think about it. All that hardware will end up in a landfill. Then snap a picture of a landfill for the video.

:) I think that was kinda implied already. Reviews of hardware are actualy one of the few things most GNU/Linux magainzes and the like don't cover that you would see in a typical profesionally done "PC" computer magazine.