[ale] Geek Gift Ideas for Radio Show Linux Promotion

[Brian Pitts]

On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 14:50 -0500, aaron wrote:
> Hey ALE!
> 
> WHAT LINUX RELATED OR SUPPORTED GEEK
> TOYS AND TOOLS ARE AT THE TOP OF YOUR
> WISH LIST?
> 
> I'm asking here because...
> 
> I got a call yesterday from a gentleman named Gene Bright.
> He hosts a Radio Program that airs on several Georgia
> stations and is devoting an upcoming holiday season show
> to a focus on "Inexpensive Geek Gifts".
> 
> He is inviting a guest from each of the main computer geek
> communities (windoze, mac & linux) to participate and offer
> suggestions, and I have accepted the invite to provide the
> Linux perspective for the taping next Tuesday (12/9) at 8pm.
> 
> The top of my list will, of course, be recomnendations for
> gifts of Free and Freedom Friendly LINUX DISTROS and
> GPL OSS SOFTWARE disks as the best gifts any geek can
> get at any price (but still stressing the fact that all of the
> BEST Things in Life are FREE).
> 
> For the rest of the list I wanted to welcome suggestions
> from all y'all!  So, again:
> 
> WHAT LINUX RELATED OR SUPPORTED GEEK
> TOYS AND TOOLS ARE AT THE TOP OF YOUR
> WISH LIST?

If you haven't already, look at Ars Technica's gift guide for
inspiration.

http://arstechnica.com/guides/buyer/holiday-gift-guide-2008.ars

A useful and cheap gift I'm giving is 2GB USB drives with a "live" linux
on them. My current plan is to create a customized Ubuntu image using
Reconstructor [0] and set it up on the USB disk with USB creator [1].

[0] http://reconstructor.aperantis.com/
[1] https://launchpad.net/usb-creator

-Brian