Linux on TV in Sverige

Jacob Lundqvist wrote in to tell us that a report about Linux was shown on prime-time Swedish television. Hit below to read his report.

Jacob's report follows:

"One of the the National TV channels in Sweden did an feature in today's prime time news (Rapport 19:30) where they talked about the new alternatives to traditional OS's "for example Microsoft"

Basically they mixed OSS and linux - it wasn't a technical thing - it was for the general public.

First was the obligatory introduction to this phenomena that Linus started, and a interview with Linus, and some short mention of OSS and what it stands for.

They interviewed Mr Cary Carp, IT-manager at the Swedish Museum of Natural History www.nrm.se, the largest museum in Sweden, who described how the museum has been using linux as their server OS for several years (Nice zoom-in of a RedHat 5.0 box ;)

The newsreader concluded that OSS in general and Linux in particular was an interesting new path for the computing industry and radically different from the older traditional purely commercial companies in the buisness (zoom in on a mamoth-skeleton) "like Microsoft"

Technically this feature was very non-techy, clearly aimed for the general public.

But the interesting part I think, is that a general newschannel spends (prime) air time on this subject, probably shows how well spread the OSS and Linux phenomena is starting to become. And please note, they didn't mention the trial or the Halloween documents, so it was not aired as a direct reaction to them.

It's one thing if computer-magazines do linux features, now it is considered news for the mainstream!