Promotional Posters for Open Source and Linux?

SysKoll asks: "I belong to an LUG (Linux Users Group) and I am trying to increase the visibility of Linux and Open Source for the general public. I googled for several hours and I noticed that almost nobody seems to offer Linux and OSS promotional posters anymore. (I already have the 'Good evening Mr Gates, I'll be your server tonight' giant Tux poster). So do you have a recommendation for OSS and Linux posters, preferably suitable for the general public?"

Thoughts

[Tyreth]

It would be good if an artist could make some professional looking poster/flier advertisements of Linux in general (not a specific distribution). Microsoft and other companies all have very professional looking propaganda, I'd like some of our own :)

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[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.google.com/search?q=promotional+linux+p osters

http://www.slackware.org

links

[SHEENmaster]

google [google.com] and slackware [slackware.org].

UNIX Holy Wars Posters

[infonography]

If anyone know where to get these posters I would be grateful. Some of you will remember it. Lots of knights and a Wizard in the center. An updated one featuring some of the Linux distros would be nice too. However I think Linux was mentioned in the first.

*BAM* How's your foot?

[devphil]

I know that poster well, by the sound of it. It's hanging on the wall in my mentor's office.

It's an army of BSD-family on one side, an army of SystemV-family on the other side, and in the middle (not far from the wizard(s)), trampled underfoot, pierced with many blades, completely overlooked, dressed in innocent white, is the user.

It's a reminder of what to avoid, not an advertisement. But perhaps you knew that and didn't say in your post.

(The poster is also chock full of *nix references: there's

Posters here

[Anonymous Coward]

You can get posters from OpenBSD online shop [openbsd.org]. 9 very cool posters for OpenBSD/OpenSSH - the artwork is superb. It's a shame that there wasn't a poster for the 2.6 release's "Script Kitty & fish bowl" art... by far the best ever.

Re:Posters here

[Halvard]

This is the one I want! It's got Spong Bob on acid and Squidward in drag [openbsd.org]!

Re:Posters here

[GnarlyNome]

Speaking of posters I saw one one time it showed a man in his PJs at the computer and a pretty girl in a short Nightgown trying to drag him away from the pc the title was "Why Do You Think They Call IT UNIX"(was he a/.er?);-)

Betcha we see some soon

[0x0d0a]

I'll estimate two weeks after this post until ThinkGeek has something...

Re:Betcha we see some soon

[GnarlyNome]

That explains your presance here?

Well, good Sir, Open BSD of course...

[Noodlenose]

Hi! Check out all the posters at the OpenBSD Website [openbsd.org].

You'll be financing the best OSS in the world and will help Theo forget the Darpa Grant.

Posters and leaflets for NetBSD

[hubertf]

The NetBSD Advocacy [netbsd.org] page has some posters available for print-it-yourself.

- Hubert

Post-ers?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ain't /. got many posters? (This story has got only 11 comments tho')

Roll your own on cafepress.com

[abreauj]

So do you have a recommendation for OSS and Linux posters, preferably suitable for the general public?

I don't have any specific recommendations for existing posters, but with a little artistic skill, you can always make your own, using a service like cafepress.com. I do that with the logo I created for my LUG; I opened a storefront on cafepress.com, uploaded a large JPEG graphic of my logo, and applied it to stuff like T-shirts, baseball caps, posters, and bumper stickers. Then my members can order t

Small, but fun...

[Gnulix]

This might not look good as a big poster, but it is quite fun. Bill G Discovers Linux [gnulix.org]

geekshirts

[Peartree]

Check out geekshirts [sourceforge.net].

I've sent some of the EPS files to a friend at a printing company. He printed them on a hi-res plotter on slick, finished poster paper. Looks great.

I especially like "Why are we hiding from the police daddy? Because we use vi son, they use emacs." [sourceforge.net]

Linux Posters

[ratfynk]

Who said Penguins can't fly. The best way to educate the public is to tell them that a 64 bit os will be available with Flying Penguins much sooner and cheaper than XP pro, and to learn how to run 64 Penguins is not a big hassle. If the camera manufactures come on board, with Linux, which might be the case soon, because of cheap 64 bit processing, then watch out. Linux will be in poster heaven. How much will video editing and photo processing software cost the manufacturers to licence for XP? Lets see, will

Re:Linux Posters

[Jonner]

What do mean by "will be available"? Native 64-bit Linux has been available for a number of years now on venerable platforms like Alpha and Sparc/64. More recently, it's been ported to Itanium and Hammer. I'm sure other Free OS's are available on 64-bit architectures, though I don't know details.

But, realistically, how much a processor can do is more important than its number of bits. Ironically, some film studios have been switching to GNU/Linux from the likes of Irix. They're not switching because GNU/Li

64 bit AMD vs old IRIX off topic but true.

[ratfynk]

As I see it the old Irix chips are hindered by old outdated arch, thats why they suck. I was refering to the new 64 bit specs that are showing up on Hammer. With the ability to natively run (without emulation) 32 bit code AMD has got a big advantage for the future of desktop imaging, sound and motion processing. One will not have to software stream old apps. New native 64 will smoke. My wife is part of a medical imaging software implimentation, and the biggest problem is the speed at which high res images c

Re:64 bit AMD vs old IRIX off topic but true.

[Jonner]

I agree that AMD seems to be pulling ahead of Intel with Hammer, though the 386 backward compatibility is more important to proprietary Windows apps than to Free *nix ones. It seems like a very cool architecture.

What amazes me is how both Intel and AMD have managed to evolve x86 into a modern architecture without sacrificing backward compatibility. The MIPS RISC CPU's in the SGI machines can't compete with x86 chips any more, though the architecture is much younger.

Apparently, it was possible to incorpora

might not be suitable for the 'general public'....

[ikekrull]

http://hammer.prohosting.com/~ikekrull/art/07.gif

Check out Raul Silva's GNU/Linux Posters

[kuknalim]

at http://gnuart.onshore.com/ [onshore.com].