[Gllug] Linux club article from CNet

[Janet Reid]

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1015-205-6561504.html

Microsoft-free clubbing

Some people leave high-tech for local politics and
others to be...club impresarios? That's the path
pursued by Netscape engineering enfant terrible,
Mozilla founder and evangelist, and longtime Rumor
Mill favorite Jamie Zawinski, who sneak-previewed his
face-lifted DNA Lounge Tuesday night, and launches it,
for good luck, this Friday the 13th.

Zawinski, last seen leading the open-source troops
into battle against Microsoft and then leaving them
there, has poured his energies into this new role for
the past few years, gaining a real-time education in
permits, construction, and San Francisco's arcane
nightclub laws. His misadventures are copiously
detailed in his online diary.

After Zawinski led the Rumor Mill on a tour of the
club Thursday afternoon, it was clear that renovations
were more than skin-deep. Zawinski leveled floors,
moved bars, sound-proofed the building, installed a
state-of-the-art sound and lights system, planted Web
cams throughout, and is in the process of installing
six Web-enabled kiosks running Red Hat's Linux.

And the browser? Netscape 4, bien sur!

DNA Lounge will Webcast in Real and MP3. Windows Media
Player is not under consideration, says the club
owner.

"This is a Microsoft-free club," he said.


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