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Links Here are some links to other web sites Bob likes, or which might be of interest to those who like Bob's music. American Federation of
Musicians Local 1000 Folk Alliance Gatherings WUMB - FM Online WKSU Folk Music Jon
Carroll on The Gate Bob Likes Linux Bob is running Red Hat Linux 9 on his old Compaq computer (an AMD K6-2 with 192M RAM) and loving it. Linux and open source software are a great cost-effective solution for poor folk as well as thrifty corporations--with a broadband connection, you can download an entire operating system, office suite, recording and multimedia applications, etc. legally right off the Internet. The operating system is more stable and less a virus magnet than Windows (one can get addicted to an operating system that doesn't crash every day). It runs on older hardware. Documentation and help as well as the software itself are put together by communities as well as corporations; in my experience, these days the community is usually more helpful than a corporate help desk. If you've got a CD burner, you can often legally copy the whole software distribution to CD and pass it along to your friends. Learning Linux is sort of a fun hobby, and for the semi-technical it fits in well with folk music's do-and-create-it-yourself philosophy. Like traditional folk songs, Linux and GNU software are commonly held intellectual property (although Gnu and Linux are not public domain, but governed by legal licenses that ensure their legal status as free software), and like folk songs, their community origins and peer review ensure a high standard of quality. Here are a few places to start:
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