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blithen
January 22nd, 2008, 12:39 AM
(Finally I get to post something interesting people might care about :P)
Anyway. This 23-year old in my city built a site to help people get around when they don't have a car or have to walk. The site uses an algorithm to find the shortest path from A to B. And guess what's best of all. IT'S LINUX BASED. : D! It was in my local newspaper I scanned a copy of the article. (I apologize for the quality.)
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a273/blithen/scan0001.jpg
I predict a few people in my city googling linux.

-grubby
January 22nd, 2008, 12:46 AM
hey I just realized you live about 50 miles from me. I'll have to look this up

bufsabre666
January 22nd, 2008, 12:47 AM
yay good press!

Lostincyberspace
January 22nd, 2008, 12:47 AM
Is it open source for those of us who are not in Spokane to set up our own.

PurposeOfReason
January 22nd, 2008, 12:48 AM
Washington represent!

blithen
January 22nd, 2008, 12:49 AM
Is it open source for those of us who are not in Spokane to set up our own.

I'm not sure. But that would be interesting. It says in the article that he is planning on extending it to other cities that want to do it.

-grubby
January 22nd, 2008, 12:53 AM
I'm not sure. But that would be interesting. It says in the article that he is planning on extending it to other cities that want to do it.

I doubt he would do it for my city (chewelah). I believe we're about 2x2 miles square. I don't think we even have a public transport service