[OS:N:] Linux, Vtund, and speakfreely saved the day

[Matt Frye <mattfrye gmail com>]

Here is a story from my local LUG mailing list.  I think it says a lot
about how we should view and use Linux and Open Source _outside_ the
office/data center.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ralph Blach <rcblach blach dnsalias org>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:21:05 -0400
Subject: [TriLUG] Linux, Vtund, and speakfreely saved the day
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug trilug org>

Well, I love linux.  This help me make arrangements for my son to
evacuate from the path of Hurricane Ivan
very efficently.

Here the story.  My son goes to St Stanislaus, in Bay St. Louis,Ms and
he has a linux machine with
speakfreely and vtund.

We use vtund to keep a tunnel up between our two machines so that we can
use speak freely.

 Well, when it was late, and I need to contact him. I telneted to his
machine through the tunnel, and started the
speak freely speaker application.  I then started up the speakfreely
sfmike on my machine and was able to get his attention

He then made his taxi reservations to get to the airport

I love linux.

Chip

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