Ubuntu Hits Italian National Television (again)

November 7th, 2009 by matt

In May 2008 the release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was reported on Italian national television (link to my blog entry). Fabio Marzocca of the Ubuntu-it community was interviewed.

Yesterday a further report was broadcast about the release of Ubuntu 9.10. This time Flavia Weisghizzi was interviewed about the new release, and did a great job: thanks Flavia!

You can watch the YouTube recording here.

One interesting thing about the report is how heavily they focus on the Koala as the mascot of the release. Ubuntu generally takes the view that its release mascots are used only during the development phase, and that the final version when released should be referred to by its version number (Ubuntu 9.10, in this case). However the way that the programme focused on the image of the Koala demonstrates that people will find it easy to associate with such mascots.

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8 Responses to “Ubuntu Hits Italian National Television (again)”

  1. on 07 Nov 2009 at 11:21 pm1 Martin

    Is it possible to get subtitles? I know some video websites allow the community to put in notes and subtitles. Does youtube?

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  3. on 09 Nov 2009 at 8:07 am3 matt

    @Martin – as far as I know subtitles haven’t been made for this, but I’ll ask around.

  4. on 17 Nov 2009 at 8:57 am4 ghabuntu

    Wow. That’s great. Ubuntu has really worked hard to deserve all these publicity. It’s also great to see that mainstream media is beginning to show interest in Linux in general. Thanks for the post

  5. on 18 Nov 2009 at 10:13 pm5 Flavia

    Matt! I’ve just read this post!
    Thank you very much to report this news!
    Thank you in improving international visibility of Italian Community and our work!

    Kisses

    Flavia

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  7. on 08 Apr 2010 at 8:54 am7 SleepBarn

    This is awesome….

    SleepBarn

  8. on 19 Apr 2010 at 10:40 pm8 Michelle

    Wow. That’s great. Ubuntu has really worked hard to deserve all these publicity. It’s also great to see that mainstream media is beginning to show interest in Linux in general. Thanks for the post

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