Linux in Bloomington

From BLUG

Contents 1 Companies/Organizations in Bloomington using Linux 1.1 Linux products 1.2 In the area 2 Interesting ties between Bloomington and Linux/Open Source

Companies/Organizations in Bloomington using Linux

Please add any company that has at least one production Linux system to this list.

• City of Bloomington
• Cook Group, Inc.
• Indiana University
• Ivy Tech Community College
• Kiva Networking
• Suso Technology Services, Inc. (provides commercial Linux support too)
• WFHB Community Radio Station
• Monroe County Public Library
• Finelight Strategic Marketing Communications
• Bloomington North High School (as part of the the State of Indiana Linux pilot program)
• Echo Systems, Inc.

Linux products

• ADC (Advanced Designs Corporation) creates doppler radar systems that are based on Linux and used around the nation including WISH-TV 8 in Indianapolis. Go to their products page and click on software.

In the area

• Quality Surfaces, in Spencer, has installed a Linux server running vTiger CRM
• Daniel Robbins, creator of the Gentoo Linux distribution, created Gentoo while attending Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana
• Ian Murdock - creator of Debian (The Ian in Debian) lives in Indianapolis and went to Purdue when he created it.

Interesting ties between Bloomington and Linux/Open Source

• The official GIMP version 1.0 CDs where distributed from Bloomington by Wilburworks. The guy lived over in Cascades on the north side of town.
• The Prodigy Linux distribution hails from Indianapolis, but has several people working on it from Bloomington.
• One of the major archives of various Open Source Software is stored at IU (spout.ussg.indiana.edu).
• Chris Walker, a member of BLUG, is working on a Tibetan translation of the Gnome desktop and of Open Office.
• The Packet Sniffers, which is a world known tech show, is made in Bloomington. dosman is even on our BLUG mailing list and attended a few meetings.