New Year’s Resolutions
It’s January 2006. Time to take stock of your penchant for the Penguin.
Sunday, January 15th, 2006
Writing this column in mid-November, I know with absolute certainty that come New Year’s Day, I will have listened to way too much loud music, drank way too much alcohol, and eaten way too much good food. I know that upon waking up, sometime in the very late morning or early afternoon on January 1, 2006, that I will hardly be in the mental state to come up with any New Year’s resolutions other than “I will never do this to myself ever again.” So, it is now, two months in advance, that I propose a few New Year’s Linux and Open Source Resolutions for 2006.
I endeavor to convince all of my friends and family to migrate to Open Source software and Linux-based desktops.
Right now, only two people in my personal sphere of influence use Linux and Open Source software of any kind: one is my buddy, Fat Guy, and the other is my best friend of nearly twenty years, Jon, for whom I just built an Athlon 64 media server rig running SUSE Linux 10. Jon’s MP3 and DIVX/XVID collection is so freaking huge that he practically needs his own EMC storage array to keep it all.
