It’s all Jono Bacon’s Fault
Posted by raetsel on July 23, 2006
He doesn’t know this of course so you can’t really blame him.
See I’ve been been using Linux, sorry GNU/Linux, on and off since about 1998, though more off than on, (until about 12 months ago (K)ubuntu entered my life quickly became the only O/S I use at home) but I was just a passive user, happy to reap the benefits of other people’s hardwork without paying a penny.
The day job is as a Unix systems’ administrator so I know the benefits of Unix/Linux but I don’t seriously try to show my Windows’ work colleagues why it is better.
Then I went to the UKUUG’s Linux 2006 conference and heard a talk by Jono Bacon about Linux Advocacy. This was a great talk, informative and funny and it got me thinking about ways I can give something back to the community. Of all the various ways and means Jono suggested the simplest was “blog about it”.
So here I am with my blog.
As a result of hearing Jono’s talk I’ve become a subscriber to the excellent (and profane) Lugradio Podasts and I’ve just this minute (well 4 hours ago) returned from Lugradio Live 2006 my second ever Linux/OSS related event. Lugradio Live was an excellent event and I really wish I could have been there for both days but I had to spend most of Saturday watching a backup and a restore of an ftp server at work go horribly wrong.
I’ll be writing more about Lugradio Live very soon.
