opensourced penguin

opensourced peng
Originally uploaded by kg6gfq.

Well, my attempt to put a picture of this penguin in my last post failed, so I am now using Flickr to put it up.

By the way, I happened to be listening to a podcast by Matthew Bischoff of "ESC from the World" (http://matthewbischoff.com/blog/) and heard about the Flickr service from him on the same day I decided to try using the service to put photos in this blog.

Spring Break is coming!! Unfortunately for those interested in seeing progress here there won't be much for a few days. I will be on vacation, but should return in time to at least get Grub to recognize Knoppix.

Procrastination/Pencil Linux??/Penguin!!

Well, there is not much chance of anything particularly interesting happening here on opensourced or with the idea of a new Linux distro until spring break at the earliest. Why do they insist on giving high school students homework?!? We have better things to do! (Or at least I do! :-)

Many, many, many thanks to Derek Kozel for the logo for this new distro. I was thinking "Pencil Linux" might be a good name, based on the pencil-computer analogy created by Seymour Papert. If you have never heard of this analogy, then I would recommend visiting http://www.papert.org/articles/ComputersInClassroom.html and reading the first paragraph.

Tux the penguin, holding a pencil. Courtesy of Derek Kozel.