New(ish) Computer

After much waiting the "new" desktop is here. Actually the case and the monitor are the same, so is the floppy drive (not that I have any use for it). Just about everything else is new, the motherboard, the AMD64 dual processors, the 4GB of DDR2 memory, the 500GB hard drive, and a squeaky clean installation of Ubuntu Linux 7.10. I've really gotten into the open source community this past year and I really like the stability and security we have now. Many Windows applications have great native alternatives, and for the pesky few that don't, they can either be run through a software layer like WINE or in a virtual machine running a Windows XP Pro desktop. I also really appreciate the sense of community effort, from blogs and boards to wikis of all kinds, the support is far better than the customer support from a restricted OS. There's something about open source that reminds me of the early church as described in Acts 2, where the believers provided for each other out of their wealth and shared all things in common.