Linux Journal: Cruising Without a Bruising

“Tales of woe by frequent travelers rarely earn sympathy–even
from their own breed. But that doesn’t stop them from telling their
tales anyway: ‘The caviar in First was okay, but the toast was
stale. And they wouldn’t give me an aisle seat'” Fortunately, I
have no tales of travel woe to tell about the Linux Lunacy Geek
Cruise earlier this month. Quite the opposite, in fact. But I won’t
tell those either. Not yet, anyway. Because there’s real suffering
in the news, much of it in the places we just visited.

“Cruising the Caribbean during hurricane season is a bit like
dodging slow-moving Frisbees, each one being 300 miles across.
Ships can do the dodging, but land can’t. That was one of the
biggest lessons–about Linux, as well as other natural
developments–that I’m still learning right now…”

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