Where can you go to get a semi-private tutorial about the world’s fastest growing Linux distribution, and buy a descent cup of coffee at the same time. The only place I know is the Linux Caffe, the focal point for the Linux community in Toronto.

Dave Sullivan, Consultant with Lophyte Technology Consulting delivered a solid presentation on Dapper Drake Ubuntu 6.06 .The knowledge base of the participants ranged for the well experienced to one person who had installed Ubuntu the day before. Dave wasn’t phased when answering the technical questions from the Linux veterans and the more general questions with the Ubuntu newbies. I left the seminar wanting to get home quickly to apply what I had learned.

Here I am. a few years away from retirement, when most people are thinking vacation property and time shares in sunny places and I am taking on the Linux experience.

I tell people that it is like standing on an iceburg. It's big, impressive and perhaps a little scary, but the scary part is knowing that I can only see the part above the waterline. There is so much more about Linux that I just don't know anything about, yet.