Evangelical penguin

November 12, 2006

My operating system of choice for many years has been one of the many flavors of Linux, the most recent being Kubuntu, one of the Debian family of Linux distributions. Operating systems are just software, of course, and as such they have no soul. Linux works just as well for the pornographer as for the evangelical Christian. In case you haven’t figured it out by now, I am an unabashed Christian, and I try to put my copy of Kubuntu to work in a way that will not make God blush or worse.

You may know that the symbol of Linux is a cute little penguin, and he has hundreds of relatives who keep popping up on Linux-related blogs and websites.

Patience now, I’m getting there.

There are several variants of the Ubuntu linux distribution, one being Xubuntu, which bills itself as “Linux for Christians.” It’s really much like all the rest of the Ubuntu family, except it adds some Bible study programs and religious literature. The Xubuntu people also came up with an evangelical penguin, and I promptly stole him for my use. Here, finally, he is:

BibleTux