The Utopian Library

I discovered this while searching for books about the Ubuntu operating system, which I recently installed on my netbook for the simple challenge of learning something new and because, well, I don’t like Windows…

A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed…

Ubuntu is an African way of seeing self-identity formed through community. This is a difficult worldview for many Western people, who understand self as over, against, or in competition with others.

Certainly not what I was looking for, but a totally welcome non-coincidence.

But still, I’d really like to know why Jaunty Jackalope won’t recognize the Ethernet and wireless devices on my new Asus 1005HA. I’ll keep looking.

Filed under: @ruth, learning, technology, unlibrary