embrace the penguin

present singular third person embraces the penguin · participle present embracing the penguin · participle past embraced the penguin · past embraced the penguin · alternative embrace the Penguin

1. idiomaticslangcomputingTo switch one's operating system to Linux.

   Good idea to embrace the penguin and let go of the Bill.

   1999 October 23, Rohana Rezel, “Re: Thinking Linux”, in alt.linux (Usenet), message-ID <38121C6F.864D48E2@stud.umist.ac.uk>

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   I have tried gnome on a 440Mhz Ultra10 and a dual 450Mhz Ultra60, and if a P5-200 […] will run it any better I'll throw all of my Suns away tomorrow and embrace the penguin.

   2002 September 23, tucansam <tucansam@whodis.org>, “Re: Sun Linux desktops”, in comp.sys.sun.misc (Usenet), message-ID <an8u3q$ep5$3@reader1.panix.com>

   Linux continues to look spiffier and spiffier. That's good news whether you're ready to embrace the penguin, or just like Microsoft getting a little motivation to improve its own software […]

   2004 November 29, Chris Keall, “Meet the parents”, in New Zealand PC World

present singular third person embraces the Penguin · participle present embracing the Penguin · participle past embraced the Penguin · past embraced the Penguin

1. Alternative letter-case form of embrace the penguin.

   Dump the Borg! Embrace the Penguin!!

   1998 November 27, Valentin Guillen, “Windows NT PCMCIA support on Sony Vaio”, in comp.sys.laptops (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025

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   I embrace the Penguin. best o/s going and all for free ! Enlightenment X window^([sic]) user.

   1997 December 18, Paul Austin, “hawker harrier,Sr71,A-6 Intruder”, in rec.models.rc.helicopter (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025

   Try http://www.linux.org for general info & pointers to FAQ's. Good luck, embrace the Penguin !

   1998 September 17, Paul Sims, “Please help a newbie as noone else will”, in alt.os.linux (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025

   Embrace the Penguin. Give Bill the cold shoulder!

   2000 November 23, Bob Utterback, “Test”, in linux.test (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025

   Embrace the Penguin. End MS Windows tyranny!

   2002 March 24, Sara, “ADSL tries to connect, fails. Help again please.”, in alt.os.linux.mandrake (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025

   Having spent a dozen or so fortnights embracing the Penguin I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that I arrq n j*exvat vafgnapr bs Jvaqbjf too. (never thought I'd say that...) That being the case I'm going to nuke my old broken WinME installation

   2003 August 22, Brain D, quoting Sn!pe, “[geek] Wot should I do with my bocks?”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet), archived from the original on 20 Oct 2025