Minister spreads good word about Linux to nonprofits

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Parris is planting a new church in Charlotte, N.C., the Matheteuo Christian Fellowship. Matheteuo translates to "make disciples," and Parris has extended this directive to include Linux disciples. His PDF book, Penguin in the Pew has been downloaded more than 1,000 times.

Additionally, Parris has launched a computer training class as part of Matheteuo's educational ministry. The class teaches word processing skills and computer literacy, enabling students to apply their knowledge to several different applications and computer tasks -- regardless of the operating system.

Much like the wise man who built his house on solid rock, Parris built Matheteuo's IT foundations on Linux, but mainly because the foolish man's beachfront property was simply too expensive.

"I knew we could afford to run Linux," Parris said, estimating that while Windows might cost more than $80 a license for each of the church's 20 donated computers, Linux would cost only $80 total.