Larry Cafiero is sitting in his cluttered office in the Santa Cruz Mountains looking nothing like a revolutionary.

Friendly bearded face. Casual blue jeans. Comfy work shirt with the little penguin logo.

Yeah, penguin logo. See, Cafiero is a Linux guy. Maybe you know one — or a Linux woman. Maybe you know that to love Linux is to live Linux — that you don't just use free and open-source software, you embrace it and evangelize it. Some more than others.

For his part, Cafiero is leading a revolution in the redwood-ringed town of Felton. He's been inspired by others around the country and with them he's dubbed the effort "Lindependence 2008,'' a scheme hatched to turn Felton into an all-Linux enclave.

"There was this Nikon ad a couple of years ago where they gave digital cameras to this small town in South Carolina,'' Cafiero, 50, says, "and it was like, well, what if we gave Linux to a small town?"

And so Cafiero met with the town business association and the chamber of commerce. He sent letters to the town's residents. He tacked up posters and handed out fliers at the weekly farmers' market along Highway 9: Come to the church hall. Learn about free and open-source software. Change your life. OK, your operating system, anyway.

And they came. On three days in July they came from Felton. They came from Scotts Valley. They came from Watsonville and Oakland and who knows from where else?

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