When you become a great man, you meet kinsfolk you never knew you had.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.

(2) A good number of buses depart from Kaohsiung railway station. Take one that heads for Chishan, Meinung [Meinong], Chiahsien [Jiaxian] or Liukuei [Liugui]. Transfer at Chishan to Tainan Metro Bus and get off at the Kaohsiung Campus.

But polite and politic it is, to propitiate your hostess.