There’s nothing like the dawn of a new year to give a person a fresh perspective, and that’s probably never been more true than it is now, as we begin this year of monumental change. So it’s not surprising that the conversations on the Linux blogs over this past week seemed to be taking place on a somewhat higher plane than usual, and to touch upon questions from more of a bird’s eye view. On the Linux Loop, for example, Thomas Teisberg presented some of the highlights of the Linux dreams for 2009 that readers had submitted over the past few weeks