dfwlinuxguy
About
| First name: | James |
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| Last name: | Skidmore |
| About me: |
I started using Linux in 1998. I was in college and found a copy of RedHat 5.1 in the college bookstore. I took it home and started trying to figure out how to connect it to the Internet using my superfast 56k dial-up modem. I started looking online and came across an "all Linux ISP". I called the guy up and told him I wanted to learn everything I could about Linux. The next thing I knew, I was the system administrator for the company and building dial-in servers, web servers, email servers, ftp servers, provding tech support to customers, provisioning new lines, configuring routers and just about everything else. Two years later, we had merged with a larger ISP and I became the Network operations manager. At the time we were receiving so many requests from small businesses for Linux services that I decided to go off and start my own Linux consulting business. I'm now an old guy and I've been using only Linux since the Microsoft Windows 98 days. I messed around with MacOS and Windows and supported it when necessary, but my OS of choice has always been Linux. While I did startout using RedHat (it was the one that worked best back in the day), I'm a Debian guy now and have been for years. My desktop of choice is Gnome (it's Guh-nome, like GNU, not like the gnome in your garden =) I feel like I've stepped back in time a million years if I have to use a DE with a "start button" |
| Interests: | Linux, Motorcycles, Photography, (Bi)cycling |
| Location: | Arlington, Texas |
Details
| Online now: | Not online; last online 59 months ago (May 14th 2020, 1:27 PM) |
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| Current time: | 1:28 PM |
| Timezone: | (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada), Chicago |
| Banned: | No |
| Date of birth: | February 18th |
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| Last submit time: | 1,871 days ago |
