I am a long time UNIX system administrator and open source advocate. In recent years my primary focus as been on Linux & FreeBSD systems administration, networking, telecom, and SAN/storage management. I love building infrastructure, tying systems together, creating processes, and bringing people together in support of their technical efforts.
When I can, I try to contribute back to the open source projects either with patches, or by helping others in technical support forums.
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Oh yes, back in the day telecom charges were local and long distance, so you had to pay more for out of region. I was in the NJ/NY area so I had some access to live BBS's on the east coast. Most households then only had 1 phone line -- I eventually had to get my own phone as the family would not tolerate hours of use from me ... not to mention the total disruption caused to your 30 min download when mom picked up the phone and started dialing.
I am not so sure I agree with that. While Linux is a popular choice for cloud deployments, that might be related to its overall popularity. Linux has been pretty good for the desktop experience (and dhcp + other end user niceties) which helps some with overall adoption; an organized UI and package manager will then facility overall use and a desire to develop and translate those skills to slimmed down 'server' or 'minimal' installations. Sometimes taking these overly complicated user-centric distros and slimming down to a more secure server deployment can be a challenge. Also, unlike commercial UNIX and *BSD, Linux doesn't always shine is areas like networking, NFS, etc. But, we still love it and seek to improve ... I'm just not sure systemd's approach to controlling everything is the right direction.