I have always been interested in computers, and would find myself hanging out with the Computer Science students instead of the Aviation Management or Business Management students I was a part of. At home and at work I have been largely self-teaching myself using computers starting with Excel and Access with VBA through ASP and SQL at work. Thankfully my current employer values education, and so I have been taking classes and not only learning the technology, but un-learning what I have been doing wrong over the years. At home, though, I have been teaching myself Linux, system administration, networking and the overall method of migrating our system from Windows to Linux. I am involved in the Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS.org) I have the opportunity to take what I've learned the hard way and hopefully help others.. I have been enjoying Open Source for a while now, and I am hoping to get a better understanding of the entire model and application.
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A good read.
Because of my experience with Linux I have been given charge of our web servers that run FreeBSD. So I'm glad to see somebody who is straddling *nix variances.
I agree with you, that if you are going to learn something you have to jump right in, and dual-booting can be a crutch! Especially if you spend most of your time in one system or the other because of all those updates waiting for the next time you log in ... :)
It's a great magazine, you guys do good work with it!