My first Linux distribution was Slackware installed from 40 floppy disks running the 0.99 Linux kernel. Back then a distribution was just a starting point to get a system up and running. The concept of upgrading to the next release of the distribution was foreign, if you wanted a newer kernel or a security patch you downloaded the source and built it. Distributions were a very personal thing (more…)
I live in San Francisco and work as a consultant to Common Sense Media and Greatschools.
I stopped working full-time back in October of 2007 so we could take 8 months off and sail down to Mexico. And no, I'm not a dot com millionaire that's retired, I still need to work for a living.
Our boat is in Mexico right now and we'll be going down for another 6 months starting in February of 2009. When we get back in August of 2009 I'll start looking for another full-time CTO job.
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