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NewsForge: To Iraq and Back: Soldier Uses Linux in War and Peace

[ Thanks to lh8
for this link. ]

“In 2003 and 2004, Jeff Schroeder served in the Iraq war, flying
a tiny remote control spy plane and servicing Unix and Linux
systems on the battlefield. Schroeder learned a lot of technology
in the desert, and now that his time in the Army is over, he’s busy
working as a Web administrator for Comair Airlines, and writing
utility scripts for Ubuntu, his favorite distribution. He believes
Linux is going to ‘take over the world.’

“A high school teacher introduced Shroeder to Linux in 1999. ‘It
was in networking class,’ he says. ‘I had a guy who was a big Linux
zealot, and he was like, ‘This is the next big thing.’ I deeply
respected this guy.’ Schroeder took him seriously and started
playing around with Red Hat at home…”

Complete
Story

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