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Orange Crate: Toward Progeny Debian 2.0

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 18, 2004

Chuck Talk: Thanks Jeff and Jolene for
agreeing to an interview. I do appreciate it. For my audience’
sake, can you tell us a little bit about your role at Progeny and
how you became interested in Linux?

Jeff Licquia: I’ve been using computers for
about 20 years, 14 of those professionally. I got exposed to Unix
and the Internet at my first computer job in 1990.

“I first saw Linux in 1992, right around the time it gained the
ability to boot multiuser. I promptly forgot about it for about a
year and a half, until an unrelated work project alerted me to
Linux’s greater maturity. I set up my first Linux box at work to
manage E-mail for my company, and have been an enthusiastic user
since…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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