“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…”