The People Who Support Linux: At Work and at Home

“Chase Crum is a U.S. Army veteran, a Shriner, an IT
infrastructure manager, and a member of The Linux Foundation. This
certainly does not capture all that defines Chase, but it begins to
illustrate where he derives his ideas about Linux, community and
giving back. Chase also represents a growing majority of systems
administrators and IT managers who are using Linux both at work and
at home.

“”I consider myself a Linux FANATIC. I’m one of the mythical
people you always hear about when others are dispensing advice
about doing what you love and never working a day in your life. I
use Linux at work, at home and on my laptop. I love it because I’m
never confined to what a manufacturer thinks I need or should have.
There are so many distributions and applications to choose from
that it is almost impossible to find one that doesn’t suit your
needs.”

“By day, Chase administers networks, servers and desktop
computers at a major telecom service provider in Atlanta. He says
that Linux is an “integral’ part of his operations. “Our servers
run primarily on CentOS, while our desktops are centered around
Ubuntu. We maintain various firewalls and appliances, each with
their own purpose and selected variant of Linux. Our communications
servers rely heavily on open source projects like Asterisk and
MySQL.”

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