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My first experience with Linux was at a temporary weekend job. I sat at a small desk and typed a few commands to print massive amounts of paperwork for Winn Dixie. I was oblivious to what Linux was; I didn’t even know it was Linux. All I knew that it was different from DOS; but, didn’t really care.Several years later I received an old hand-me-down computer that didn’t work anymore. I took it to a repair shop and had it repaired. Windows 98 was the only thing installed after it was repaired. I found a Mandrake Linux at an office supply store and a Redhat Linux book at a book store. It was my first time installing an operating system and I was scared out of my wits that I might do it wrong and ruin the computer; but, everything went well.I would read the book and poke around typing the commands in console mode. One command caught my attention by the output I received. It looked like the output I remembered from the computer at Winn Dixie. I read on and the book talked about the command “Jobs”, this jumped off the page at me.I continued reading through the book and eventually found several text editors. I explored vim and didn’t care for the way to write files and the exit routine; but, liked it much better than the keyboard shortcuts of emacs. I eventually found the configuration directory and dug deep into it. I started changing the files, adding and deleting consoles, switching to and from the console and the graphical user interfaces of Gnome, KDE, Enlightment.Eventually, I found out how to setup a domain, email server, and a file server. I recompiled the 2.4 kernel for the hardware multiple times. I also had configured the bios to start the computer every morning so a cron job could run a command to play music to wake me up. Each night another cron job would compile the kernel then shut the computer down.

Listed skills include Programming In C++, Linux, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and 6 others.