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Since 1998 my speciality has been Linux, although my experience with Unix goes back to the early 1980s (Ultrix) and 1990s (AT&T Unix). My Linux work has revolved around SuSE (standard and enterprise), Red Hat (standard and enterprise), Gentoo, Sabayon, and Ubuntu for clients in Canada, the USA, Africa, and Europe. If you need help with any Linux distribution in any of the following areas, please contact me.
Productivity. Security. No viruses. No spyware. It makes your computer work, as it should. And that allows you and your employees to work, too.
Linux is an operating system for your computer, an alternative to Windows.
Linux first came upon the computer scene in 1984, beating Windows to the marketplace by several months.
Linux is free software. There is no Linux company that markets and produces it. Instead, there are untold thousands of programmers around the world who have gotten so excited about the idea of a free operating system that they have contributed their labour to make it happen. People donate their time to provide help, to write software, to fix bugs, to write documentation, and so on.
The Linux phenomenon took the capitalistic world by surprise. The giant corporations never imagined that the world contained so many engineers who were fed up with the paying money to correct bugs in software they purchased, tired of losing work when computers crashed, and had lost faith in the ability of for-profit corporations to solve these problems.
Linux was modelled after the ultra-reliable Unix operating system which has run government and university computers around the world since the late 1960s. Built on this foundation and having no need for the dollars that come with market acceptance, Linux has grown with a focus on reliability first and features second. Today there are more programmers and people supporting Linux around the world than the staffs at Microsoft and Apple combined, new software releases happen every day, bugs are fixed almost as quickly as they are reported. With Linux, a computer can work about as reliably as a radio.
If you use a computer primarily for the Internet (web and e-mail) and business applications (word processing, spreadsheets, etc.), then Linux is a very sensible and easy choice to make.
In about two hours, I can take your existing computer and load Linux on it with a suite of Internet and business software. All of your Word and Excel documents will open perfectly, and you can keep sending that format of document to your business associates so nobody will even know you switched unless you tell them.
From that point onward, you will no longer have a computer slowed down by anti-virus and anti-spyware software. Linux is so secure you don't need to worry about those things. These two items which consume so much of a person's time on the computer are now gone! You will probably find your old computer suddenly feels new again because it runs so much faster.
When you want some new software, you won't have to search the Internet and wonder if it will make your computer crash. You will simply call up a menu of software that is conveniently located in the desktop menu, find a software package you'd like to try, and click 'Install.' Everything in the list has been tested by Linux enthusiasts to be sure it works properly, and if you don't like it you can just remove it and try something else.
When you want the latest updates to your software, you just open the software list and click 'Check for updates.' Every update available will be found on the Internet and presented to you. With one button you can select all of them then click 'Install' and let your computer quietly do the work. You almost never have to click an 'I agree' button, but when you do it will almost always contain the same license terms as every software package - the GNU General Public License, which allows you to use the software for personal or business use without charge.
Please contact me for more information and to discuss your needs.