Interview with Jeff Moe: BLAG, linux-libre and MoreMagic Banana's picture
Jeff Moe is a 37 year old self-employed father. Better known as jebba, he is the main developer behind the 100% Free distribution BLAG (for BLAG Linux And GNU). He is also leading a couple of other Free software projects. He kindly agreed to give Blue GNU an interview.
Jeff Moe's Background
Magic Banana: How did you come to use and get involved with Free Softwares?
jebba: Well, the short version is: I started an ISP in 1995 based on Red Hat & Slackware.
Magic Banana: What about the long version?
jebba: I had an Apple ][e way back when, then went through the Mac thing for HS/College (using a Mac I stopped learning about computers)... I occassionally used Unix at the university, but mostly for things like mailing lists and FTP. Then I decided to look back into the whole PC world (post-college), and decided the best way to learn about PCs was to build one. So i did: I got hired at some place that refurbished junk PCs by the pallet, so i cleaned up lots of PCs. I made a website "How to Build Your Own PC" which I think was the first of its kind on the Internet (included photos even--wow). Anyway, I never used Windows and never liked it, so I got a book with Slackware in the back of it and installed that thing from 40+ floppies because my CD player wasn't supported.
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