[aklug] Re: Gnu/Linux on the SOHO?

Sooo...

Here are SPITwSPOTS (Fixed Wireless ISP)...

Things I use every day that are linux or BSD based:
My laptop (Debian, ElementaryOS, Arch depending on what day of the week ;))
Procera
Ubiquiti Radios
Ubiquiti EdgeRouters
MikroTik routers
PFSense custom-built routers
most of our servers (video, voip, managed wireless/switch infrastructure
control panels)
our ownCloud servers
Our Android tablets/phones
our SAF licensed links
All of our in-house voip (grandstream which is basically a front-end for
asterisk, grandstream UCMs and FXS aggregators, Ubiquiti UniFi phones)

I'm sure there's other stuff, but I've got to run to have a meeting with
a FTTH vendor.

Josh Reynolds
CIO, SPITwSPOTS
josh@spitwspots.com
www.spitwspots.com

On 2/17/2015 11:08 AM, Tim Johnson wrote:
> * Christopher Howard <ch.howard@zoho.com> [150217 09:38]:
>> I was wondering, since there are a broad range of Alaskans on this
>> list: Do you know of any places in Alaska where Gnu/Linux is
>> succeeding, or even being used, on the SOHO level? I mean,
>> particularly, small businesses that do not do I.T. as their main
>> business. From my job search efforts in Fairbanks, I've got the
>> impression that most small business owners have never even heard of
>> it. But maybe things are different in Anchorage.
>>
>> (Incidentally, I've more or less given up hope of finding an actual
>> I.T. job in Fairbanks -- the market is horrible as usual. And now that
>> UA is plunging into the red and laying off right and left, it is
>> pretty tough getting into anything at UAF. Oh, if only I had been an
>> accounting major! It seems like one out of every two businesses in
>> Fairbanks needs a bookkeeper.)
> By SOHO, I take it that you are referring to business offices? If
> so, I doubt that you are going to find Linux offices, but Telcos
> and other communications businesses use Linux a bunch, I'm pretty
> sure and there are several such employees on this list and maybe
> they would like to put in their two cents worth.
>
> My former business partner went to work for GCI, writes perl from
> home for the most part. (telecommuting)

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