Consulting

Linux/BSD

My involvement with web publishing led me back to Unix (something I'd left behind in college). My home office network includes several Linux and OpenBSD boxes, each providing a different function.

Linux

The bulk of my Linux work revolves around web application and database servers. Apache, PHP and MySQL are staples. And in addition to Perl and some shell scripting, I'll soon be able to claim Python among the languages I can employ.

*BSD

I use OpenBSD for firewalls, mailservers, DNS servers, and network sentinels. I recommend OpenBSD for almost every server application I can think of. It is easily the simplest and most secure of the free Unixes.

I'm familiar with NetBSD, and, to a lesser extent, FreeBSD. But because FreeBSD is an ancestor of what now undergirds Mac OS X, I expect it won't be too unfamiliar!

While I'm familiar with operating these systems on Intel/AMD hardware, most of my experience revolves around running them on older inexpensive Macintosh hardware — machines that are competent to any light- to medium-duty internet service. For those who need the state of the art, I have the resources to make that happen, as well.