Linux Online - Interview with Michael Jang, author of 'Mastering Red Hat Linux 9'

Interview with Michael Jang, author of 'Mastering Red Hat Linux 9'


Publication:	Help Net Security	Date:	Jul 31 2003
Reporter:	Mirko Zorz

Michael Jang, RHCE, Linux+, LCP, specializes in books on Linux and Linux certification. His experience with computers goes back to the days of jumbled punch cards. He's written or contributed to over a dozen books on Linux, Linux certification, Red Hat Linux, and even Windows 98 and XP.

How long have you been working with Linux, and how did you get interested in it?

I started working with Linux in 1997, when I realized that an MCSE and a program in telecommunications was not going to be enough to change careers. Actually, I started with a Unix course at Berkeley, but soon discovered that the course used networked terminals on a S.u.S.E. distribution. It was a good course, focusing on commands, vi, scripts, and some of the folklore behind the development of Unix. It also served as an excellent counterpoint to the book I was writing on Windows 98. I finished my MCSE and have been using Linux ever since.