I jumped to Ubuntu 6.06 in Sept. of 2006 "cold turkey" after chasing a
WinXP rootkit for days.  I had zero *nix family experience, but I did have
17 years in IT previously with a lot of Netware and general networking
experience.

There was still a learning curve, but it was and is absolutely worth it.  I
own my box, not the Microsloths, not some punk scriptkiddie from the
Ukraine, me.  Finally.

I built and administer an Ubuntu-based server for a small law office here
in Tucson, including a Win7 virtual machine inside via VXWare to run an
MS-SQL application :).  So I'm not doing too bad.

I'm nationally known as a reformer and expert in electronic voting systems,
a member of the board of directors at http://BlackBoxVoting.org - I'm also
the Libertarian Party appointee to the Pima County Election Integrity
Commission (advisory body to the Board of Supes) and am the Treasurer of
the Pima County Libertarian Party.

Jim March