I will be starting a Red Hat Linux users group in Atlanta over the next couple of months. I am choosing to go with Red Hat as the distro for several reasons including:

• There are plenty of Fedora user groups out there.

• I what to help grow the “professional” Linux workforce and focus on training, certification, and enterprise level services.

• Provide a learning hub for those with an interest in enterprise computing (clusters, GFS, LDAP, iptables, DNS, etc)

I come from a background that was not exposed to GNU, Linux, programming, and the Free Software movement. I am sure many can say the same. I was drawn to Linux because it was “Free Software”. I am free to take the source code, modify it, redistribute, and learn from it. In order for people to take advantage of those freedoms, we must learn the skills necessary to leverage them.