First exposure: 1998-99 school year with Red Hat 5.0 (I think, bought it off the shelf at Circuit City). Built my first server: April, 2002. (Red Hat 6) Switched to FreeBSD in July, 2002, after a rootkit hack. Been running FreeBSD servers ever since, but only as service machines; never for desktops or workstations. I've been hosting websites either locally through DSL and Cable or remotely through farms since April, 2002. Supposedly I know enough to be a support specialist (according to people I've worked with) but I don't think so. :) Although it would be nice to get out of development double time.