Oliver Leaver-Smith
1. Contact information
Email: [oliver@leaversmith.com]
Website: https://leaversmith.com
Fingerprint: C8D16C93
- Mobile: +44(0)7450 217 558
- Freenode: muggahtee
Hometown: Sheffield, England
2. Biography
2.1. Short
Oliver Leaver-Smith does a lot of things, but mostly is very good in one-line biography writing.
2.2. Long
My name is Oliver and I am a Network Engineer and Linux System Administrator, currently working at the UK ISP Plusnet
I built my first website at age 12, and have been doing so ever since. I quickly found that I enjoyed writing code by hand rather than using the drag-and-drop tools of the day -- I actually failed a module in Sixth Form because I wrote the code by hand rather than use Dreamweaver's layout tools (the teacher said the code was "too clean")
I started my Linux journey age 13 with Red Hat 9. I found a "Teach Yourself Red Hat" book on my dad's shelf and proceeded to tinker and unintentionally destroy his Windows partition. This wasn't all bad, as it meant that I got my own computer. Since then, I have chopped and changed with different distros, but have been a Fedora user since Fedora 14.
My current rig is a ThinkPad X61s running Fedora 23, and a multitude of physical and virtual servers running different versions of CentOS