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I often find that answers to EC2 users' questions can often start with "If you switch to an Ubuntu AMI, you can do this simply with ..." And, it appears that many do try Ubuntu and love it. I find that answers to EC2 users' questions can often start with "If you switch to an Ubuntu AMI, you can do this simply with ..." And, it appears that many do try Ubuntu and love it.
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Contact Info

Eric Hammond

Location: Los Angeles, California, USA

Email: MailTo(ehammond AT thinksome DOT com)

Interests

Since November 2007 I have been building, maintaining, documenting, promoting, and supporting public AMIs (images) for running [http://alestic.com/ Ubuntu on Amazon EC2] (elastic compute cloud).

These Ubuntu AMIs quickly became popular enough that I started a [http://groups.google.com/group/ec2ubuntu support group for folks using Ubuntu on EC2]. Hundreds have joined the the community.

I provide support on the general [http://ec2forum.notlong.com/ Amazon EC2 forum] and on irc.freenode.net #ec2 for both Ubuntu and non-Ubuntu questions.

I find that answers to EC2 users' questions can often start with "If you switch to an Ubuntu AMI, you can do this simply with ..." And, it appears that many do try Ubuntu and love it.

I selected Ubuntu as the platform for building the technology of the most recent startups I've been involved with: [http://www.rent.com/ Rent.com], [http://www.thisnext.com/ ThisNext.com], [http://www.campusexplorer.com/ CampusExplorer.com]. I run dozens of personal and community service websites on Ubuntu including a popular URL shortener, [http://notlong.com/ notlong.com]

I have been running Ubuntu on my personal desktops and servers since Breezy and used various other Linux distributions prior to that and Unix flavors prior to that.

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