Idea: Linux for Home

[Brian Fahrlander]

     Mine is a low-tech town. Over seven years I've lived here, taking 
care of my aging Mom, looking for Linux work that barely exists at all. 
The 30 years of computing I've been doing means little here; one of my 
resume qualifications is "mechanically inclined". It has 300,000 people, 
they're just completely unaware of anything but Windows.

     Over the years I've felt a strong, strong urge to set up an in-home 
Linux support company.  Here's the idea:

     For $50 I come and install, say, Feisty. I set them up with their 
firewall and ssh. For $20 a month, I'm on-call, so long as I don't have 
to actually GO anywhere or bring equipment, the fixes are free. For 
another $10/month, I rsync their home directories for safekeeping.

     The problem is in trying to replace my job; long before I get 
enough clients to do this alone, it will demand time that will keep me 
from getting a job (although once the Fed and the child support are done 
with it, I make less than $75/week,)

     When the idea first came up I was on Redhat, and intended to keep 
the root password so that nothing could be changed, increasing security. 
But with Ubuntu's ability to add program with ease, I suppose I'll let 
them keep it.

     - Is anyone out there doing this in their town?

     - Ideas?

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  Brian Fahrländer                 Christian, Conservative, and Technomad
  Evansville, IN                              http://Fahrlander.net/brian
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