David Both
It’s now 21 years since Fedora Core 1 was originally released in November of 2003, and it’s...
David Both
David Both is an Open Source Software and GNU/Linux advocate, trainer, writer, and speaker who lives in Raleigh North Carolina. He is a strong proponent of and evangelist for the "Linux Philosophy."
He’s been in the IT industry for over 50 years. He taught RHCE classes for Red Hat and has worked at MCI Worldcom, Cisco, and the State of North Carolina. He has been working with Linux and Open Source Software for over 25 years.
David likes to build his own computers to ensure that each new computer meets his exacting specifications.
He has written articles for magazines including, Linux Magazine, Linux Journal, and Opensource.com. He currently has five books published with Apress, "The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins", a self-study training course in three volumes “Using and Administering Linux: Zero to SysAdmin,” that was released in late 2019, and “Linux for Small Business Owners” with Co-author Cyndi Bulka.
Take back your power As the October deadline for dumping Windows 10 is fast approaching, many users...
There are two items of interesting Linux news today. Fedora 42 The first is that Fedora 42...
1 Microsoft has finally bowed to the inevitable and changed their draconian stance on older computers. They’ll...
Microsoft is really getting insistent about requiring an account before you can install new versions of Windows....
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation...
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 21 of my book, The Linux Philosophy...
3 In a sudden and short press conference early this morning, Microsoft has announced that Windows will...
1 October 14, 2025 is the last day of support for Win10 and over 400 million PCs...
This headline on Forbes is not quite as strange as it looks at first. The article is...
"Real programmers don't comment their code, if it was hard to write, it should be hard to...
Being a curious sort of person, I wonder about a lot of interesting things. For some reason,...
1 The top program is the original system monitoring and management tool for Unix and Linux. It...
3 Way back in 1956, when I was ten years old, my parents took my brother and...
David Both to be the keynote speaker The Perl and Raku Conference for 2025 is coming up...
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 19 of my book, The Linux Philosophy...