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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.
Filesystems Linux Linux Filesystem Hierarchical Standard

The Linux Filesystem Hierarchical Standard

In Linux, and many other operating systems, directories can be structured in a tree-like hierarchy. The Linux directory structure is well defined and documented in the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). This standard has been put in place to ensure that all distributions of Linux are consistent in their directory usage. Such consistency makes writing and maintaining shell and compiled programs easier for SysAdmins because the programs, their configuration files, and their data, if any, should be located in the standard directories.

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Community Open Organization Opinion

How Both.org is rebuilding a community after the death of an organization

For about ten years, a large number of writers from around the world contributed articles to Opensource.com. OSDC, as we called it, published thousands of articles, helped to guide and mentor many of us as we began or boosted our writing careers. OSDC also helped some of us make connections into the book publishing world. We were a vibrant and active community.

OSDC was created and supported by Red Hat — until it was purchased by IBM and soon deemed extraneous.

Learn how Both.org is rebuilding that community.

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Linux Opinion

Open and the right to repair and modify

The right to repair the hardware we purchase is as basic and important as the right to see and modify the code for the open source software we use. One vendor has embraced that with a passion. System76 of Denver, Colorado, builds a complete line of repairable desktops and laptops. They’re also in the process of designing a new laptop that uses components that can be upgraded as well as repaired.

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