Alan Formy-Duval
Sometime in recent history, sci-fi nerds began an annual celebration of everything Star Wars on May the...
Alan Formy-Duval
Alan has 30 years of IT experience, spanning Corporate, Financial, and Government sectors. He is currently a senior cloud engineer for an international organization. He holds a Master of Science in Information Systems and is a long-time proponent of Open Source Software, Linux and the UNIX philosophy. Alan contributed to the first Solaris 11 System Administration book from McGraw Hill and continued his writing on Opensource.com as an author and correspondent.
2 I recently built a new computer, and now it needs a fresh operating system. But before...
2 Cat is a fairly simple tool designed to concatenate and write file(s) to your screen, which...
2 Services, services, services. A service is a huge part of computing. You’re reading this article on...
1 This article was originally posted on opensource.com. It’s been updated and is published here with the...
In a recent article, I introduced the chown command, which is used for modifying ownership of files...
Image by: Opensource.com CC-by-SA 4.0 Every file and directory on a Linux system is owned by someone,...
2 Every object on your Linux system has a permission mode that describes what actions a user...
Adding a user is one of the most fundamental exercises on any computer system; this article focuses...
SSDs have benefits like silent and cooler operation and a faster interface spec, compared to their elder...
Sometimes you need to identify the hardware in a system. One command used for this is lspci.
UNIX and Linux users find many uses for links, particularly symbolic links. One way that I like...
Cat is a fairly simple tool designed to concatenate and write file(s) to your screen, which is...
Computers have network addresses, but they're usually difficult for humans to remember. Hostnames are labels intended to...
Learn to use the ancient serial communications hardware and software methods that are needed even today in...