David Both
1 If you’re running a server connected to the Internet, it’s under constant attack from the crackers...
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.
The cd command is used on the Linux command line to change from one directory to another....
3 I decided to look more closely at the Fedora 43 Server Edition after struggling to set...
Cyndi Bulka, my yoga teacher and co-author of our book, "Linux for Small Business Owners", and I...
Triangle Linux Users Group Topic: Why I use Linux — And have never used WindowsPresenter: David BothWhen:...
1 Something interesting happened today that I decided to write about. Not that I don’t find interesting...
Customizing a Fedora system from a minimal command line only installation.
0 So I didn’t upgrade to 3Gb Gfiber. I wanted a couple things like static IPs that...
Starting Friday morning, January 23, I’m having Google fiber installed. It’s 3Gb symmetric, which is 3x that...
When I started writing this series about the BtrFS filesystem, I fully intended to migrate my primary...
2 The previous step in conversion of my main test computer from EXT4 filesystems on a Logical...
1 The function of any shell, whether Bash, KSH, CSH is to take commands entered on the...
2025 was an amazing year for Both.org. We started with only a few visitors per day and...
2 Over the nearly 30 years I have been using Linux, the default filesystem for Red Hat...
Sometimes learning a new thing can be the result of my innate curiosity.
Modern Linux filesystems make defragmentation irrelevant for most of us.