Alan Formy-Duval

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Alan has 20 years of IT experience, mostly in the Government and Financial sectors. He started as a Value Added Reseller before moving into Systems Engineering. Alan's background is in high-availability clustered apps. He wrote the 'Users and Groups' and 'Apache and the Web Stack' chapters in the Oracle Press/McGraw Hill 'Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration' book. He earned his Master of Science in Information Systems from George Mason University. Alan is a long-time proponent of Open Source Software.

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Authored Content

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4 open source editors I use for my writing

In celebration of the National Council of Teachers of English NCTE National Day on Writing 2022, I thought I'd share a few of my favorite open source writing tools.

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5 Git configurations I make on Linux

This is a simple guide to quickly get started working with Git and a few of its many configuration options.

GNOME

My first impression of GNOME Console on Linux

Console is GNOME desktop's new terminal emulator. Try it out for a fresh experience that has tight integration with the GNOME Desktop Environment.

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Use Terraform to manage TrueNAS

Get more out of TrueNAS when you integrate Terraform for configuration management.

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How I scan family photos on Linux

With Linux, I can connect with my ancestors in unexpected ways.

Links

How to update a Linux symlink

Links have always been a unique advanced feature of UNIX file systems.

Contributed Content

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Our favorite fonts for the Linux terminal

Here is an entirely subjective list of some fun fonts for your Linux console.

5 trends in open source documentation

Our favorite markup languages for documentation

Documentation is critical to open source software projects. We asked our contributors what their favorite markup language is for documentation.

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4 ways to use the Linux tar command

How do you use the tar command? That's what I recently asked our community of writers. Here are some of their answers.

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What's your favorite screenshot tool on Linux?

There are many open source screenshot tools to choose from, but which one works for you?

Why the operating system matters even more in 2017

7 pieces of Linux advice for beginners

We asked our community of writers for the best advice they got when they first started using Linux.

30 years

30 things you didn't know about the Linux kernel

The Linux kernel is turning 30 this year.

Authored Comments

Alan Formy-Duval Opensource.com Correspondent

8 Apr 2023

A search engine for Creative Commons

Great article, that gets an immediate bookmark!

Alan Formy-Duval Opensource.com Correspondent

20 Feb 2023

Stargaze from the web browser with an open source planetarium

Very cool! I will have to give this a try very soon!