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

How Linux got to be Linux: Test driving 1993-2003 distros

Install Java manually on Linux

Manual installation provides the user with the highest level of control over the Java runtime environment.

computer screen

Use lspci on Linux to see your hardware

Use the lspci command to display devices and drivers on your Linux system.

Multi-colored and directional network computer cables

What do we call post-modern system administrators?

Our community discusses the responsibilities, possible titles, and potential skills of today's sysadmins.

Kurt Stam's LEGO-encased Raspberry Pi cluster

Manage your Raspberry Pi with Cockpit

Establish central control over your Raspberry Pis with Cockpit.

Raspberry Pi used at SUNY Albany

Set up a minimal server on a Raspberry Pi

Don't decommission that old Raspberry Pi just yet! This step-by-step guide shows how I set up my Raspberry Pi with the most minimal configuration to conserve precious system…

Tips and gears turning

10 lessons from sysadmins adapting to change in 2020

Adapting to change was a major theme in 2020, and throughout all the turmoil, we could count on sysadmins to keep us up and running.

Authored Comments

Alan Formy-Duval Opensource.com Correspondent

19 Aug 2022

5 note-taking apps for Linux

Great list Don. I like Xournal, my Fedora laptop has a touch screen and I do use the stylus to write and draw in Xournal occasionally.

Alan Formy-Duval Opensource.com Correspondent

2 Aug 2022

How I use the Linux sed command to automate file edits

Great article, sed is such a useful tool!