Alan Formy-Duval

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Alan Formy-Duval Opensource.com Correspondent
United States

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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Great article! I distro-hop a lot when I'm trying to find the optimal distro for some old antiquated machine that I considered throwing away 10 years ago. :) But, that's one of the beauties of Linux - you can rejuvenate old computers with it!