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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Turn an old Linux desktop into a home media center

Repurpose an outdated computer to browse the internet and watch videos on your big screen TV.

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8 Linux commands for effective process management

Manage your applications throughout their lifecycles with these key commands.

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How to use autofs to mount NFS shares

Configure a basic automount function on your network file system.

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How a university network assistant used Linux in the 90s

How a part-time job as a university network assistant helped this student discover the versatility of Linux.

Authored Comments

Alan Formy-Duval Opensource.com Correspondent

13 Oct 2021

5 markdown editors I recommend trying

Great list! I've been using Ghostwriter for a while now.

Alan Formy-Duval Opensource.com Correspondent

13 Oct 2021

Automate image processing with this Bash script

Fixed! Access request should not be necessary, repo is now public. Thanks for alerting me to that!!