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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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Don, you really sum it up! I have appreciated connecting with like-minded writers and peers of open source via the Community Moderator program. It has been a two-way street for me - allowing me to grow and contribute as a writer while discovering new technologies and getting to know amazing people.
I previously wrote the article Intro to the Linux useradd command , have a look.