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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Why I made the switch from Mac to Linux

I have tried many different Linux distros over the past 20 years, but currently, my desktop runs Ubuntu and my laptop runs Fedora. Everything works!

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Why I made the switch from Mac to Linux

The Thinkpad T-series has always been great with Linux. When I decided to recommit (10 yrs ago), I loaded Ubuntu 9.04 onto a brand new T400 and never looked back! That was my professional daily driver too.