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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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In the late 90's, I ran Enlightenment on Red Hat, Early 2000's XFCE on Slackware. Now, 2019, I run GNOME 3 on Ubuntu and Fedora. Quite a voyage!
Great article, like Marco said, it was nostalgic. After using a lot of different desktops over the years, I've settled on GNOME 3.