David Both is an Open Source Software and GNU/Linux advocate, trainer, writer, and speaker. He has been working with Linux and Open Source Software since 1996 and with computers since 1969. He is a strong proponent of and evangelist for the "Linux Philosophy for System Administrators."
He has written articles for magazines including, Linux Magazine, Linux Journal, and OS/2 Magazine back when there was such a thing. He currently writes prolifically for OpenSource.com. He particularly enjoys learning new things while researching his books and articles, building his own computers, and helping his grandchildren build their computers. He has found some interesting
and unusual ways of problem solving, including sitting on one computer on which he was working.
David has published five books with Apress. Four solo works, “The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins,” August 2018, and a three volume self-study training course, “Using and Administering Linux — From Zero to SysAdmin,” released in December, 2019. He has also written one book with co-author Cyndi Bulka, "Linux for Small Business Owners" that was released in 2022.
David currently lives in Raleigh, NC, with his amazing and supportive wife, Alice.
He can be reached via email at LinuxGeek46@both.org or on Mastodon at @LinuxGeek46@linuxrocks.online.
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@Abbas and @WireRydr -- I appreciate your comments and I am glad that this article has been helpful to you both.
For now, systemd-networkd is installed but disabled because it do. NetworkManager is enabled so that is the tool that most people will be using. The same is true for systemd-timesyncd. It's there but not actively used by default. This usually indicates that these are currently bleeding-edge tools and may not be ready for prime-time.
Advanced users who want to try these tools can make that transition. There are a number of systemd-networkd related man pages that discuss how to make the transition in both directions. I am not quite ready to make the transition to systemd-networkd. I will probably do so when it becomes the default network management tool.