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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Great article, Maxim! I have been doing Linux for a long time and I have learned a couple new things from your article. I particularly like the usages, ${variable} and "for file in $(ls)". I don't know why I did not know about these before.
I do disagree with your statement about using sudo. I prefer to login as root because using sudo means more typing which is less efficient.
An excellent article.
KDE 5 Plasma. Latest updates seem to be improving it but I am not ready to go back to KDE. I like Xfce enough to stick with it for a while just because it works very well and I want to improve my knowledge of it.