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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+1 for GnuCash. I have been using it for over 14 years and it has been very solid and flexible. I use it for my personal finances, including tracking stocks. I also used it for my small business until I closed that recently. It works well in both arenas and I am very happy with it.
It is nice to know that there are other options and I had not previously heard of HomeBank so I will look at that and see if it offers any features that I might need.
Thanks for this great article.
Hybrid - cyborg - jobs fits in very nicely with the Unix/Linux philosophy of the 90% solution. In other words, the computer can do 90% of a task extremely well, but that last 10% is very difficult and/or slow on a computer but a human can do it extremely well and quickly.
Page 121 of "Linux and the Unix Philosophy," by Mike Gancarz, ISBN 1-55558-237-7 - a favorite book of mine.