User:Dboth

My name is David Both.

I am 64YO and semi-retired. I have been in the computer industry for over 35 years and was at IBM for 21 years. While in Boca Raton, FL, USA, in 1981 I wrote the original training course on the first IBM PC.

I have worked for MCI-WorldCOM, and the State of NC. I also spent some time at Red Hat where I was a trainer.

I have written a number of articles about Linux and OS/2 (yes, I know) and two chapters in an old OS/2 book. One of my articles in Linux Magazine, Complete Kickstart, was 9th place in the Linux Magazine Top Ten Best System Administration Articles list for 2008. 

Contact Info
Email: mailto:dboth@millennium-technology.com Website: www.millennium-technology.com Website: www.batabook.bz Fedora Account: dboth

Activities
I currently maintain Fedora Frog, a menu-driven Bash program that provides the Linux administrator an easy way to install applications not installed by default during a Fedora Core installation procedure, and applications that are not part of the standard distribution. Additional repositories are required beyond the normal Fedora ones, and they are automatically added by Fedora Frog as well.

Frog installs media players such as RealPlayer, Mplayer, VLC, Kaffiene and Xine. It also installs Thunderbird, Firefox, GNUCash, Adobe Reader and Yumex, and some things specifically for System Admins such as chkrootkit, iotop and more.

Fedora Frog currently supports Fedora 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14. Support for all previous versions of Fedora has been removed. I am now working on support for Fedora 15

New features in this release include:

Added support for Oracle VirtualBox-4.0 with extensions and keep support for VirtualBox 3.2 which is still available. Set this up for selection in a new Radio Button menu due to choice complexities. Added the screen program. Added support for Fedora 13 and 14. Resolved minor issues with VirtualBox. Added nVidia PAE support. Added more Admin programs such as ntop, powertop, iptraf, etc.

Fedora Frog is distributed under the GPL2 license. Fedora Frog can be downloaded from SourceForge.

I write and maintain the DataBook for Linux

I have created a Fedora 15 LiveDVD that meets some needs that I have that other spins do not. It is based on the standard Fedora Desktop spin but uses KDE and contains LibreOffice.

If anyone is interested in this LiveDVD I would be happy to share it. My intent is to submit it for inclusion on the spins page after I have completed more testing.

I use the LiveDVD as a business card for my business which is Linux and Open Source consulting and training. It is a great way to start a conversation and generate interest in FOSS.