My name is David Both I am a Linux and Open Source speaker and advocate who resides in Raleigh, North Carolina. I have been in the IT industry for over thirty years and taught OS/2 for IBM where I worked for over 21 years. While at IBM, I wrote the first training course for the original IBM PC in 1981. I taught RHCE classes for Red Hat and worked at MCI Worldcom, Cisco, and the State of North Carolina. I have been working with Linux and Open Source Software for about 15 years.
I have written articles for OS/2 Magazine, Linux Magazine and Linux Journal. My article "Complete Kickstart," co-authored with a colleague at Cisco, was ranked 9th in the Linux Magazine Top Ten Best System Administration Articles list for 2008.
I currently work as President, Senior Consultant, and janitor for Millennium Technology Consulting LLC. I teaches self-created Linux classes such as "Theory and Practice of Linux system Administration" (5 days), and I am working on an introductory course for beginners and a course that will cover the Linux servers. I also do consulting for small to medium sized companies who wish to explore Linux and FOSS as an alternative to proprietary software.
I have converted most of the computers at my church to Linux as well as those of several individual friends.
While recently in the hospital for kidney stones and under the influence of pain-killing drugs, the in-room computer crashed and I spent several minutes expounding on the merits of Linux and FOSS. So my wife says -- I don't remember. ;-)
I can be reached at dboth@millennium-technology.com
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