Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, technical writer and director at

FreeBSD Foundation The FreeBSD Foundation is a United States-based 501(c)(3) registered non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the FreeBSD project, its development and its community. Funding comes from individual and corporate donations, and is used to sp ...

. She has been using

FreeBSD FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which was based on Research Unix. The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993. In 2005, FreeBSD was the most popular ...

since 1996, has authored several BSD books, and spent over 10 years developing training materials and providing training on the administration of FreeBSD systems. She has written for

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, TechRepublic, DNSStuff, and OpenLogic, contributed to Linux Hacks and Hacking Linux Exposed, and is author of ''BSD Hacks'' and ''The Best of FreeBSD Basics''. Her third and latest book, ''The Definitive Guide to PC-BSD'', was released in March 2010. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux and BSD systems. She is founder and current Chair of the BSD Certification Group Inc., a non-profit organization with a mission to create the standard for certifying BSD system administrators. She is also Community Manager for both the

PC-BSD TrueOS (formerly PC-BSD or PCBSD) is a discontinued Unix-like, server-oriented operating system built upon the most recent releases of FreeBSD-CURRENT. Up to 2018 it aimed to be easy to install by using a graphical installation program, and ea ...

and

FreeNAS TrueNAS is the branding for a range of free and open-source network-attached storage (NAS) operating systems produced by iXsystems, and based on FreeBSD and Linux, using the OpenZFS file system. It is licensed under the terms of the BSD Li ...

projects, making her responsible for dealing with issues relating to community relations and the administration of various Forums. She is also the principal author / executive editor of most of the documentation for both projects. Since 22 January 2013 she is a committer in the category "doc" at the FreeBSD Project.

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External links

Dru Lavigne's Blog

Interview: The BSD Certification Group's Dru Lavigne

Q&A : Networking Expert Dru Lavigne
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