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Residence
  
Ottawa, Ontario

Nationality
  
Canadian


Name
  
Dru Lavigne

Role
  
Writer

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Occupation
  
System administrator, instructor, managing editor, director

Known for
  
BSD Certification, Open Source Business Resource

Website
  
A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru

Books
  
BSD Hacks: 100 Industrial, The Best of Freebsd Basics, The Definitive Guide to, BSD hacks

Zfs 101 aka zfs is cool and why you should be using it by dru lavigne


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

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

A prolific author, she has written for O'Reilly, 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 writes the widely read technical blog A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru on Toolbox.com. 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 and FreeNAS 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.

NYCBSDCon 2014: ZFS Management Tools in FreeNAS and PC-BSD by Dru Lavigne


References

Dru Lavigne Wikipedia