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Bruce Byfield

Bruce Byfield is a journalist who specializes in writing about free and open source software. He has been a contributing editor at Linux.com, and his articles have appeared on the Datamation, LWN, Linux Developer Network, Linux Journal, Linux Pro Magazine, The New Stack, Open Source and Content, and Wazi sites. He also writes a weekly blog called “Off the Beat” about the free software community for the Linux Pro Magazine site. In addition to his online publications, he has published in such hard copy magazines as Linux Journal, Linux Pro Magazine, Maximum Linux, The New Internationalist, and Ubuntu User. While he long ago lost the exact count, Bruce has sold over 1800 articles in his career. Bruce has also been marketing and communications director at Ian Murdock’s Progeny Linux Systems, and product manager at Stormix Technologies. He is also a sometime marketing, communications, and education consultant, whose clients have included IBM and Intel. Bruce lives in Burnaby, Canada. In addition to free and open source software, his interests include parrots, aerobic exercise, science fiction and fantasy, history, 19th Century novels, listening to punk-folk music, and collecting Northwest Coast art. He is the co-founder, along with his late partner Patricia Louise Williams, of the Mature Student Award at the Freda Diesing School for Northwest Coast Art at Northwest Community College.

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POSTS BY Bruce

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Application Security / Programming Languages

Fuzzing: An Old Testing Technique Comes of Age

22 Dec 2017 3:00am, by Bruce Byfield

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Culture

How Anti-Harassment Codes of Conduct Are Changing Tech Culture

28 Sep 2017 2:00am, by Bruce Byfield

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Technology

All the Facts about Linux Long-Term Support Releases

8 Sep 2017 2:00am, by Bruce Byfield

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Programming Languages / Tools

Systemd vs. the Linux Kernel

18 Jul 2017 6:00am, by Bruce Byfield

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Application Security / Containers / Programming Languages

What Linux Distributions Can Teach about Rolling Releases

4 Jul 2017 2:00am, by Bruce Byfield

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Culture / Programming Languages

The Linux Foundation and Its Critics

5 May 2017 12:40pm, by Bruce Byfield

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Application Security / Programming Languages

Paving with Good Intentions: The Attempt to Rescue the Network Time Protocol

13 Mar 2017 7:14am, by Bruce Byfield

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Programming Languages

Designing with LibreOffice: Preparing Images in Graphics Editors

15 Apr 2016 3:03pm, by Bruce Byfield

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Technology

Canonical Encounters Messy Legal Questions Bringing ZFS to Ubuntu

4 Mar 2016 11:26am, by Bruce Byfield

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