About the Author

William Leemans has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry in various positions and supporting several environments.

In 2005, he started his own consulting company, Critter BVBA, in the hope of offering open source solutions to his customers, who are mainly enterprises.

In 2010, William started supporting Red Hat products full time with the Federal Police, Belgium. Since then, he has moved on to support Red Hat products at Proximus and now Euroclear.

William is a strong open source supporter and contributes where he can. He has a couple of projects running at GitHub (https://github.com/bushvin). During the course of writing this book, William recertified himself as a Red Hat Certified Engineer, hoping to one day become a Red Hat Certified Architect.

When he's not tapping away at the keyboard of his laptop, William likes to play around with his two young children, listen to rock music (Foo Fighters, AC/DC, and Queens of the Stone Age are some of his favorites), and devising complicated and intricate plots for the stories that he runs at his biweekly roleplaying sessions with his friends.

Thank you, Caroline, my dear wife, for being my soul mate, supporting me during this lengthy process, and giving me the space, time, and motivation to see this to the end.

Thanks, Mom, Dad, and Fre, for your relentless and unwavering belief in me and support, regardless of my rebellious antics.

Thank you, Tim, for telling me that I should get into computers when you did. I wouldn't know where I would've ended up if you hadn't!

Thank you, Gilad, for being the friend I need in my darkest hours and my most joyous moments!

Thank you, Wednesday Guys, for the support and fun. Koeken troef!

Thank you, Dag, for taking me on to yet another rather interesting adventure in my life called Red Hat.