I have posted an article about my first impressions of Fedora 33 on my technical website. Well – in addition to that in my previous post. Read it here.
Category: Information
Migrating to SSD.
A few weeks ago I installed an M.2 SSD drive in my primary workstation, and just today I installed a second one. The complete story is a bit long for a post and it really belongs on my technical website,…
Migrate Thunderbird Config from one Linux Computer to Another
While getting ready to do a presentation at Open Source 101 in a few days, I decided that it would be good to reinstall POP_os! on my System 76 laptop. After that I needed to install Thunderbird and migrate my…
Network migration Monday, January 20
Outages through Monday Due to a large number of intermittent outages with my current internet provider, I have decided to move to a new provider. These outages make access to my web sites with their information about my books, unavailable…
About ebooks for “Using and Administering Linux”
All three volumes of my Linux self-study series of books, Using and Administering Linux – Zero to SysAdmin, are available in multiple formats. In addition to soft-cover hard-copy (sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it?), they can be purchased in Kindle…
Update on BookAuthority
After some additional research, it turns out that BookAuthority is merely an Amazon “partner.” They advertise Amazon books and get a bit of money from Amazon for doing so. As near as I can tell, they create these “top X”…
Back to Firefox
I really like Chrome for a web browser but I have recently started having significant problems with it. The main issue is that it no longer remembers my IDs and passwords for various web sites I visit frequently. This is…
Linux Desktop History
I have found a very concise and interesting history of the Linux Desktop. If you are interested check it out at How the Linux desktop has grown on Opensource.com.
Outage fixed
A few days ago we had an outage on this web site that lasted from Monday through Wednesday night. This has – obviously – now been fixed and we are back up and running. The problem appears to have been…
Innovative New Linux Desktops and other Changes in Fedora 30
Fedora 30 was released on April 30. The Fedora Wiki contains a complete list of the changes that were accepted for inclusion in this release. These changes include two new desktop environments, other new features, and bug fixes. Some older…