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Counting files and words from the command line command_line_prompt
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Counting files and words from the command line

Jim Hall December 30, 2025
Here’s a practical example of how I use the command line to tally how much I wrote...
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Behind the Badge: Community, Process, and Care in Open Source Exams LF-Education-01
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Behind the Badge: Community, Process, and Care in Open Source Exams

AmyJune Hineline December 29, 2025
Open source certifications are the result of months of people working together across time zones, building trust,...
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Edit text with this Emacs-like editor

Jim Hall December 27, 2025
If you're already familiar with GNU Emacs, you should feel right at home in Freemacs.
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Automate tasks with FreeDOS BAT files

Jim Hall December 26, 2025
Here's a helpful guide to batch files under FreeDOS.
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2 ways to listen to music on FreeDOS

Jim Hall December 25, 2025
Two great programs to let you listen to music and audio files on DOS.
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Old-school programming with BW BASIC retro_old_unix_computer
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Old-school programming with BW BASIC

Jim Hall December 24, 2025
Install Bywater BASIC on your FreeDOS system and start experimenting with BASIC programming.
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How to add and remove packages on FreeDOS OSDC_gift_giveaway_box_cropped
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How to add and remove packages on FreeDOS

Jim Hall December 23, 2025
Learn how to use FDIMPLES, the FreeDOS package manager.
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The FreeDOS editor makes it easy wfh_work_home_laptop_work
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The FreeDOS editor makes it easy

Jim Hall December 22, 2025
FreeDOS provides a user-friendly text editor called FreeDOS Edit.
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4 cool facts about FreeDOS for #DOScember code_computer_development_programming
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4 cool facts about FreeDOS for #DOScember

Jim Hall December 21, 2025
It’s December, and that means it’s #DOScember - so let’s celebrate with a weeklong series about FreeDOS.
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When an Apparent DDOS Attack is a Good Thing When an Apparent DDOS Attack is a Good Thing
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When an Apparent DDOS Attack is a Good Thing

David Both December 20, 2025
Both.org is 2 years old and has been growing steadily. But we're now seeing some interesting growth...
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Mozilla Firefox AI Slop

David Both December 19, 2025
I’ve been using Mozilla Firefox since its original release 21 years ago. Firefox started as an excellent...
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Reviving a Windows Laptop with Linux Tools and ClamAV Rx-Linux
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Reviving a Windows Laptop with Linux Tools and ClamAV

Don Watkins December 18, 2025
1 Recently, I was helping a Windows-using friend transition from her ten-year-old Windows 10 laptop to a...
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Converting to BtrFS — Episode 4 Header-data_stack_blue_disks
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Converting to BtrFS — Episode 4

David Both December 16, 2025
1 In the 3rd episode of this series, I used the btrfs-convert command to convert the EXT4...
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Advanced stress testing for DevOps 20250223-Both.org-Servers-02
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Advanced stress testing for DevOps

David Both December 15, 2025
I recently discovered stress-ng which, while similar to the original stress program, offers far more flexibility and...
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System76 and the New COSMIC Desktop

Don Watkins December 12, 2025
System76 is celebrating 20 years, and they did so by officially releasing Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and the COSMIC desktop....
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Everything you never wanted to know about the /etc/fstab File A cup of coffee on an orange saucer next to a laptop
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Everything you never wanted to know about the /etc/fstab File

David Both December 11, 2025
Mounting of filesystems during the startup process is managed by the /etc/fstab configuration file.
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far the universe is winning.

— Rich Cook

Why I’ve Never Used Windows

On February 12 I gave a presentation at the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) about why I use Linux and why I’ve never used Windows.

Here’s the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/live/uCK_haOXPFM 

Why there’s no such thing as AI

Last October at All Things Open (ATO) I was interviewed by Jason Hibbits of We Love Open Source. It’s posted in the article “Why today’s AI isn’t intelligent (yet)“.

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