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Best Linux Distros for Windows Users: From Mint to Pop!_OS

October 2, 2025September 27, 2025
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VirtualBox 7.2.2 fails to start VMs

October 1, 2025September 30, 2025
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7 ways I use ed every day

September 30, 2025September 21, 2025
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3 ways I use aliases in FreeDOS

September 29, 2025October 2, 2025
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Save the Computers

September 26, 2025September 27, 2025
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Interview with Marcel van der Veer

September 25, 2025September 29, 2025
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End of 10 event success

September 22, 2025September 22, 2025
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SourceForge is ending free personal web hosting

September 18, 2025September 17, 2025
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Triangle Linux Users Group to hold installfest

September 17, 2025September 17, 2025
Programming

Draw in color using Portable Pix Maps

Create colorful images using the Portable Pix Map format.

Jim Hall
April 25, 2025April 19, 2025
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Linux

The duf command

The duf command is an advanced form of the df command that uses boxes to separate the storage device types into local, fuse (User space file storage), and special devices.

David Both
April 24, 2025April 24, 2025
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Programming

Grayscale images with Portable Gray Maps

Learn to write grayscale images using the Portable Gray Map format.

Jim Hall
April 23, 2025April 19, 2025
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Cinnamon Desktop Linux

Five things I like about the Cinnamon desktop

I’m not a distro-hopper; I’m a desktop-hopper. But I try many different desktops just to see what they’re like. Cinnamon boasts features usually found only in desktops with much greater resource consumption, like GNOME or KDE Plasma 6.X.

David Both
April 22, 2025April 19, 2025
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Programming

Write tiny images using PBM

The Portable Bit Map (“PBM”) image file format was invented in the 1980s as a way to transmit small black and white images as plain...

Jim Hall
April 21, 2025April 19, 2025
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Linux Upgrades

My first impressions of Fedora 42

You might be aware that I upgraded all of the Both.org systems over the last two days, moving from F41 to F42. That process was...

David Both
April 18, 2025April 18, 2025
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Linux Outage Upgrades

Fedora 42 upgrades at Both.org

Fedora 42 was released today, and I've been upgrading my systems. So far I've only done my internal systems and not the Both.org server or...

David Both
April 15, 2025April 15, 2025
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Linux

Fedora 42 has been released

It's now 21 years since Fedora Core 1 was originally released in November of 2003, and it's still maintaining its planned 6-month release cycle. Today,...

David Both
April 15, 2025April 15, 2025
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Linux Opinion Windows

Five reasons for Windows users to move to Linux

Take back your power As the October deadline for dumping Windows 10 is fast approaching, many users are considering their options. This is for many...

David Both
April 14, 2025April 13, 2025
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Books Linux News

Linux News

There are two items of interesting Linux news today. Fedora 42 The first is that Fedora 42 will be officially released on Tuesday, April 15,...

David Both
April 10, 2025
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FreeDOS

Get started with FreeDOS 1.4

A lot has happened in DOS since FreeDOS 1.3. Here’s what to expect in FreeDOS 1.4, available now.

Jim Hall
April 9, 2025April 7, 2025
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Linux News Opinion Windows

Breaking News – M$ Allows older computers to install Windows 11

Microsoft has finally bowed to the inevitable and changed their draconian stance on older computers. They'll now allow older computers to install Windows 11 despite...

David Both
April 8, 2025April 9, 2025
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Freedom Linux Open Source Opinion

Why does M$ require so much personal information?

Microsoft is really getting insistent about requiring an account before you can install new versions of Windows. They're even blocking known circumventions in order to...

David Both
April 8, 2025April 6, 2025
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Linux

Using Linux on Apple Silicon

I bought an M3 MacBook Air last fall to experiment with AI tools and LLMs that were available for use on Apple Silicon.

Don Watkins
April 7, 2025April 7, 2025
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Linux Moving to Linux

A Fresh Start with Linux Mint

A few weeks ago, someone at the faith community I attend asked for my help logging into their computer. I suspected it might have been...

Don Watkins
April 4, 2025March 31, 2025
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Fun Linux Opinion

It should be fun

Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun...

David Both
April 3, 2025March 31, 2025
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“systemd for SysAdmins” Now Available

May 13,2025

My latest book — a #1 New Release on Amazon — “systemd for Linux  SysAdmins” is now available from my publisher, Apress, and on Amazon.

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