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Network Upgrades Completed — Sort of

January 24, 2026
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Saving Public Library Computers With Linux Mint MATE

January 22, 2026January 21, 2026
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Network Upgrades at Both.org

January 21, 2026January 22, 2026
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Why I Didn’t Convert My Primary Workstation to BtrFS

January 21, 2026January 18, 2026
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Create a Linux kiosk at your library

January 20, 2026January 14, 2026
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Writing a fun turn-based game

January 19, 2026January 7, 2026
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Converting to BtrFS — Episode 5

January 16, 2026January 14, 2026
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Why I prefer tar to zip

January 15, 2026January 14, 2026
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Development isn’t over until it’s packaged

January 14, 2026
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AmyJune Hineline is a Drupal core contributor. She currently works with the Linux Foundation as their Certification Community Architect, supporting the Certification team’s efforts in building and maintaining exams and related documentation for exam products in the Linux Foundation’s certification portfolio.
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Version Control Is Not Just for Code

Most editing problems are really problems of change management. When multiple people are editing the same document, spreadsheet, or plan, things can get messy fast....

AmyJune Hineline
December 31, 2025December 24, 2025
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Behind the Badge: Community, Process, and Care in Open Source Exams

Open source certifications are the result of months of people working together across time zones, building trust, and figuring things out as a group. This work is rarely visible from the outside, but it is what gives a credential its credibility.

AmyJune Hineline
December 29, 2025December 21, 2025
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Community Open Source

How to encourage positive online communication in your open source community

The Drupal community uses nudges to keep conversations productive and inclusive. Threaded online conversations are a relatively new form of communication that can improve knowledge...

AmyJune Hineline
December 28, 2023December 27, 2023
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David Both ATO Interview

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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Computers are unreliable; humans are even more unreliable.

— Gilb’s laws of unreliability

Links: Moving to Linux

  • 7 Reasons Fedora Might Be a Better Windows Replacement Than Linux Mint
  • 7 Reasons Why Windows Users Avoid Linux (Which Aren’t True Anymore)
  • Best Linux distros to try before Windows 10 support ends
  • How to switch your Windows 10 PC to Linux Mint – for free
  • I replaced my entire Microsoft Office subscription with free open-source apps
  • Isn’t It Time to Switch to Linux? 12 Reasons to Abandon Windows
  • KDE for W10 Exiles
  • Linux: A true story
  • Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux
  • Why I Switched to Linux From Windows

“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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