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GUI disk usage analyzers in Linux

Don Watkins August 1, 2024
For people who prefer visual representations, these GUI-based tools help you understand how your storage capacity is...
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Tweak your system performance with ‘noatime’

Jim Hall April 11, 2024
Turn off “access time” to make a slight but noticeable improvement on system performance.
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Mastering Storage Management on Linux

Don Watkins April 2, 2024
Knowing how much of your disk is being used by your files is an important consideration, no...
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A Linux user’s guide to Logical Volume Management

David Both March 26, 2024
Managing disk space has always been a significant task for sysadmins. Running out of disk space used...
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System upgrades this Sunday, May 3

Tools illustrationFedora 44 was released this week and I’ve upgraded all my systems except for the two that directly affect Both.org. I’ll be upgrading the hosts for my server and firewall to Fedora 44 this Sunday afternoon, May 3.

Both.org will be down for most of the afternoon for these upgrades.

Thanks for your patience.

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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 to program.

— Linus Torvalds

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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