Open Source on macOS: Exploring Free Software on My M3 MacBook
Lead Image by Tom's Hardware Guide Open-source software is not restricted to Linux. While I spend most of my time reading, writing, and developing on...
Call for articles — Switching to Linux
October 14, 2025 is the last day of support for Win10 and over 400 million PCs can't upgrade to Win11. I see lots of posts...
The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 18—Document everything
“Real programmers don’t comment their code, if it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand and harder to modify.”
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Signal Messenger: Privacy, Simplified with Open Source
Messaging apps have revolutionized communication, reshaping our daily lives and relationships. It’s hard to imagine a time without SMS paving the way for near-instant connectivity....
Connect to a Windows drive from Linux
Here’s how I connected my Linux system to a Windows AD fileshare.
Reading a whole file at once
Two methods to load a data file into memory. Use mmap on Linux sysetms.
Update Linux from the command line
Be a power user by updating your system from the command line.
Kernel musings
Being a curious sort of person, I wonder about a lot of interesting things. For some reason, I've started wondering about the Linux kernel and...
btop — the top of my dreams
The top program is the original system monitoring and management tool for Unix and Linux. It performs its task well and with a minimum of...
Perl and Raku Conference will be held June 27-29, 2025 in Greenville, SC, USA
David Both to be the keynote speaker The Perl and Raku Conference for 2025 is coming up June 27-29, 2025, and it’s set to be...
Text fun with Inkscape
Inkscape is one of my favorite open-source graphic design tools. It has an intuitive interface that is relatively easy to master. As I learned to...
Selective updates using ‘dnf’
Here’s how I update my system except for one problem library
The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 17— Use your favorite editor
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 19 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with some changes to update the...
What our system maintenance this past weekend says about Linux
I've been thinking a lot about the system maintenance I performed on Saturday, February 22. Prior to that day, I thought about what needed to...
Resurrecting a Windows laptop
Recently, a friend gave me a recent model of a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion laptop. He said, “It turns on but goes off almost immediately. Maybe you...
Fix SELinux problems with this little-known option
SELinux is a security subsystem that works to prevent files and code from running from places they don't belong. It's a big complex system that's...
