Top Eleven Articles on AI this year
These days, there is a growing excitement about artificial intelligence and its potential benefits. Whether you support or criticize this technology, opinions and experiences are...
How I create encrypted passwords
I sometimes need to create an encrypted password for use in scripts when adding one or more new user accounts to hosts in my lab....
How many releases of Fedora can I upgrade from?
Upgrades are an important part of a SysAdmin's job, whether you know you're one or not. If you think about updates and upgrades, then you...
Best Articles of 2024 about Linux system tools
Linux has many excellent tools that allow SysAdmins to manage our systems. We've published many articles this year about those tools, and here are 9...
Happy birthday Both.org
On December 11, 2023. Both.org morphed from being simply my personal website to being a replacement for Opensource.com (OSDC). On that day, a small group...
How to install FreeDOS the old-school way
Here’s how to install FreeDOS the old-fashioned way, with every step done by hand.
Remove Background from Photos for Holiday Card Creation with Python
You can use open-source tools to produce holiday cards this year. Suppose you have a great photo of your family or grandchildren, but it was...
Embracing the Festive Spirit: Celebrating Holidays Open Source Style!
The holiday season is upon us once again, and this year, I decided to celebrate in an open-source way. Like a particular famous holiday busybody,...
Top 5 open source stories of 2024
2024 has been an interesting year in the news for many reasons. The open source world has been generating a lot of news this year....
Stupid SysAdmin tricks
When working on multiple remote systemd using the command line -- Be sure you're working in the terminal for the correct system before entering the...
Why doesn’t my dict command work?
I upgraded to Fedora 41 as soon as it became available about a month ago. Most things worked as expected, but the dict command started...
Embracing Open-Source Solutions in the Age of AI: A Path to Digital Independence
Everywhere you look, whether in print or on the web, the rage is AI. I’m part of the group that sees potential in machine learning...
Fedora rescue mode fails
Have you ever noticed the bottom line on the GRUB bootloader menu? Well, you won't unless you're looking for it during the very first part...
Linux signals — sending system-level commands to programs
A user and SysAdmin guide Let's say you've got a program running that you want to terminate. Or that you want to power off or...
How Markdown empowers technical writers
I've long been a writer, but writing and publishing have been challenging. Pencil or pen and paper and then endless sheets of paper for rewrites....
How I find and kill rogue programs
As useful and important as Firefox is to my ability to interact with the outside world, create on this website, manage my money, and much...