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A look at Fedora 43 Server Edition

February 4, 2026February 3, 2026
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Reasons for Moving to Linux

February 2, 2026February 2, 2026
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Triangle Linux User Group (TriLUG) February Meeting

January 29, 2026January 29, 2026
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Update on my Oldest Computer

January 27, 2026January 28, 2026
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Why I Installed Fedora Server on My Primary Workstation — and How

January 26, 2026January 26, 2026
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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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Category: Linux

Linux systemd

systemd — #6: Control your computer time and date with systemd

Keep your computer time in sync with NTP, Chrony, and systemd-timesyncd.

David Both
February 16, 2024February 7, 2024
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Linux systemd

systemd — #5: How I manage startup using systemd

systemd starts as many services as possible in parallel during the Linux startup sequence. Learn how to create a new systemd service and how to determine the order in which services start within that parallelism.

David Both
February 15, 2024April 27, 2025
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Community Linux Open Source

Open Hearts, Open Source: Celebrating Valentine’s Day with Creativity and Community

It’s Valentine’s day so we have to share the love!

Don Watkins
February 14, 2024February 1, 2024
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Linux Open Source Software

Explore the cosmos from your armchair

Remember the days when exploring the cosmos meant bundling up, venturing out into the night, and hoping your local planetarium wasn't booked solid? Those stargazing...

Don Watkins
February 9, 2024January 31, 2024
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Linux systemd

systemd — #4: How to use systemd as a troubleshooting tool

systemd is powerful troubleshooting tool. The information we can extract from it points the way toward solving problems.

David Both
February 8, 2024February 8, 2024
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Fixing problems Linux

How I hacked my Linux system with a Live USB device

I used a Fedora Live USB to hack into my systems, enter recovery mode, and resolve a problem that I’d created on multiple computers.

David Both
February 7, 2024January 25, 2024
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Command Line Linux Tools

Check disk usage in Linux

Using these tools can show how much of your disk is being used no matter how much storage you have.

Don Watkins
February 5, 2024January 22, 2024
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Linux System Administration systemd

systemd — #2: Understanding Linux startup with systemd

systemd’s startup provides important clues to help you solve problems when they occur.

David Both
February 4, 2024February 4, 2024
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Linux System Administration systemd SystemV

systemd — #1: Learning to love systemd

systemd is the mother of all processes, responsible for bringing the Linux host up to a state where productive work can be done.

David Both
February 3, 2024January 29, 2024
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Linux Opinion

How the 9 major tenets of the Unix/Linux philosophy affect you

The Linux Philosophy is not just a historical curiosity — it’s more relevant today than ever.

David Both
January 29, 2024July 6, 2025
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Linux

Top 5 mistakes every new Linux terminal user makes

Avoid these comman mistakes, and find out how to become an expert in the terminal.

Seth Kenlon
January 26, 2024January 22, 2024
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Community Linux Opinion

The impact of the Linux philosophy

The philosophy of an operating system matters. The Linux philosophy matters to the operating system and to the community.

David Both
January 25, 2024January 28, 2024
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Linux

Project Browser: Finding And Installing Drupal Modules In A Few Clicks

Project Browser Initiative is aimed at providing an easy process of discovering and installing contributed modules directly from the Drupal admin UI.

Nadine Nykolaichuk
January 24, 2024January 18, 2024
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Linux System Administration

How I use cron in Linux

Scheduling tasks with cron means programs can run but you don’t have to stay up late.

David Both
January 23, 2024January 15, 2024
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Linux Text Editors Tools Vim

How I configure Vim as my default editor on Linux

Vim is my favorite editor. These changes to my system make Vim available as the default in programs that use a different editor by default.

David Both
January 20, 2024January 15, 2024
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Hardware Linux

Arming Open Source Software for the Future

Future to bring more ARM servers in the data center and cloud than X64 systems.

Erik Benner
January 18, 2024January 14, 2024
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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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If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.

— Laws of Computer Programming

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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