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Flexible updates with Linux

David Both November 21, 2025
Flexibility is an important consideration when performing updates to your operating system. Linux gets it right.
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How to selectively apply updates

Jim Hall June 10, 2025
Here’s how I selectively apply updates, excluding any kernel packages.
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Beware Fedora updates of April 28, 2025

David Both April 28, 2025
1 It breaks iptables with no warning I’m rather angry right now but I promise to remain...
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How to do updates on the command line How to do updates on the command line
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How to do updates on the command line

David Both January 16, 2025
Keeping your Linux computer as safe as possible from various types of cyber attacks is only possible...
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Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

— Gilb’s laws of unreliability

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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