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Reviving a Windows Laptop with Linux Tools and ClamAV

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Converting to BtrFS — Episode 4

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Advanced stress testing for DevOps

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System76 and the New COSMIC Desktop

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Everything you never wanted to know about the /etc/fstab File

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Gift ideas for 2025

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Month: November 2023

Linux

Bash Prompt Changed in Fedora 39

The Fedora development mailing lists have been talking about a new prompt for the Bash shell for some time. The idea was to add some...

David Both
November 24, 2023November 24, 2023
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Linux Problem Solving

Strange Windows Failure Explained

Back in August I wrote a post about helping a friend who had a problem with her laptop. I had determined that a strange but...

David Both
November 22, 2023December 9, 2023
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Fedora Linux Upgrades

Fedora 39 Released

Fedora 39 was released on November 7, 2023, 20 years and 1 day after Fedora Core 1. A lot has changed in that time. More...

David Both
November 15, 2023November 15, 2023
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All Things Open Book Signing

ATO Pictures

The pictures from ATO 2023 have been posted and there are some good ones of me. These were all taken by the official ATO photographer....

David Both
November 9, 2023October 11, 2025
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Linux Using and Administering Linux

2nd Edition of Book Series Makes Two Amazon Best Seller Lists

All three volumes in the 2nd Edition of my Using and Administering Linux – Zero to SysAdmin series Linux self-study course have made the Amazon...

David Both
November 6, 2023November 6, 2023
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All Things Open Linux

ATO Book Signing and Video

James Robinson-Prior, my Senior Editor at Apress traveled all the way from London, UK, for my book signing at ATO. He took some pictures and...

David Both
November 1, 2023November 1, 2023
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If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.

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“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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