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Is there a better Pi Day than March 14?

March 14, 2026March 14, 2026
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Let’s measure pi with a Raspberry Pi

March 13, 2026October 17, 2025
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Why I Really Like Linux

March 12, 2026March 13, 2026
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California’s age verification law is bad for open source

March 10, 2026March 9, 2026
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Announcing the 3rd Edition of “Using and Administering Linux”

March 7, 2026March 7, 2026
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Fresh KDE Innovation Meets Ubuntu Stability

March 5, 2026March 4, 2026
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Make your first contribution to open source

March 2, 2026February 28, 2026
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The Fedora “Everything” 43 Image Changes Everything

February 27, 2026March 13, 2026
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Getting Help for Linux

February 24, 2026February 24, 2026
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Cross-platform Text Editors

The best 3 cross-platform text editors

Sometimes you just need raw text with no styles like a word processor. Here are three text editors that give you just that.

Seth Kenlon
January 30, 2024January 20, 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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Bash Code Command Line

Using logical operators on the Bash command line

Add powerful logic to the command line with control operators in compound commands.

David Both
January 28, 2024January 21, 2024
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Applications Open Source

Millions of Openly Licensed Images and More at Your Fingertips

Openverse is an open-source search engine that contains over 700 million openly licensed images, audio clips, and more.

Don Watkins
January 27, 2024January 27, 2024
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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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Command Line LibreOffice

Supercharge LibreOffice with Command Line Automation

Did you know that one of LibreOffice’s powers is the ability to operate from the command line like converting documents from one format to another?

Don Watkins
January 22, 2024January 22, 2024
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Git

My favorite Git tools

Git reflog, git gc, git bisect, and git worktree are just a few of the tools I use routinely.

mcdwayne
January 21, 2024January 11, 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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Git

Find bugs with the git bisect command

Git’s bisect tool saves time and energy by quickly identifying a bad commit.

mcdwayne
January 19, 2024January 10, 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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macOS

How I switched from Docker Desktop to Colima

Colima is a Docker Desktop alternative for macOS and Linux that’s now supported by DDEV.

ultimike
January 17, 2024January 13, 2024
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Development Git

Learn Git: 3 commands to level up your skill

Learn how to use git squash, git rebase, and git cherry-pick.

mcdwayne
January 16, 2024January 9, 2024
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Git

Git concepts in less than 10 minutes

Understanding Git is essential to open source development, but it can be intimidating to learn. Let this tutorial be your first step to getting to know Git.

mcdwayne
January 15, 2024January 9, 2024
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Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

— Linus Torvalds

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 

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)“.

“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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