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Converting to BtrFS

November 11, 2025November 11, 2025
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13 years is a long time for a laptop

November 10, 2025November 8, 2025
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Problems updating QT5 on Fedora 43

November 7, 2025November 7, 2025
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Fedora 43 breaks my books

November 7, 2025
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Electric nonsense

November 6, 2025November 5, 2025
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Installing Fedora 43 Minimal on a Raspberry Pi

November 5, 2025November 5, 2025
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Installing Fedora 43 Xfce

November 4, 2025November 3, 2025
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Reviving an Old Laptop with Linux Mint

November 3, 2025October 29, 2025
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Fedora 43 — A Second Look

November 1, 2025October 31, 2025
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Year: 2025

FreeDOS History Installation

Looking ahead to FreeDOS 1.4

Help test the next version of FreeDOS with the FreeDOS 1.4 Release Candidate 1 distribution.

Jim Hall
January 7, 2025January 2, 2025
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Linux System Administration Tools

Using htop to manage your Linux system

I use a lot of tools in my daily SysAdmin role. One of the most important ones in my toolkit is htop. The htop program...

David Both
January 6, 2025January 2, 2025
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Linux

Etherpad: Revolutionizing Real-Time Collaboration

A conversation with a friend today led me to remember Etherpad. In an age of digital collaboration, finding the right tool to facilitate effective teamwork is...

Don Watkins
January 3, 2025December 29, 2024
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Command Line Linux

Processing files with ‘find’ and ‘xargs’

Here’s how I used ‘find’ and ‘xargs’ to locate the articles I wrote and count the words.

Jim Hall
January 2, 2025
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Linux My Linux Story

My mom requests a Linux computer

Image by: Opensource.com Editor’s note: This article by David Both was published by Opensource.com on November 16, 2015. It’s republished here without changes by permission...

David Both
January 1, 2025December 29, 2024
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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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