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An interview with Jim Hall about FreeDOS

May 14, 2025May 14, 2025
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Celebrating 20 Years of ODF: The Backbone of Open Standards

May 13, 2025May 5, 2025
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How I use GNU Indent

May 12, 2025May 5, 2025
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AI Malware strikes curl developers

May 10, 2025May 8, 2025
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Emulating systems with QEMU

May 9, 2025May 9, 2025
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Make typing faster with the Keebio BDN9 macro pad

May 8, 2025May 4, 2025
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Code like it’s the 1980s

May 7, 2025May 4, 2025
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Standard UNIX password manager

May 6, 2025
9

GIMP: the free Photoshop alternative

May 5, 2025May 1, 2025
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Month: March 2025

Linux

Open Source on macOS: Exploring Free Software on My M3 MacBook

Lead Image by Tom's Hardware Guide Open-source software is not restricted to Linux. While I spend most of my time reading, writing, and developing on...

Don Watkins
March 31, 2025March 29, 2025
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Linux Write for Us

Call for articles — Switching to Linux

October 14, 2025 is the last day of support for Win10 and over 400 million PCs can't upgrade to Win11. I see lots of posts...

David Both
March 29, 2025April 1, 2025
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Security Windows

Microsoft Warns 1 Billion Windows Users—Do Not Use Password

This headline on Forbes is not quite as strange as it looks at first. The article is about how Microsoft is trying to move that...

David Both
March 28, 2025
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Linux Opinion

Moving from Windows 10 to Linux

Instead of purchasing a new computer just to run a new version of Windows, consider installing Linux.

Jim Hall
March 27, 2025
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Documentation Linux

The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 18—Document everything

“Real programmers don’t comment their code, if it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand and harder to modify.”

— unknown

David Both
March 26, 2025March 24, 2025
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Linux Privacy Security

Signal Messenger: Privacy, Simplified with Open Source

Messaging apps have revolutionized communication, reshaping our daily lives and relationships. It’s hard to imagine a time without SMS paving the way for near-instant connectivity....

Don Watkins
March 25, 2025March 30, 2025
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Bash Documentation Text Editors Tips and tricks Tools

Create a patch from differences in a file with the diff and patch commands

When you collaborate on a digital project with someone, it's a guarantee that eventually someone's going to need to send you changes they've made to...

Seth Kenlon
March 24, 2025March 24, 2025
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File Management Linux

Connect to a Windows drive from Linux

Here’s how I connected my Linux system to a Windows AD fileshare.

Jim Hall
March 21, 2025March 8, 2025
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FreeDOS Linux Programming

Reading a whole file at once

Two methods to load a data file into memory. Use mmap on Linux sysetms.

Jim Hall
March 20, 2025March 20, 2025
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FreeDOS Programming

Old-school programming with Turbo C

Explore retroprogramming on FreeDOS with this popular freeware IDE.

Jim Hall
March 19, 2025March 20, 2025
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Linux Multimedia

Openclipart.org: A Treasure Trove of Free Vector Images

I am not a talented artist, but I enjoy using graphics for greeting cards, posters, and occasionally hoodies or t-shirts. When I need an image...

Don Watkins
March 18, 2025March 8, 2025
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Command Line Linux

Update Linux from the command line

Be a power user by updating your system from the command line.

Jim Hall
March 17, 2025March 8, 2025
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FreeDOS Fun Programming

Calculate pi by counting pixels

This is a very simple way to measure pi, but it was a fun exercise and I wanted to share it.

Jim Hall
March 14, 2025January 27, 2025
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Curiosity Kernel Linux Musings

Kernel musings

Being a curious sort of person, I wonder about a lot of interesting things. For some reason, I've started wondering about the Linux kernel and...

David Both
March 13, 2025March 7, 2025
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AI Opinion

Don’t skip the learning process

Using AI as a tool to do a thing still relies on knowing how to do the thing yourself.

Jim Hall
March 12, 2025March 6, 2025
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Linux Open Source Software System Administration Tools

btop — the top of my dreams

The top program is the original system monitoring and management tool for Unix and Linux. It performs its task well and with a minimum of...

David Both
March 11, 2025March 11, 2025
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May 13,2025

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