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Cyndi: My open source story — Linux, the loyal friend

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How to remove a stuck kernel from GRUB

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What USB device is that?

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How to selectively apply updates

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Straight quotes from pandoc

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Viewing PDF documents in console mode

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AI Terror: The struggle to stay alive

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Loving the command line with the Raspberry Pi

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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 21—There is no should

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Month: April 2025

Linux Moving to Linux Open Source Software Software

How to find Open Source Software to replace your Windows software

Author's note: This article is based on Chapter 6 of my book, "Linux for Small Business Owners," with my coauthor and yoga teacher Cyndi Bulka....

David Both
April 30, 2025April 30, 2025
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Linux

Mastering Screenshots with KDE Spectacle:

Writing blog posts that share my experiences with Linux and open-source software often requires screenshots of accomplishing a task or an expected outcome. Over time,...

Don Watkins
April 29, 2025April 24, 2025
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FAIL! Fedora Linux Security Updates

Beware Fedora updates of April 28, 2025

It breaks iptables with no warning I'm rather angry right now but I promise to remain calm -- at least in this post. I just...

David Both
April 28, 2025May 9, 2025
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Linux

Learning to use System Settings in Fedora KDE Plasma

I have been using Fedora with the KDE Plasma desktop environment for almost three months, and overall, it’s been a wonderful experience. However, I’ve encountered...

Don Watkins
April 28, 2025April 23, 2025
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Programming

Draw in color using Portable Pix Maps

Create colorful images using the Portable Pix Map format.

Jim Hall
April 25, 2025April 19, 2025
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Linux

The duf command

The duf command is an advanced form of the df command that uses boxes to separate the storage device types into local, fuse (User space file storage), and special devices.

David Both
April 24, 2025April 24, 2025
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Programming

Grayscale images with Portable Gray Maps

Learn to write grayscale images using the Portable Gray Map format.

Jim Hall
April 23, 2025April 19, 2025
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Cinnamon Desktop Linux

Five things I like about the Cinnamon desktop

I’m not a distro-hopper; I’m a desktop-hopper. But I try many different desktops just to see what they’re like. Cinnamon boasts features usually found only in desktops with much greater resource consumption, like GNOME or KDE Plasma 6.X.

David Both
April 22, 2025April 19, 2025
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Programming

Write tiny images using PBM

The Portable Bit Map (“PBM”) image file format was invented in the 1980s as a way to transmit small black and white images as plain...

Jim Hall
April 21, 2025April 19, 2025
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Linux Upgrades

My first impressions of Fedora 42

You might be aware that I upgraded all of the Both.org systems over the last two days, moving from F41 to F42. That process was...

David Both
April 18, 2025April 18, 2025
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Linux Outage Upgrades

Fedora 42 upgrades at Both.org

Fedora 42 was released today, and I've been upgrading my systems. So far I've only done my internal systems and not the Both.org server or...

David Both
April 15, 2025April 15, 2025
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Linux

Fedora 42 has been released

It's now 21 years since Fedora Core 1 was originally released in November of 2003, and it's still maintaining its planned 6-month release cycle. Today,...

David Both
April 15, 2025April 15, 2025
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Linux Opinion Windows

Five reasons for Windows users to move to Linux

Take back your power As the October deadline for dumping Windows 10 is fast approaching, many users are considering their options. This is for many...

David Both
April 14, 2025April 13, 2025
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Books Linux News

Linux News

There are two items of interesting Linux news today. Fedora 42 The first is that Fedora 42 will be officially released on Tuesday, April 15,...

David Both
April 10, 2025
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FreeDOS

Get started with FreeDOS 1.4

A lot has happened in DOS since FreeDOS 1.3. Here’s what to expect in FreeDOS 1.4, available now.

Jim Hall
April 9, 2025April 7, 2025
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Linux News Opinion Windows

Breaking News – M$ Allows older computers to install Windows 11

Microsoft has finally bowed to the inevitable and changed their draconian stance on older computers. They'll now allow older computers to install Windows 11 despite...

David Both
April 8, 2025April 9, 2025
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