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Behind the Badge: Community, Process, and Care in Open Source Exams

December 29, 2025December 21, 2025
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Edit text with this Emacs-like editor

December 27, 2025December 16, 2025
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Automate tasks with FreeDOS BAT files

December 26, 2025December 16, 2025
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2 ways to listen to music on FreeDOS

December 25, 2025December 16, 2025
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Old-school programming with BW BASIC

December 24, 2025December 16, 2025
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How to add and remove packages on FreeDOS

December 23, 2025December 16, 2025
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The FreeDOS editor makes it easy

December 22, 2025December 24, 2025
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4 cool facts about FreeDOS for #DOScember

December 21, 2025December 16, 2025
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When an Apparent DDOS Attack is a Good Thing

December 20, 2025
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Month: August 2025

Linux

An Open-Source AI Tool for Voice Generation

Are you a scientist, developer or just a tinkerer like me? Are you fascinated with the power of AI to generate and clone a human...

Don Watkins
August 11, 2025August 3, 2025
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Linux News Opinion Windows

Microsoft Nonsense

This morning, as I was reading various newsfeeds, I found some news about Microsoft these days. That's not interesting in itself, but the items I'm...

David Both
August 9, 2025August 9, 2025
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Linux Open Source Software Opinion Philosophy

Begin the journey: Why your ethics might require adoption of Free and Open Source Software

My own journey into free software began with my ethics. It was, and is, deeply personal but simultaneously connected to my understanding of the larger world I am a part of.

Denny Henke
August 8, 2025August 8, 2025
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Hardware Linux Right to Repair

Why I support the “Right to Repair”

I have a friend who wanted some help with her Dell laptop. I converted her to Linux several years ago but this system is now...

David Both
August 7, 2025August 7, 2025
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All Things Open Book Signing Linux

David Both to have book signing at ATO

I've just completed arrangements to do a book signing at the All Things Open (ATO) conference this year. I don't yet know when I'll be...

David Both
August 6, 2025August 5, 2025
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FreeDOS QEMU

Booting FreeDOS with two CD-ROM drives

Here’s how I boot FreeDOS with two CD-ROMs in QEMU

Jim Hall
August 5, 2025July 31, 2025
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LibreOffice Open Source Software Tips and tricks

Bulk Document Conversion Made Easy with LibreOffice

 I have many documents created with Microsoft Office for assignments written for graduate school courses years ago. How can I easily convert those dozens of...

Don Watkins
August 4, 2025August 5, 2025
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Linux Opinion Windows

I’m glad I run Linux

Linux puts you in control, Windows does not.

Jim Hall
August 1, 2025August 1, 2025
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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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