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Begin the Journey: Finding a practical starting point with Free Open Source Software DippingToes_0
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Begin the Journey: Finding a practical starting point with Free Open Source Software

Denny Henke August 13, 2025
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on 2025-07-20 at https://beardystarstuff.net/ and is reproduced here with the...
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The IBM PC — 44 years old today IBM-PC-GettyImages-90738405
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The IBM PC — 44 years old today

David Both August 12, 2025
On August 12, 1981, the IBM PC — the IBM 5150 — was announced to the world....
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An Open-Source AI Tool for Voice Generation fedora-jam-cropped
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An Open-Source AI Tool for Voice Generation

Don Watkins August 11, 2025
Are you a scientist, developer or just a tinkerer like me? Are you fascinated with the power...
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Microsoft Nonsense ...at the Painted Desert
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Microsoft Nonsense

David Both August 9, 2025
This morning, as I was reading various newsfeeds, I found some news about Microsoft these days. That’s...
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Begin the journey: Why your ethics might require adoption of Free and Open Source Software myopensourcestory
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Begin the journey: Why your ethics might require adoption of Free and Open Source Software

Denny Henke August 8, 2025
My own journey into free software began with my ethics. It was, and is, deeply personal but...
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Why I support the “Right to Repair” Tools illustration
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Why I support the “Right to Repair”

David Both August 7, 2025
I have a friend who wanted some help with her Dell laptop. I converted her to Linux...
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David Both to have book signing at ATO

David Both August 6, 2025
I’ve just completed arrangements to do a book signing at the All Things Open (ATO) conference this...
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Booting FreeDOS with two CD-ROM drives Illustration: laptop with a picture on side and plant on the other
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Booting FreeDOS with two CD-ROM drives

Jim Hall August 5, 2025
Here's how I boot FreeDOS with two CD-ROMs in QEMU
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Bulk Document Conversion Made Easy with LibreOffice LibreOffice logo
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Bulk Document Conversion Made Easy with LibreOffice

Don Watkins August 4, 2025
 I have many documents created with Microsoft Office for assignments written for graduate school courses years ago....
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I’m glad I run Linux OSDC_Penguin_Image_520x292_12324207_0714_mm_v1a
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I’m glad I run Linux

Jim Hall August 1, 2025
Linux puts you in control, Windows does not.
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Tips for faster note taking with Joplin wfh_work_home_laptop_work
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Tips for faster note taking with Joplin

Don Watkins July 31, 2025
Joplin has become my default note-taking app. I use it for everything, whether short notes on what...
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Disk Disaster A black and white photo showing a row of IBM 2314 disk drives with a man mounting a removable disk pack.
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Disk Disaster

David Both July 30, 2025
Sometimes you’re fortunate enough to be on the periphery of an IT disaster and not the cause...
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Ten moments that shaped Linux Screenshot of the original Linux announcement by Linus Torvalds
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Ten moments that shaped Linux

Alan Formy-Duval July 29, 2025
1 This article was originally posted on opensource.com. It’s been updated and is published here with the...
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My six tenets for learning to be a Linux SysAdmin OSDC_Penguin_Image_520x292_12324207_0714_mm_v1a-Cropped
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My six tenets for learning to be a Linux SysAdmin

Antwan Beckett July 28, 2025
5 I have been working with Linux operating systems for a little over a year and a...
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Three surprising reasons I like the Cinnamon desktop F42-Cinnamon-04
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Three surprising reasons I like the Cinnamon desktop

David Both July 25, 2025
1 I wrote about my five reasons to like Cinnamon back in April, and in the time...
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My worst self-inflicted IT disaster IBM-403-514-02
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My worst self-inflicted IT disaster

David Both July 24, 2025
1 I’ve managed to stuff up many times over the more than 50 years I’ve worked in...
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far the universe is winning.

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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 

Why there’s no such thing as AI

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)“.

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