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Getting Started with SELinux malware-291793476-cropped
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Getting Started with SELinux

David Both July 15, 2025
SELinux was developed by the NSA to provide a highly secure computing environment. True to the GPL,...
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A Small Algol 68 Project, Part 2 programming_code_keyboard_orange_hands
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A Small Algol 68 Project, Part 2

Chris Hermansen July 14, 2025
In memory of J. Kevin Douglas, a good friend and fellow fan of Algol 68 In the...
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About those livesys error messages osdc_terminals_0
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About those livesys error messages

David Both July 11, 2025
Do you see error messages about livesys and livesys-late on the console and in the systemd journal...
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A Small Algol 68 Project, Part 1 code_development_programming
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A Small Algol 68 Project, Part 1

Chris Hermansen July 10, 2025
In memory of J. Kevin Douglas, a good friend and fellow fan of Algol 68 In the...
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Fedora Repo issues during updates

David Both July 8, 2025
1 As I’ve been doing updates the last few days, I’ve noticed a problem with random systems...
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 24—Reality Bytes zen_rocks_stack_blue_yoga_peace
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 24—Reality Bytes

David Both July 7, 2025
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 26 of my book, The Linux Philosophy...
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How to fix unresolvable file conflict errors upgrading or installing software RPMs How to fix unresolvable file conflict errors upgrading or installing software RPMs
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How to fix unresolvable file conflict errors upgrading or installing software RPMs

David Both July 4, 2025
1 I install updates on a pretty regular basis and — most of the time — they...
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 23—Support your Favorite Open Source Project programming_keyboard_coding
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 23—Support your Favorite Open Source Project

David Both July 3, 2025
1 Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 25 of my book, The Linux...
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Short report on the Perl / Raku Conference

David Both July 1, 2025
1 This past weekend I attended the Perl / Raku conference in Greenville, SC, USA. It was...
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Thinking about Algol 68

Chris Hermansen June 27, 2025
3 In memory of J. Kevin Douglas, a good friend and fellow fan of Algol 68 I...
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 22—Mentor the young SysAdmins testing-linux
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 22—Mentor the young SysAdmins

David Both June 25, 2025
When I first started, I was a young and innocent SysAdmin. I was fortunate because I worked...
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Do I have enough space for that? data_stack_blue_disks
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Do I have enough space for that?

Jim Hall June 24, 2025
A little scripting goes a long way to make sure you won't run out of space with...
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A beginner’s guide to dc Undated photograph, probably circa late nineteen sixties of a Unix developers Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at a DEC PDP 11 computer running Unix. In the left of the photo, Ritchie is standing and watching Thompson, who is sitting at one of two teletype terminals used as consoles to interface with the computer.
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A beginner’s guide to dc

Jim Hall June 23, 2025
Learn the basics of this handy command line calculator.
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Strange problems with switches rh_003499_01_other21x_cc
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Strange problems with switches

David Both June 19, 2025
1 Network switches are supposed to be simple devices that work at TCP/IP layer 1, the hardware...
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Nextcloud is a snap

Don Watkins June 18, 2025
Recently I have been tasked with assisting a local medical office with finding a new way to...
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Website problems circumvented

David Both June 17, 2025
We had a problem with the Both.org website this morning. After a bit of problem determination I...
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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 

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