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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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Breaking Free from Windows 10: KDE Plasma Is Your Upgrade to Freedom KDE-Plasma-10-Desktop
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Breaking Free from Windows 10: KDE Plasma Is Your Upgrade to Freedom

Don Watkins June 17, 2025
1 October 14, 2025, is a big day if you’re a Microsoft Windows user. That’s the day...
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I need a list of URLs

Jim Hall June 16, 2025
I used the command line to do in seconds what would have needed more than ten minutes...
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Cyndi: My open source story — Linux, the loyal friend

David Both June 13, 2025
Editor’s note: Cyndi is my yoga teacher and the coauthor of our book, “Linux for Small Business...
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How to remove a stuck kernel from GRUB

Jim Hall June 12, 2025
Here's how to fix the GRUB menu configuration from the command line.
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What USB device is that?

Jim Hall June 11, 2025
Use kernel messages to identify which disk device you can mount.
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How to selectively apply updates

Jim Hall June 10, 2025
Here’s how I selectively apply updates, excluding any kernel packages.
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Straight quotes from pandoc

Jim Hall June 9, 2025
Change pandoc's curly quotes into straight quotes with this script.
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Viewing PDF documents in console mode

Jim Hall June 6, 2025
1 I have a Raspberry Pi 3 that’s sat unused for the last few years. I used...
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AI Terror: The struggle to stay alive

David Both June 5, 2025
I recently wrote about an AI that used blackmail to prevent its developers from shutting it down...
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Loving the command line with the Raspberry Pi

Jim Hall June 4, 2025
I’m going to show my age when I share that my first Unix system was a Sun...
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 21—There is no should

David Both June 3, 2025
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 23 of my book, The Linux Philosophy...
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Writing with open source tools

Jim Hall June 2, 2025
Aside from my other work, I also teach a few university courses about technical writing. One class...
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New Linux vulnerabilities allow access to critical data

David Both June 1, 2025
Two new vulnerabilities in the core dump handlers for Ubuntu, RHEL, and Fedora, allow access to critical...
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Extracting text with awk

Jim Hall May 30, 2025
The awk script interpreter is a very handy tool for systems administrators, and anyone else who uses...
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My first sysadmin mistake

Jim Hall May 29, 2025
1 If you work in IT, you know that things never go completely as you think they...
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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 

David Both ATO Interview

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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