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Linux News

David Both April 10, 2025
There are two items of interesting Linux news today. Fedora 42 The first is that Fedora 42...
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Get started with FreeDOS 1.4

Jim Hall April 9, 2025
A lot has happened in DOS since FreeDOS 1.3. Here's what to expect in FreeDOS 1.4, available...
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Breaking News – M$ Allows older computers to install Windows 11 Fireworks-09
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Breaking News – M$ Allows older computers to install Windows 11

David Both April 8, 2025
1 Microsoft has finally bowed to the inevitable and changed their draconian stance on older computers. They’ll...
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Why does M$ require so much personal information?

David Both April 8, 2025
Microsoft is really getting insistent about requiring an account before you can install new versions of Windows....
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Using Linux on Apple Silicon

Don Watkins April 7, 2025
I bought an M3 MacBook Air last fall to experiment with AI tools and LLMs that were...
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A Fresh Start with Linux Mint

Don Watkins April 4, 2025
A few weeks ago, someone at the faith community I attend asked for my help logging into...
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It should be fun

David Both April 3, 2025
Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation...
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 19—Backup everything frequently Extedrnal-HDD
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 19—Backup everything frequently

David Both April 2, 2025
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 21 of my book, The Linux Philosophy...
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Microsoft announces significant changes to Windows

David Both April 1, 2025
3 In a sudden and short press conference early this morning, Microsoft has announced that Windows will...
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Open Source on macOS: Exploring Free Software on My M3 MacBook

Don Watkins March 31, 2025
Lead Image by Tom’s Hardware Guide Open-source software is not restricted to Linux. While I spend most...
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Call for articles — Switching to Linux

David Both March 29, 2025
1 October 14, 2025 is the last day of support for Win10 and over 400 million PCs...
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Microsoft Warns 1 Billion Windows Users—Do Not Use Password

David Both March 28, 2025
This headline on Forbes is not quite as strange as it looks at first. The article is...
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Moving from Windows 10 to Linux

Jim Hall March 27, 2025
Instead of purchasing a new computer just to run a new version of Windows, consider installing Linux.
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 18—Document everything look-at
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 18—Document everything

David Both March 26, 2025
"Real programmers don't comment their code, if it was hard to write, it should be hard to...
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Signal Messenger: Privacy, Simplified with Open Source

Don Watkins March 25, 2025
Messaging apps have revolutionized communication, reshaping our daily lives and relationships. It’s hard to imagine a time...
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Create a patch from differences in a file with the diff and patch commands

Seth Kenlon March 24, 2025
When you collaborate on a digital project with someone, it’s a guarantee that eventually someone’s going to...
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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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