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5 reasons to love init car-penguin-drive-linux-yellow
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5 reasons to love init

Seth Kenlon February 17, 2025
The init system of an operating system is the component that starts all the programs that run...
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5 reasons to love systemd Network components
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5 reasons to love systemd

Seth Kenlon February 14, 2025
There’s a lot happening on modern computers. Applications run in the background, automated events wait to be...
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Updates fix KDE Plasma issues KDE-Plasma-10-Desktop
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Updates fix KDE Plasma issues

David Both February 13, 2025
If you’ve been reading Both.org for a few months, you’ll know that I have two favorite desktops....
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Open-Source Robotics: The Best Linux-Based Frameworks for Building Intelligent Machines gears-01
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Open-Source Robotics: The Best Linux-Based Frameworks for Building Intelligent Machines

Saili February 12, 2025
Open-source robotics is transforming the way intelligent machines are designed, developed and deployed. By leveraging Linux based...
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Filelight — my new favorite Linux tool Filelight-00-Featured
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Filelight — my new favorite Linux tool

David Both February 11, 2025
0 I like to explore all corners of my Linux installations. Sometimes I find interesting and useful...
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Top Five KDE Apps KDE-Plasma-01-Header
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Top Five KDE Apps

Don Watkins February 10, 2025
2 I’ve been using Fedora 41 KDE Plasma for awhile now and I’ve already discovered some of...
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Fixing Ansible playbooks button_push_open_keyboard_file_organize
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Fixing Ansible playbooks

David Both February 6, 2025
I’ve been using Ansible for several years to perform different tasks on my many physical and virtual...
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Draw a Cylon eye in DOS code_development_programming
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Draw a Cylon eye in DOS

Jim Hall February 5, 2025
Have fun by writing a program to simulate a Cylon's sweeping red eye
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How I reverted to Name Service Switch (NSS) for name resolution — And why api.openverse-03
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How I reverted to Name Service Switch (NSS) for name resolution — And why

David Both February 4, 2025
There are problems with the new systemd-resolved resolver and that gives us some good reasons to keep...
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Quoting text with ‘sed’

Jim Hall February 3, 2025
Another great use of sed to make quick edits to a text file.
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How I automate file edits with ‘sed’ Image of a keyboard
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How I automate file edits with ‘sed’

Jim Hall January 31, 2025
Here’s a neat command line trick to make changes to a text file.
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How ActivityPub is Reshaping Social Networking A spider web with dew on a purple background.
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How ActivityPub is Reshaping Social Networking

Don Watkins January 30, 2025
I have been a Mastodon user for nearly six years. I started on Fosstodon and have since moved to Mastodon....
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My Go-To Podcasts for Linux and Open Source programming-code-keyboard-laptop-music-headphones
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My Go-To Podcasts for Linux and Open Source

Don Watkins January 28, 2025
I spend much time on the road or walking around my village and enjoy listening to podcasts...
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New book announcement Woman reading a book in a Blue arm chair with steaming coffee by her side
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New book announcement

David Both January 27, 2025
I’m currently working on a new book that will be available in July 2025, “systemd for Linux...
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Using the dmesg command th-2358250818
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Using the dmesg command

David Both January 24, 2025
As a SysAdmin I frequently need to access the kernel log to obtain information of various types....
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How to get started in open source?

Don Watkins January 23, 2025
Linux, LibreOffice, GnuCash, and Audacity are all open-source projects, meaning the folks who write the code and/or...
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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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