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Why I prefer tar to zip

January 15, 2026January 14, 2026
2

Development isn’t over until it’s packaged

January 14, 2026
3

Tinkering with Immutable Linux: How Fedora Cosmic Atomic Won Me Over

January 13, 2026January 6, 2026
4

Using Wildcards on the Bash Command Line

January 12, 2026January 14, 2026
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2025 — a Great Year for Both.org

January 10, 2026January 11, 2026
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How Immutable Linux Could Save Libraries Thousands

January 9, 2026December 31, 2025
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The difference in open source licenses

January 8, 2026January 8, 2026
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Counting words from online articles

January 7, 2026December 29, 2025
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Buying a Linux laptop that will last

January 6, 2026January 6, 2026
AI Linux

Open WebUI: A Powerful, Open Source Interface for LLM

OpenWebUI offers a robust, feature-packed, and intuitive self-Hosted interface that operates seamlessly offline. It supports various large language models like Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, Open...

Don Watkins
October 29, 2024October 31, 2024
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Diversity Linux

A day at ATO’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conference (DEI)

Sunday, October 27, Yesterday as I write this, was an amazing day. The All Things Open DEI Conference featured some amazing speakers who offered some...

David Both
October 28, 2024
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 13 — Make programs portable

Image by Opensource.com: CC-by-SA 4.0 Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 15 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with...

David Both
October 28, 2024July 6, 2025
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Linux System Administration

What does it mean to be a SysAdmin?

A lot of us call ourselves SysAdmins (aka System Administrators1) and, sometimes, that's what our job title might be. You might not even realize that...

David Both
October 27, 2024October 22, 2024
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FreeDOS Linux Programming

Portable programming practices

Sometimes it’s easier to define your API to hide the platform-specific code

Jim Hall
October 26, 2024October 19, 2024
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FreeDOS Linux Programming

Writing portable C programs

Jim shares this follow-up to an earlier article about programming across platforms.

Jim Hall
October 25, 2024October 19, 2024
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Linux Open Source Writing

Welcome, “We (heart) Open Source”

We ❤️ Open Source is "A community education resource." A recent article at FOSS Force, "‘All Things Open’ Revives the OpenSource.com Community Abandoned by Red...

David Both
October 24, 2024October 23, 2024
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 12 — Use separate filesystems for data

Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 14 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with changes. There is a lot...

David Both
October 22, 2024July 6, 2025
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Linux System Administration

Fastfetch: system information tool

Recently, I wrote about Neofetch, which is a tool that I have used in the past on Linux systems I owned. It was an easy way to...

Don Watkins
October 21, 2024October 15, 2024
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Community Open Source

Celebrating technical writing with open source software

Celebrate the National Day on Writing by sharing your first article about open source software.

Jim Hall
October 20, 2024October 17, 2024
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Linux

Why I won’t use the BtrFS filesystem

Over the more than twenty-five years I have been using Linux, the default filesystem for Red Hat Linux (not RHEL) and Fedora has evolved considerably....

David Both
October 19, 2024October 30, 2025
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AI Linux

Simplifying AI Interaction: A Deep Dive into Hollama’s Minimalist Web Interface for Ollama

I’ve continued the large language model learning experience with my introduction to Hollama. Until now, my experience with locally hosted Ollama has been querying models...

Don Watkins
October 18, 2024October 14, 2024
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Linux System Administration

How to share your system configuration visually

Many individuals find it beneficial to disseminate their tailored Linux setup. This could be out of a desire for troubleshooting assistance, or because they wish...

Don Watkins
October 17, 2024October 13, 2024
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Fun Linux

Calculate letter frequency in gawk

Write a gawk script to determine the most (and least) common letters in a set of words.

Jim Hall
October 16, 2024October 13, 2024
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FreeDOS Linux Programming

Programming across platforms

Using these C compiler preprocessor directives to detect the operating system can make it easier to support multiple platforms at once.

Jim Hall
October 15, 2024October 13, 2024
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Linux Performance System Administration

What are load averages — and what do they mean?

Most system monitoring tools like top, htop, atop, glances, and others display individual processes and information about them. These tools also display three numbers called,...

David Both
October 14, 2024October 12, 2024
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David Both ATO Interview

Last October at All Things Open (ATO) I was interviewed by Jason Hibbits of We Love Open Source. It just posted this week in the article “Why today’s AI isn’t intelligent (yet)“.

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A computer is like air conditioning – it becomes useless when you open Windows

— Linus Torvalds

Links: Moving to Linux

  • 7 Reasons Fedora Might Be a Better Windows Replacement Than Linux Mint
  • 7 Reasons Why Windows Users Avoid Linux (Which Aren’t True Anymore)
  • Best Linux distros to try before Windows 10 support ends
  • How to switch your Windows 10 PC to Linux Mint – for free
  • I replaced my entire Microsoft Office subscription with free open-source apps
  • Isn’t It Time to Switch to Linux? 12 Reasons to Abandon Windows
  • KDE for W10 Exiles
  • Linux: A true story
  • Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux
  • Why I Switched to Linux From Windows

“systemd for SysAdmins” Now Available

May 13,2025

My latest book — a #1 New Release on Amazon — “systemd for Linux  SysAdmins” is now available from my publisher, Apress, and on Amazon.

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