Skip to content

Both.org

News, Opinion, Tutorials, and Community for Linux Users and SysAdmins

Primary Menu
  • About Us
  • Computers 101
    • Hardware 101
    • Operating Systems 101
  • End of 10 Events
    • Wake Forest, NC, — 2025-09-20
  • Linux
    • Why I use Linux
    • The real reason we use Linux
  • My Linux Books
    • systemd for Linux SysAdmins
    • Using and Administering Linux – Zero to SysAdmin: 2nd Edition
    • The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins
    • Linux for Small Business Owners
    • Errata
      • Errata for The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins
      • Errata for Using and Administering Linux — 1st Edition
      • Errata for Using and Administering Linux — 2nd Edition
  • Open Source Resources
    • What is Open Source?
    • What is Linux?
    • What is Open Source Software?
    • The Open Source Way
  • Write for us
    • Submission and Style guide
    • Advertising statement
  • Downloads
A short review of Fedora 41 f41-01-day-Cropped
  • Fedora
  • Linux
  • Review

A short review of Fedora 41

David Both November 4, 2024
2 Fedora 41 was released on October 29, and I installed it on my primary workstation within...
Read More Read more about A short review of Fedora 41
Essential steps for creating a USB boot drive for Linux Four USB Thumb Drives
  • Linux
  • System Administration

Essential steps for creating a USB boot drive for Linux

Don Watkins November 3, 2024
1 I usually keep a bootable Linux USB drive with me because I never know when I...
Read More Read more about Essential steps for creating a USB boot drive for Linux
From web to client: The Mastodon experience Person drinking a hot drink at the computer
  • Linux
  • Social Media

From web to client: The Mastodon experience

Don Watkins November 2, 2024
Mastodon is an open-source social networking platform for microblogging. While it has a web-based interface, many users prefer...
Read More Read more about From web to client: The Mastodon experience
How to write your first article with Both.org Blue background with shooting stars "Tope Five"
  • Open Source

How to write your first article with Both.org

Jim Hall November 1, 2024
Join the community by writing an article for Both.org.
Read More Read more about How to write your first article with Both.org
Print a spooky greeting in ASCII art the words Happy Halloween written in ASCII art
  • FreeDOS
  • Fun
  • Programming

Print a spooky greeting in ASCII art

Jim Hall October 31, 2024
Generate colorful ASCII art from a C program using FreeDOS.
Read More Read more about Print a spooky greeting in ASCII art
How I reverted from firewalld to iptables — and why connections_wires_sysadmin_cable
  • Firewall
  • Linux
  • System Administration

How I reverted from firewalld to iptables — and why

David Both October 30, 2024
First, let’s get something straight. Linux has only one firewall. One. Netfilter is a part of the...
Read More Read more about How I reverted from firewalld to iptables — and why
Open WebUI: A Powerful, Open Source Interface for LLM Illustration: laptop with a picture on side and plant on the other
  • AI
  • Linux

Open WebUI: A Powerful, Open Source Interface for LLM

Don Watkins October 29, 2024
OpenWebUI offers a robust, feature-packed, and intuitive self-Hosted interface that operates seamlessly offline. It supports various large...
Read More Read more about Open WebUI: A Powerful, Open Source Interface for LLM
A day at ATO’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conference (DEI) Year2019-cropped
  • Diversity
  • Linux

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

David Both October 28, 2024
Sunday, October 27, Yesterday as I write this, was an amazing day. The All Things Open DEI...
Read More Read more about A day at ATO’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conference (DEI)
The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 13 — Make programs portable code_development_programming
  • Bash
  • Code
  • Compatibility
  • CygWin
  • Linux
  • Portability
  • PowerShell

The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 13 — Make programs portable

David Both October 28, 2024
Image by Opensource.com: CC-by-SA 4.0 Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 15 of...
Read More Read more about The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 13 — Make programs portable
What does it mean to be a SysAdmin? look-at
  • Linux
  • System Administration

What does it mean to be a SysAdmin?

David Both October 27, 2024
A lot of us call ourselves SysAdmins (aka System Administrators) and, sometimes, that’s what our job title...
Read More Read more about What does it mean to be a SysAdmin?
Portable programming practices programming_keyboard_coding
  • FreeDOS
  • Linux
  • Programming

Portable programming practices

Jim Hall October 26, 2024
Sometimes it's easier to define your API to hide the platform-specific code
Read More Read more about Portable programming practices
Writing portable C programs programming-code-keyboard-laptop-music-headphones
  • FreeDOS
  • Linux
  • Programming

Writing portable C programs

Jim Hall October 25, 2024
Jim shares this follow-up to an earlier article about programming across platforms.
Read More Read more about Writing portable C programs
Welcome, “We (heart) Open Source” Valentine-Heart
  • Linux
  • Open Source
  • Writing

Welcome, “We (heart) Open Source”

David Both October 24, 2024
We ❤️ Open Source is “A community education resource.” A recent article at FOSS Force, “‘All Things...
Read More Read more about Welcome, “We (heart) Open Source”
The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 12 — Use separate filesystems for data Header-data_stack_blue_disks
  • Filesystems
  • Linux
  • Linux Filesystem Hierarchical Standard
  • Linux Filesystem Hierarchical Structure
  • The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins

The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 12 — Use separate filesystems for data

David Both October 22, 2024
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 14 of my book, The Linux Philosophy...
Read More Read more about The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 12 — Use separate filesystems for data
Fastfetch: system information tool fastfetch1
  • Linux
  • System Administration

Fastfetch: system information tool

Don Watkins October 21, 2024
1 Recently, I wrote about Neofetch, which is a tool that I have used in the past on Linux...
Read More Read more about Fastfetch: system information tool
Celebrating technical writing with open source software button_push_open_keyboard_file_organize
  • Community
  • Open Source

Celebrating technical writing with open source software

Jim Hall October 20, 2024
Celebrate the National Day on Writing by sharing your first article about open source software.
Read More Read more about Celebrating technical writing with open source software

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 … 52 Next

Random Quote

Unix never says ‘please’.

— Rob Pike

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)“.

Technically We Write — Our Partner Site

Our partner site, Technically We Write, has published a number of articles from several contributors to Both.org. Check them out.

Technically We Write is a community of technical writers, technical editors, copyeditors, web content writers, and all other roles in technical communication.

Subscribe to Both.org

To comment on articles, you must have an account.

Send your desired user ID, first and last name, and an email address for login (this must be the same email address used to register) to subscribe@both.org with “Subscribe” as the subject line.

You’ll receive a confirmation of your subscription with your initial password as soon as we are able to process it.

Administration

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

License and AI Statements

Both.org aims to publish everything under a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license. Some items may be published under a different license. You are responsible to verify permissions before reusing content from this website.

The opinions expressed are those of the individual authors, not Both.org.

You may not use this content to train AI.

 

Advertising Statement

Both.org does not sell advertising on this website.


Advertising may keep most websites running—but at Both.org, we’re committed to keeping our corner of the web ad-free. Both.org does not sell advertising on the website. Nor do we offer sponsored articles at this time. We’ll update this page if our position on sponsorships changes.

We want to be open about how the website is funded. Both.org is supported entirely by David Both and a few other dedicated individuals.

 

 

Copyright © All rights reserved. | MoreNews by AF themes.