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Thinking about Algol 68

June 27, 2025June 26, 2025
2

The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 22—Mentor the young SysAdmins

June 25, 2025June 27, 2025
3

Do I have enough space for that?

June 24, 2025June 20, 2025
4

A beginner’s guide to dc

June 23, 2025June 20, 2025
5

Strange problems with switches

June 19, 2025June 21, 2025
6

Nextcloud is a snap

June 18, 2025June 17, 2025
7

Website problems circumvented

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025
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Breaking Free from Windows 10: KDE Plasma Is Your Upgrade to Freedom

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025
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I need a list of URLs

June 16, 2025June 10, 2025
Linux Open Source Software

How to configure an Apache web server

Learn to host your own website with Apache, a solid, well-known, and easy-to-configure web server.

David Both
March 18, 2024March 11, 2024
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Linux Networking System Administration

How I configured a DHCP server for my personal lab network

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) provides network configuration data to client hosts on a network, allowing for centralized network configuration management.

David Both
March 17, 2024March 9, 2024
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AI Linux Open Source

Mozilla Unveils Llamafile: A Game-Changer for Large Language Models in AI

Mozilla, a pioneer in open-source software, has once again made a significant contribution to artificial intelligence by introducing the Llamafile. This innovative technology is designed to simplify the deployment and utilization of large language models (LLMs), marking a significant leap forward in AI.

Don Watkins
March 16, 2024March 6, 2024
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Bash Command Line Tips and tricks

Using ‘if’ in a Bash script

Writing a short Bash script can save typing lots of instructions at the command line.

Jim Hall
March 15, 2024March 15, 2024
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Linux Raspberry Pi 1

How I run my blog on a Raspberry Pi

How I set up a Raspberry Pi to act as a web server to host my personal blog on Drupal.

mandclu
March 14, 2024January 18, 2024
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Linux Problem Solving

System statistics with sar and the /proc filesystem

SAR, the System Activity Reporter, is my starting place for accessing historical performance data to solve problems.

David Both
March 13, 2024March 6, 2024
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Bash Code Linux System Administration

Parsing config files with Bash

Separating config files from code enables anyone to change their configurations without any special programming skills.

David Both
March 12, 2024March 2, 2024
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Fedora Linux Security System Administration VirtualBox

Convert your Windows install into a VM on Linux

Here’s how I configured a VirtualBox VM to use a physical Windows drive on my Linux workstation.

David Both
March 11, 2024February 9, 2025
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System Administration

Team of one? The Zen postmortem

The practice of yoga offers sysadmins valuable lessons in self-examination.

David Both
March 10, 2024March 8, 2024
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Desktop Linux System Administration Xfce

Configure a Linux workspace remotely from the command line

Nearly everything can be done from the Linux command line, including remote configuration of desktops such as Xfce4.

David Both
March 9, 2024March 3, 2024
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Linux Open Source Software System Administration

Manage your APC battery backup system with this Linux command

Protect yourself from power incidents by running a simple utility: apcupsd.

David Both
March 8, 2024March 2, 2024
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Ansible Linux System Administration

Ansible #1: My first day using Ansible

A sysadmin shares information and advice about putting Ansible into real-world use configuring computers on their network.

David Both
March 7, 2024April 28, 2024
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Community Curiosity

How to write your first article

Open source is for everyone! And at Both.org, we encourage everyone to share their open source journey.

Jim Hall
March 6, 2024March 6, 2024
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Digital Images Linux Privacy

Protecting Your Privacy: Removing Exif Metadata from Your Digital Images with ExifCleaner

Each picture you take with a digital camera contains numerous tags that provide a great deal of information, some of which might ordinarily be considered confidential.

Don Watkins
March 5, 2024March 5, 2024
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Linux System Administration

What is a sysadmin?

What does the term “sysadmin” or “system administrator” mean to you? What does a sysadmin do? How do you know you are one?

Existential questions like this seldom have concrete answers, and the answers that do present themselves can be pretty fluid. The answers are also significantly different for different people and depend upon their work experience.

David Both
March 4, 2024February 28, 2024
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Linux System Administration systemd

systemd — #13: Why I support the systemd plan to take over the world

There is no nefarious plan, just one to bring System Management into the 21st century.

David Both
March 3, 2024March 1, 2024
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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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All three volumes of this best-selling second edition of my Linux Self-Study course are now available from Apress and Amazon. See the details of this 3-volume self-study course.

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