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Celebrating 20 Years of ODF: The Backbone of Open Standards

May 13, 2025May 5, 2025
2

How I use GNU Indent

May 12, 2025May 5, 2025
3

AI Malware strikes curl developers

May 10, 2025May 8, 2025
4

Emulating systems with QEMU

May 9, 2025May 9, 2025
5

Make typing faster with the Keebio BDN9 macro pad

May 8, 2025May 4, 2025
6

Code like it’s the 1980s

May 7, 2025May 4, 2025
7

Standard UNIX password manager

May 6, 2025
8

GIMP: the free Photoshop alternative

May 5, 2025May 1, 2025
9

The case of the Borked HDD

May 3, 2025May 3, 2025
Development Git

Learn Git: 3 commands to level up your skill

Learn how to use git squash, git rebase, and git cherry-pick.

mcdwayne
January 16, 2024January 9, 2024
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Git

Git concepts in less than 10 minutes

Understanding Git is essential to open source development, but it can be intimidating to learn. Let this tutorial be your first step to getting to know Git.

mcdwayne
January 15, 2024January 9, 2024
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Linux Tools

Monitoring Linux and Windows hosts with Glances

The Glances tool offers more information about system performance than other sysadmin monitoring tools.

David Both
January 14, 2024January 8, 2024
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Desktop Linux

Cinnamon: A Tale of Forks and Familiarity in the Linux Desktop Landscape

Cinnamon is a familiar interface to welcome newcomers transitioning from Windows or macOS.

Don Watkins
January 13, 2024January 8, 2024
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Curiosity Linux Problem Solving

SysAdmin careers: Curiosity is an asset

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it helps the sysadmin grow and thrive.

David Both
January 12, 2024February 20, 2024
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Linux

How YAML actually works

Learn how to create YAML correctly from the start.

Seth Kenlon
January 11, 2024January 7, 2024
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Filesystems Linux

A user’s guide to links in the Linux filesystem

Learn how to use links, which make tasks easier by providing access to files from multiple locations in the Linux filesystem directory tree.

David Both
January 10, 2024January 7, 2024
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systemd

How I used journalctl to Determine the Source of an Electrical Problem

The journalctl command can extract interesting data from the systemd journals. I never thought it could help with hardware electrical problems – until I tried it.

David Both
January 9, 2024January 4, 2024
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Open Source Tools

Teaching technical writing with open source

In addition to my work as a consultant, I also teach a few courses on technical writing. One of these is a course about writing...

Jim Hall
January 8, 2024December 28, 2023
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Fixing problems Linux

Liquid Cooling Failure

Modern motherboards make a cooling failure less catastrophic than it could have been.

David Both
January 7, 2024January 3, 2024
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Multimedia Open Source

Audio Preservation Challenges

Creation of DVDs from unusual file formats can be a challenge. Open source tools can be used in creative ways to make this possible.

Don Watkins
January 6, 2024January 6, 2024
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In Depth Linux systemd

Linux Boot and Startup

Understanding the boot and Linux startup processes is important to being able to both configure Linux and to resolving startup issues.

David Both
January 5, 2024January 10, 2024
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Filesystems Linux

Everything is a file

When everything is a file Difficult things are easy and impossible things are merely hard.

David Both
January 4, 2024January 3, 2024
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Linux Open Source Software

Creating a universal live Linux USB drive

Image by Don Watkins. CC-by-SA 4.0 Use them for troubleshooting problems and to demonstrate the beauty and utility of using Linux I frequently create USB...

Don Watkins
January 4, 2024January 2, 2024
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Linux

Working with data streams on the Linux command line

Learn to connect data streams from one utility to another using STDIO. Everything in Linux revolves around streams of data—particularly text streams. Data streams are...

David Both
January 3, 2024January 10, 2024
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Command Line Linux

Conquering the Command Line for Linux Beginners

12 Essential Linux Commands for Beginners

Don Watkins
January 2, 2024January 2, 2024
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May 13,2025

My latest book, “systemd for Linux  SysAdmins” is now available from my publisher, Apress, and on Amazon.

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