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How to generate good passwords with pwgen

November 13, 2025November 13, 2025
2

Converting to BtrFS

November 11, 2025November 11, 2025
3

13 years is a long time for a laptop

November 10, 2025November 8, 2025
4

Problems updating QT5 on Fedora 43

November 7, 2025November 7, 2025
5

Fedora 43 breaks my books

November 7, 2025
6

Electric nonsense

November 6, 2025November 5, 2025
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Installing Fedora 43 Minimal on a Raspberry Pi

November 5, 2025November 5, 2025
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Installing Fedora 43 Xfce

November 4, 2025November 3, 2025
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Reviving an Old Laptop with Linux Mint

November 3, 2025October 29, 2025
EOL Linux System Administration

Planning for End of Life

We hear a lot about end of life (EOL) planning for hardware and software. At this time, the end of Windows 10 springs to mind...

David Both
October 7, 2025October 7, 2025
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Command Line Linux

Unzipping archives from the command line

For many years, the de facto standard in file archives was Pkzip and Pkunzip, by Phil Katz. Phil created the Zip archive file format because...

Jim Hall
October 6, 2025October 1, 2025
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FreeDOS Programming

Write directly to the screen with DOS conio

Write text anywhere on the screen using conio.

Jim Hall
October 3, 2025September 26, 2025
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Linux Moving to Linux Top 5

Best Linux Distros for Windows Users: From Mint to Pop!_OS

When you are new to Linux, it can be challenging to navigate all the options available to users. Choosing a distribution can be difficult, especially...

Don Watkins
October 2, 2025September 27, 2025
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Linux Problem Solving

VirtualBox 7.2.2 fails to start VMs

After a recent upgrade to VirtualBox 7.2.2, all of my many VMs would crash within seconds as they tried to start. While this isn't exactly...

David Both
October 1, 2025September 30, 2025
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Command Line History Linux Text Editors

7 ways I use ed every day

Here are 7 ways I like to use the ed editor for daily tasks.

Jim Hall
September 30, 2025September 21, 2025
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Command Line FreeDOS

3 ways I use aliases in FreeDOS

Here are 3 ways that I use aliases on FreeDOS:

Jim Hall
September 29, 2025October 2, 2025
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Environment Linux Moving to Linux Windows

Save the Computers

Computers aren’t as cute as say, baby seals or kittens, but it’s just as important to save the computers.

David Both
September 26, 2025October 3, 2025
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Algol 68 Code Interview Programming

Interview with Marcel van der Veer

Creator of Algol 68 Genie Having written a number of articles about using the open source Algol 68 compiler and interpreter, Algol 68 Genie, I...

Chris Hermansen
September 25, 2025September 29, 2025
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End of 10... Event Installfest Linux News TriLUG

End of 10 event success

This past Saturday, September 20, the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) held an installfest. We had some good success despite the short time-frame we had...

David Both
September 22, 2025September 22, 2025
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Information News Open Source

SourceForge is ending free personal web hosting

SourceForge will end personal web hosting (unrelated to project web hosting) in October.

Jim Hall
September 18, 2025September 17, 2025
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Event Linux Moving to Linux News

Triangle Linux Users Group to hold installfest

Members of the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) are having a meetup to discuss and demonstrate Linux for you. Keep your old computers that can't...

David Both
September 17, 2025September 17, 2025
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Linux

Why do you love Linux?

We’ll collect your ideas in a future “round-up” article with comments from our community!

Jim Hall
September 16, 2025September 13, 2025
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Hardware Linux

Minty Fresh on a Meerkat: My Latest Linux Setup

A trip to Denver and the System76 factory in 2018 afforded me a chance to meet their technology team and look at the products they...

Don Watkins
September 15, 2025September 10, 2025
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Fun Programming

My start with BASIC programming

Here’s how I wrote my first BASIC programs on the Apple II.

Jim Hall
September 12, 2025September 8, 2025
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Linux Programming

Read long lines with getline

Getline offers a more flexible way to read user data into your program without breaking the system.

Jim Hall
September 11, 2025September 8, 2025
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“systemd for SysAdmins” Now Available

May 13,2025

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