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1

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
8

Breaking Free from Windows 10: KDE Plasma Is Your Upgrade to Freedom

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025
9

I need a list of URLs

June 16, 2025June 10, 2025
Linux

Bash Prompt Changed in Fedora 39

The Fedora development mailing lists have been talking about a new prompt for the Bash shell for some time. The idea was to add some...

David Both
November 24, 2023November 24, 2023
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Linux Problem Solving

Strange Windows Failure Explained

Back in August I wrote a post about helping a friend who had a problem with her laptop. I had determined that a strange but...

David Both
November 22, 2023December 9, 2023
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Fedora Linux Upgrades

Fedora 39 Released

Fedora 39 was released on November 7, 2023, 20 years and 1 day after Fedora Core 1. A lot has changed in that time. More...

David Both
November 15, 2023November 15, 2023
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All Things Open Book Signing

ATO Pictures

The pictures from ATO 2023 have been posted and there are some good ones of me. These were all taken by the official ATO photographer....

David Both
November 9, 2023November 10, 2023
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Linux Using and Administering Linux

2nd Edition of Book Series Makes Two Amazon Best Seller Lists

All three volumes in the 2nd Edition of my Using and Administering Linux – Zero to SysAdmin series Linux self-study course have made the Amazon...

David Both
November 6, 2023November 6, 2023
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All Things Open Linux

ATO Book Signing and Video

James Robinson-Prior, my Senior Editor at Apress traveled all the way from London, UK, for my book signing at ATO. He took some pictures and...

David Both
November 1, 2023November 1, 2023
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All Things Open Linux

My ATO Talk Download and Resource List

Bash Code You can download the Bash program and other files I used for my talk at ATO 2023 here. This is a tgz file...

David Both
October 18, 2023October 19, 2023
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Linux

Red Hat to Name New Leader for Fedora Project

After getting rid of many employees in April of 2023, Red Hat now seems to be attempting to back-fill some of the more critical positions...

David Both
October 15, 2023January 1, 2024
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Climate and Environment

E-Waste – Where does it go?

Image by Dan Speicher/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review/AP from CNN If you've read some of my posts on this site or Opensource.com, or some of my books, you...

David Both
October 9, 2023May 21, 2025
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All Things Open Book Talk

All Things Open (ATO) 2023

I will be attending All Things Open again this year and have the schedules for my talk and book signing. ATO is an amazing conference...

David Both
October 2, 2023October 2, 2023
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Announcement Book Linux Using and Administering Linux: Zero to SysAdmin

Using and Administering Linux: Volume 1 – Zero to SysAdmin: Getting Started is Now Available

Volume 1 of this series is now available in electronic and softcopy versions. At Apress and Amazon. I have been working on the 2nd Edition...

David Both
September 27, 2023September 27, 2023
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Book Linux Using and Administering Linux

Book Proofs Completed

I have completed reviewing the proofs for the 2nd Edition of my Using and Administering Linux: Zero to SysAdmin self-study training series. This is the...

David Both
September 25, 2023
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Information

Updates to Tech Website

You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t done much on my technical web site in the last few years, http://www.linux-databook.infot. As a result much of the...

David Both
August 29, 2023August 29, 2023
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Hardware

Liquid Cooling Experiments

I currently have four computers that use liquid cooling. I use all-in-one (AIO) systems because I don't really want to deal with the high probability...

David Both
August 23, 2023February 9, 2024
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Fixing problems Hardware Linux

Why I Save Old Computer Parts

As a long-time system administrator I have become known to friends and others as someone who can repair or repurpose their old computers. Or they...

David Both
August 22, 2023March 30, 2024
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Book Using and Administering Linux

Volume 1 Finalized

2nd Edition of Using and Administering Linux: Zero to SysAdmin nearing completion I have just submitted the final proofs of my book, Using and Administering...

David Both
August 4, 2023September 4, 2023
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“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.

2nd Edition now Available

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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