A Quick Review of Fedora 39
This review is based on my first month of using Fedora 39. I have performed no formal testing and have not tried very hard to...
How to be the lazy SysAdmin
Work smarter, not harder, and still do your job well. The job of a Linux SysAdmin is always complex and often fraught with various pitfalls...
When Does a Power Cord Fail?
When it's junk. I have a self-imposed limit of 12 working computers in my house. Said limit being strongly suggested by my sweetie. It's really...
My Oldest Computer Died
I had this old Dell Optiplex 755 computer that someone gifted me several years ago. "They" said it was no longer working and they were...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...