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Problems updating QT5 on Fedora 43

November 7, 2025November 7, 2025
2

Fedora 43 breaks my books

November 7, 2025
3

Electric nonsense

November 6, 2025November 5, 2025
4

Installing Fedora 43 Minimal on a Raspberry Pi

November 5, 2025November 5, 2025
5

Installing Fedora 43 Xfce

November 4, 2025November 3, 2025
6

Reviving an Old Laptop with Linux Mint

November 3, 2025October 29, 2025
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Fedora 43 — A Second Look

November 1, 2025October 31, 2025
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Linux Mint: Better Privacy, Cost, and Performance for Your Old Windows Computer

October 31, 2025October 28, 2025
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Read and write data in C

October 30, 2025September 26, 2025
Thoughts

Book thoughts

As I started working on my book this morning, I looked at the total word count for the chapters I have already completed and the...

David Both
February 13, 2018February 14, 2018
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Book

Book status

I continue to make good progress on my book, The Linux Philosophy for System Administrators. I have now completed 15 chapters and technical reviews have...

David Both
February 12, 2018
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Announcement Book Linux

Book Deal Signed

I recently signed a contract for a book deal with Apress publishing. My book is tentatively titled, "The Linux Philosophy for System Administrators." My intention...

David Both
December 9, 2017
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News

Welcome to my renovated blog

I have just renovated my personal blog - yes, this one - because I have some interesting news coming up soon. I will share it...

David Both
December 1, 2017
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If a test installation functions perfectly, all subsequent systems will malfunction.

— Troutman’s Programming Postulates

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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.

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