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Converting to BtrFS — Episode 2 BtrFS-Logo-01
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Converting to BtrFS — Episode 2

David Both November 20, 2025
I've started testing.
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Easily Create Windows Installation Media Using Linux Tool Header-data_stack_blue_disks
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Easily Create Windows Installation Media Using Linux Tool

Don Watkins November 19, 2025
1 Recently, I’ve been helping people with Windows machines. In one case, I needed to create bootable...
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Commands I use to explore Linux filesystems Wide picture of an open 5-inch hard drive showing the disks and the read / wriute heads.
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Commands I use to explore Linux filesystems

David Both November 18, 2025
As a SysAdmin, I need to manage the filesystems on the hosts in my home lab. There’s...
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Why VirtualBox is my goto Hypervisor

Don Watkins November 17, 2025
1 I first started using VirtualBox many years ago, and it quickly became my favorite virtualization platform....
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How to generate good passwords with pwgen

David Both November 13, 2025
1 Whenever I change passwords on my systems, I need to try to think up ones that...
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Converting to BtrFS — Episode 1 SSDs-Cropped
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Converting to BtrFS — Episode 1

David Both November 11, 2025
It's not going well.
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13 years is a long time for a laptop A Black femail working on a computer in an office.
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13 years is a long time for a laptop

Jim Hall November 10, 2025
I'll always have fond memories of my X1 Carbon. Goodbye, little laptop.
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Problems updating QT5 on Fedora 43 api.openverse-03
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Problems updating QT5 on Fedora 43

David Both November 7, 2025
3 I’ve been having problems trying to install updates on my systems with graphical interfaces. This is...
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Fedora 43 breaks my books Host-with-multiple-VMs-01-resized
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Fedora 43 breaks my books

David Both November 7, 2025
2 Well, it really only breaks the some of the experiments the 2nd Edition of my “Using...
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Electric nonsense

David Both November 6, 2025
I recently read a story on a local TV station’s website that just made we want to...
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Installing Fedora 43 Minimal on a Raspberry Pi Raspberries with pi symbol overlay
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Installing Fedora 43 Minimal on a Raspberry Pi

Jim Hall November 5, 2025
I prefer running my Pi in text mode. Here's how I did it with Fedora 43.
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Installing Fedora 43 Xfce linux_boot
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Installing Fedora 43 Xfce

Jim Hall November 4, 2025
Fedora Xfce is a sleek, modern desktop for Linux.
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Reviving an Old Laptop with Linux Mint OSDC_Penguin_Image_520x292_12324207_0714_mm_v1a
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Reviving an Old Laptop with Linux Mint

Don Watkins November 3, 2025
1 As I write this on October 28, I got a phone call from someone I had...
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Fedora 43 — A Second Look Header-data_stack_blue_disks
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Fedora 43 — A Second Look

David Both November 1, 2025
1 I’ve been using Fedora 43 for a little over 3 days, since Tuesday, and I’m quite...
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Linux Mint: Better Privacy, Cost, and Performance for Your Old Windows Computer

Don Watkins October 31, 2025
1 Last week, Windows 10 users faced a dilemma: transition to Windows 11 and potentially purchase a...
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Read and write data in C

Jim Hall October 30, 2025
If you're new to C programming, here are a few tips to improve reading and writing files.
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Why I’ve Never Used Windows

On February 12 I gave a presentation at the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) about why I use Linux and why I’ve never used Windows.

Here’s the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/live/uCK_haOXPFM 

David Both ATO Interview

Last October at All Things Open (ATO) I was interviewed by Jason Hibbits of We Love Open Source. It’s posted in the article “Why today’s AI isn’t intelligent (yet)“.

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