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ATO book signing schedule announced ATO-2023-Book-Signing-Line-02
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ATO book signing schedule announced

David Both October 10, 2025
1 The ATO organizers have announced the book signing schedule for All Things Open 2025. I’ll be...
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Print ‘Hello world’ in color with conio

Jim Hall October 10, 2025
Learn how to write your first C program on FreeDOS with this example.
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Email can’t access the INBOX

David Both October 9, 2025
If you’ve been reading my posts here, or my books, you know that I like to experiment...
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Choose your new computer’s operating system

Alan Formy-Duval October 8, 2025
2 I recently built a new computer, and now it needs a fresh operating system. But before...
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Planning for End of Life

David Both October 7, 2025
1 We hear a lot about end of life (EOL) planning for hardware and software. At this...
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Unzipping archives from the command line

Jim Hall October 6, 2025
For many years, the de facto standard in file archives was Pkzip and Pkunzip, by Phil Katz....
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Write directly to the screen with DOS conio

Jim Hall October 3, 2025
Write text anywhere on the screen using conio.
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Best Linux Distros for Windows Users: From Mint to Pop!_OS

Don Watkins October 2, 2025
1 When you are new to Linux, it can be challenging to navigate all the options available...
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VirtualBox 7.2.2 fails to start VMs

David Both October 1, 2025
After a recent upgrade to VirtualBox 7.2.2, all of my many VMs would crash within seconds as...
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7 ways I use ed every day

Jim Hall September 30, 2025
Here are 7 ways I like to use the ed editor for daily tasks.
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3 ways I use aliases in FreeDOS computer_browser_web_desktop
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3 ways I use aliases in FreeDOS

Jim Hall September 29, 2025
Here are 3 ways that I use aliases on FreeDOS:
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Save the Computers

David Both September 26, 2025
Computers aren't as cute as say, baby seals or kittens, but it's just as important to save...
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Interview with Marcel van der Veer

Chris Hermansen September 25, 2025
4 Creator of Algol 68 Genie Having written a number of articles about using the open source...
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End of 10 event success

David Both September 22, 2025
This past Saturday, September 20, the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) held an installfest. We had some...
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SourceForge is ending free personal web hosting

Jim Hall September 18, 2025
SourceForge will end personal web hosting (unrelated to project web hosting) in October.
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Triangle Linux Users Group to hold installfest My Desktop
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Triangle Linux Users Group to hold installfest

David Both September 17, 2025
1 Members of the Triangle Linux Users Group (TriLUG) are having a meetup to discuss and demonstrate...
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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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