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Why do you love Linux?

Jim Hall September 16, 2025
We'll collect your ideas in a future "round-up" article with comments from our community!
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Minty Fresh on a Meerkat: My Latest Linux Setup

Don Watkins September 15, 2025
A trip to Denver and the System76 factory in 2018 afforded me a chance to meet their...
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My start with BASIC programming

Jim Hall September 12, 2025
Here's how I wrote my first BASIC programs on the Apple II.
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Read long lines with getline

Jim Hall September 11, 2025
Getline offers a more flexible way to read user data into your program without breaking the system.
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Rhythmbox is a great music player for GNOME

Jim Hall September 10, 2025
I like Rhythmbox as my music player on Linux because it's simple and stays out of my...
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Reading the command line with getopt

Jim Hall September 9, 2025
You can make your program much more flexible if it can respond to the user every time...
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How do I choose a Linux distribution?

David Both September 5, 2025
1 I see a lot of potential Windows refugees asking this question on the two social media...
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Using QGIS and MerginMaps for Geospatial Data Work

Don Watkins September 4, 2025
Recently, a friend asked me if I could help him map his walk around the area where...
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Exploring GNU Algol 68: Formatting numbers as strings for output

Chris Hermansen September 3, 2025
As I mentioned in my introductory article to this mini-series, GNU Algol 68 is in development, and...
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What you need to know when you buy a new computer

David Both September 2, 2025
Author’s Note: This article is based on parts of Chapter 4, “Using Linux – Choosing Hardware,” of...
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Why beauty matters in computing

David Both September 1, 2025
Why we should care about beauty as it applies to computing? And how do we define beauty...
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My oldest computer turns 20 today

David Both August 30, 2025
My oldest computer turns 20 today, August 30, 2025. I use this date because, according to the...
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Building a random text generator

Jim Hall August 29, 2025
Generate your own random placeholder text by writing a few lines in Bash.
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Exploring GNU Algol 68

Chris Hermansen August 28, 2025
Since early 2019, I’ve spent some time here and there refreshing my appreciation for the Algol 68...
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Why I switched to Linux

Seth Kenlon August 27, 2025
1 When I first encountered Linux as an operating system, it wasn’t exactly love at first sight....
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10 reasons to use Linux

David Both August 26, 2025
Southern humorist, newspaper editor and columnist, comedian, and author, Lewis Grizzard once said that there are two...
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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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