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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 23—Support your Favorite Open Source Project

Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 25 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with significant changes to update the...

David Both
July 3, 2025July 6, 2025
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Linux Linux Philosophy

The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 17— Use your favorite editor

Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 19 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with some changes to update the...

David Both
March 3, 2025July 6, 2025
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Linux Philosophy

Linux Philosophy articles of 2024

Having read a lot of books like, "Linux and the Unix Philosophy," by Mike Gancarz1, and "The Art of Unix Programming," by Eric S. Raymond2,...

David Both
December 19, 2024December 19, 2024
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Linux System Administration

Another reason I like Linux

I like and prefer Linux for may reasons. Today provides one example. I like to install updates on all my Linux systems ( I don't...

David Both
November 18, 2024
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Filesystems Linux Linux Filesystem Hierarchical Standard Linux Filesystem Hierarchical Structure The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins

The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 12 — Use separate filesystems for data

Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 14 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with changes. There is a lot...

David Both
October 22, 2024July 6, 2025
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What is the Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins?

The Unix Philosophy is an important part of what makes Unix unique and powerful. Much has been written about the Unix Philosophy and the Linux philosophy is essentially the same as the Unix philosophy because of its direct line of descent from Unix.

David Both
July 11, 2024July 6, 2025
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How the 9 major tenets of the Unix/Linux philosophy affect you

The Linux Philosophy is not just a historical curiosity — it’s more relevant today than ever.

David Both
January 29, 2024July 6, 2025
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The impact of the Linux philosophy

The philosophy of an operating system matters. The Linux philosophy matters to the operating system and to the community.

David Both
January 25, 2024January 28, 2024
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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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“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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