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An interview with Jim Hall about FreeDOS

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Celebrating 20 Years of ODF: The Backbone of Open Standards

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How I use GNU Indent

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AI Malware strikes curl developers

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Emulating systems with QEMU

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Code like it’s the 1980s

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Standard UNIX password manager

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GIMP: the free Photoshop alternative

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Bash Documentation Text Editors Tips and tricks Tools

Create a patch from differences in a file with the diff and patch commands

When you collaborate on a digital project with someone, it's a guarantee that eventually someone's going to need to send you changes they've made to...

Seth Kenlon
March 24, 2025March 24, 2025
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Getting Started Open Source

How to get started in open source?

Linux, LibreOffice, GnuCash, and Audacity are all open-source projects, meaning the folks who write the code and/or the documentation are usually not paid for it....

Don Watkins
January 23, 2025January 22, 2025
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Community History Open Source

What I’ve learned about open source community over 30 years

Open source projects are about more than just the code. It’s about the people that contribute to it.

Jim Hall
December 8, 2024September 13, 2024
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FreeDOS Open Source

Celebrating 30 years of open source with FreeDOS

Explore retrocomputing with this open source operating system that recently turned 30 years old.

Jim Hall
December 3, 2024November 30, 2024
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Open Source

How to write your first article with Both.org

Join the community by writing an article for Both.org.

Jim Hall
November 1, 2024August 11, 2024
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Bash Linux Open System Administration

The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 11 — Store data in open formats

Image by Opensource.com: CC-by-SA 4.0 Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 13 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with...

David Both
October 13, 2024October 11, 2024
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Open Source

4 ways to write your first article

Write an article about your open source experience.

Jim Hall
October 1, 2024August 11, 2024
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Both.org Getting Started Open Source

Join the community and share an article

Our community wants to read about your experience and how you use your favorite open source application.

Jim Hall
September 1, 2024August 11, 2024
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Desktop LibreOffice Linux

Balancing Performance, Compliance, and Cost with Linux and Open-Source Solutions

My recent task involved assisting a healthcare professional in upgrading their computer system. The goal was to provide a more robust solution that offers redundant...

Don Watkins
August 22, 2024August 15, 2024
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Open Source 101

Screencasts for usability testing

With screencasts, you can extend your usability testing.

Jim Hall
June 26, 2024June 15, 2024
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Open Source 101

Usability testing in open source software

Through usability testing, we can make open source software projects easier for everyone to use.

Jim Hall
June 24, 2024June 15, 2024
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Leadership Open Source 101

Open source in organizations

Open source is a power multiplier for today’s IT organizations.

Jim Hall
June 21, 2024June 15, 2024
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Linux My Story Open Source

David Both: My Open Source Story

Here I am, almost 30 years into my personal crazy open source story, and it shows no sign of abating. And my problem is that I like to know how things work and to fix things. I started fixing TVs, ours and the neighbors’, when I was nine or ten. Read on to discover how that led me into the open source world.

David Both
June 9, 2024June 6, 2024
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FreeDOS History Open Source

MS-DOS 4.00 released as open source software

Why it’s important that Microsoft released this old version of MS-DOS.

Jim Hall
May 1, 2024April 26, 2024
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3 things that matter most for a project management tool

Our daily professional lives involve recognizing, prioritizing, and completing tasks. These tasks comprise the larger projects and initiatives that drive company and business success. When you think about it this way, the project management tool and system you choose at work, for yourself or your team, is critical.

Jen Wike Huger
April 29, 2024April 29, 2024
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5 lessons we can learn from AI

There are plenty of very real lessons we can learn from artificial intelligence.

Seth Kenlon
April 19, 2024April 14, 2024
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May 13,2025

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