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Fedora Prix Fixe Menu Gives Flexibility

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“Using and Administering Linux” Book Progress Update

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Use FreeDOS to learn about computers

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From ‘Obsolete’ to Opportunity: How Five Old PCs Found New Purpose

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Fedora 44 Coming Soon

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VirtualBox Problem Solved

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Let’s measure pi with a Raspberry Pi

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FreeDOS Fun Text Editors

Edit text with this Emacs-like editor

If you’re already familiar with GNU Emacs, you should feel right at home in Freemacs.

Jim Hall
December 27, 2025December 16, 2025
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Command Line History Linux Text Editors

7 ways I use ed every day

Here are 7 ways I like to use the ed editor for daily tasks.

Jim Hall
September 30, 2025September 21, 2025
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Both.org Text Editors

5 popular articles about editing text

Text editors just do plain text. Explore these top 5 articles about text editors that you can use to edit files.

Jim Hall
December 9, 2024November 26, 2024
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FreeDOS Text Editors

Editing files with FreeDOS Edlin

Edlin is a classic editor from the early DOS days, but it’s still a fun and useful editor.

Jim Hall
September 5, 2024September 4, 2024
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Linux Text Editors Tools Vim

How I configure Vim as my default editor on Linux

Vim is my favorite editor. These changes to my system make Vim available as the default in programs that use a different editor by default.

David Both
January 20, 2024March 16, 2026
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A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.

— Laws of computerdom according to Golub

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)“.

“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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