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Fedora 44 Coming Soon

March 18, 2026
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VirtualBox Problem Solved

March 16, 2026March 17, 2026
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Is there a better Pi Day than March 14?

March 14, 2026March 14, 2026
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Let’s measure pi with a Raspberry Pi

March 13, 2026October 17, 2025
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Why I Really Like Linux

March 12, 2026March 13, 2026
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California’s age verification law is bad for open source

March 10, 2026March 9, 2026
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Announcing the 3rd Edition of “Using and Administering Linux”

March 7, 2026March 7, 2026
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Fresh KDE Innovation Meets Ubuntu Stability

March 5, 2026March 4, 2026
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Make your first contribution to open source

March 2, 2026February 28, 2026
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David Both is an Open Source Software and GNU/Linux advocate, trainer, writer, and speaker who lives in Raleigh North Carolina. He is a strong proponent of and evangelist for the "Linux Philosophy." He’s been in the IT industry for over 50 years. He taught RHCE classes for Red Hat and has worked at MCI Worldcom, Cisco, and the State of North Carolina. He has been working with Linux and Open Source Software for over 25 years. David likes to build his own computers to ensure that each new computer meets his exacting specifications. He has written articles for magazines including, Linux Magazine, Linux Journal, and Opensource.com. He currently has five books published with Apress, "The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins", a self-study training course in three volumes “Using and Administering Linux: Zero to SysAdmin,” that was released in late 2019, and “Linux for Small Business Owners” with Co-author Cyndi Bulka.
BtrFS Filesystems Linux

Converting to BtrFS — Episode 3

It worked — sort of.

David Both
November 25, 2025January 20, 2026
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AI Slop Linux Opinion Windows

AI slop broke Windows

30% of the code in Windows has been written by AI. At the same time, pretty much all Windows core features are broken.

David Both
November 24, 2025November 24, 2025
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Linux 101 Moving to Linux Updates

Flexible updates with Linux

Flexibility is an important consideration when performing updates to your operating system. Linux gets it right.

David Both
November 21, 2025February 3, 2026
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BtrFS Filesystems Linux

Converting to BtrFS — Episode 2

I’ve started testing.

David Both
November 20, 2025January 20, 2026
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Command Line EXT4 Filesystems Linux

Commands I use to explore Linux filesystems

As a SysAdmin, I need to manage the filesystems on the hosts in my home lab. There's usually little to do, but when there is...

David Both
November 18, 2025January 2, 2026
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Command Line Linux Security

How to generate good passwords with pwgen

Whenever I change passwords on my systems, I need to try to think up ones that will be hard to crack as well as easy...

David Both
November 13, 2025November 13, 2025
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BtrFS EXT4 Filesystems Linux

Converting to BtrFS — Episode 1

It’s not going well.

David Both
November 11, 2025January 20, 2026
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Fedora Linux Problem Solving

Problems updating QT5 on Fedora 43

I've been having problems trying to install updates on my systems with graphical interfaces. This is due to a conflict with the qt5-qtwebengine-freeworld package. QT5...

David Both
November 7, 2025November 7, 2025
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Books Linux Moving to Linux Using and Administering Linux

Fedora 43 breaks my books

Well, it really only breaks the some of the experiments the 2nd Edition of my "Using and Administering Linux" series. This includes all three volumes...

David Both
November 7, 2025
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Climate Environment Opinion

Electric nonsense

I recently read a story on a local TV station's website that just made we want to cringe. The story was about "Phantom energy drain."...

David Both
November 6, 2025November 5, 2025
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BtrFS Fedora Filesystems Linux

Fedora 43 — A Second Look

I've been using Fedora 43 for a little over 3 days, since Tuesday, and I'm quite happy with it on all my systems. However, I've...

David Both
November 1, 2025October 31, 2025
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Fedora Linux Upgrades

First Look at Fedora 43

Fedora 43 dropped yesterday, October 28, right on schedule. It's nice to know that I can count on version upgrades every 6 months in April...

David Both
October 29, 2025
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Fedora Linux News

Fedora 43 Released

Fedora 43 has just been released. The best place to find the link to download Fedora 43 is on the Fedora Project home page. I...

David Both
October 28, 2025October 28, 2025
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Fedora Linux Upgrades

Fedora 43 set for release October 28, 2025

Based on the current schedule for Fedora development, Fedora 43 should be released tomorrow, October 28. Although a delay is possible, that happens rarely and...

David Both
October 27, 2025
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Both.org Linux Opinion Self-Hosting

AWS Agony

Did you notice that Both.org was up and running fine yesterday morning -- despite the global side-effects of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that...

David Both
October 21, 2025October 20, 2025
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Linux 101 Tools Writing

How I write with Linux — My complete toolchain

Exploring the toolchain I use to write my books and articles.

David Both
October 20, 2025February 3, 2026
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Unix was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things.

— Doug Gwyn

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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