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.
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.
Fedora 32 rocks – with a couple issues
Fedora 32 became available yesterday and - LinuxGeek46 that I am - I managed to upgrade 7 out of 8 of my Fedora hosts yesterday...
High Anxiety
Yesterday was a very challenging day for me. It involved winblowze 10 which is not a common thing for me to touch. Very uncommon, in...
Update on BookAuthority
After some additional research, it turns out that BookAuthority is merely an Amazon "partner." They advertise Amazon books and get a bit of money from...
Why I Hate Windoze
I was working with a VM this afternoon that has WInblowz 10 installed to do some testing for a book and took a few screen shots to include in that book. After I finished up with that, I was going to shut down the VM but then – the Blue Screen of Updates that lasted forever.
Real SysAdmins don’t sudo – Book excerpt
I was just reading a very interesting article that contained some good information about a Linux feature that I want to learn about.
The reason I found this article so cringe-worthy is that it prefaced every command with the sudo command. The issue I have with this is that the article is allegedly for SysAdmins and real SysAdmins don’t use sudo in front of every command they issue. This is a gross misuse of the sudo command and I have written about this type of misuse in my book, “The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins.”