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Book Update

April 4, 2026
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Fedora Prix Fixe Menu Gives Flexibility

April 2, 2026March 28, 2026
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Why Linux Matters More Than Ever in 2026

March 31, 2026March 27, 2026
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“Using and Administering Linux” Book Progress Update

March 29, 2026March 29, 2026
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Use FreeDOS to learn about computers

March 26, 2026
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From ‘Obsolete’ to Opportunity: How Five Old PCs Found New Purpose

March 20, 2026March 19, 2026
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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
FAIL! Fedora Linux Security Updates

Beware Fedora updates of April 28, 2025

It breaks iptables with no warning I'm rather angry right now but I promise to remain calm -- at least in this post. I just...

David Both
April 28, 2025May 9, 2025
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KDE Plasma Linux 101

Learning to use System Settings in Fedora KDE Plasma

I have been using Fedora with the KDE Plasma desktop environment for almost three months, and overall, it’s been a wonderful experience. However, I’ve encountered...

Don Watkins
April 28, 2025February 4, 2026
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Programming

Draw in color using Portable Pix Maps

Create colorful images using the Portable Pix Map format.

Jim Hall
April 25, 2025April 19, 2025
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Linux

The duf command

The duf command is an advanced form of the df command that uses boxes to separate the storage device types into local, fuse (User space file storage), and special devices.

David Both
April 24, 2025April 24, 2025
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Programming

Grayscale images with Portable Gray Maps

Learn to write grayscale images using the Portable Gray Map format.

Jim Hall
April 23, 2025April 19, 2025
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Cinnamon Desktop Linux 101

Five things I like about the Cinnamon desktop

I’m not a distro-hopper; I’m a desktop-hopper. But I try many different desktops just to see what they’re like. Cinnamon boasts features usually found only in desktops with much greater resource consumption, like GNOME or KDE Plasma 6.X.

David Both
April 22, 2025February 4, 2026
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Programming

Write tiny images using PBM

The Portable Bit Map (“PBM”) image file format was invented in the 1980s as a way to transmit small black and white images as plain...

Jim Hall
April 21, 2025April 19, 2025
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Linux Upgrades

My first impressions of Fedora 42

You might be aware that I upgraded all of the Both.org systems over the last two days, moving from F41 to F42. That process was...

David Both
April 18, 2025April 18, 2025
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Linux Outage Upgrades

Fedora 42 upgrades at Both.org

Fedora 42 was released today, and I've been upgrading my systems. So far I've only done my internal systems and not the Both.org server or...

David Both
April 15, 2025April 15, 2025
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Linux

Fedora 42 has been released

It's now 21 years since Fedora Core 1 was originally released in November of 2003, and it's still maintaining its planned 6-month release cycle. Today,...

David Both
April 15, 2025April 15, 2025
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Linux Opinion Windows

Five reasons for Windows users to move to Linux

Take back your power As the October deadline for dumping Windows 10 is fast approaching, many users are considering their options. This is for many...

David Both
April 14, 2025April 13, 2025
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Books Linux News

Linux News

There are two items of interesting Linux news today. Fedora 42 The first is that Fedora 42 will be officially released on Tuesday, April 15,...

David Both
April 10, 2025February 3, 2026
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FreeDOS

Get started with FreeDOS 1.4

A lot has happened in DOS since FreeDOS 1.3. Here’s what to expect in FreeDOS 1.4, available now.

Jim Hall
April 9, 2025April 7, 2025
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Linux News Opinion Windows

Breaking News – M$ Allows older computers to install Windows 11

Microsoft has finally bowed to the inevitable and changed their draconian stance on older computers. They'll now allow older computers to install Windows 11 despite...

David Both
April 8, 2025April 9, 2025
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Freedom Open Source Opinion

Why does M$ require so much personal information?

Microsoft is really getting insistent about requiring an account before you can install new versions of Windows. They're even blocking known circumventions in order to...

David Both
April 8, 2025February 4, 2026
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Linux

Using Linux on Apple Silicon

I bought an M3 MacBook Air last fall to experiment with AI tools and LLMs that were available for use on Apple Silicon.

Don Watkins
April 7, 2025April 7, 2025
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Job control cards that positively cannot be arranged in improper order will be.

— Troutman’s Programming Postulates

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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