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Embracing the Festive Spirit: Celebrating Holidays Open Source Style! Tux-happy-holidays-02
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Embracing the Festive Spirit: Celebrating Holidays Open Source Style!

Don Watkins December 6, 2024
The holiday season is upon us once again, and this year, I decided to celebrate in an...
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Top 5 open source stories of 2024

David Both December 5, 2024
2024 has been an interesting year in the news for many reasons. The open source world has...
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Use ImageMagick to work with images command_line_prompt
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Use ImageMagick to work with images

Jim Hall December 4, 2024
ImageMagick is a handy multipurpose command-line tool for all your image needs.
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Celebrating 30 years of open source with FreeDOS screenshot of FreeDOS 1.3 booting on QEMU
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Celebrating 30 years of open source with FreeDOS

Jim Hall December 3, 2024
Explore retrocomputing with this open source operating system that recently turned 30 years old.
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5 ways to get the most out of Bash

Jim Hall December 2, 2024
With a little Bash scripting, you can automate tasks on your Linux system. Learn more with these...
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Your Guide to Making a Difference in Open Source OSDC_Penguin_Image_520x292_12324207_0714_mm_v1a-Cropped
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Your Guide to Making a Difference in Open Source

Don Watkins December 1, 2024
You don't have to be a developer to give back to the open source community.
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Stupid SysAdmin tricks osdc_terminals_0
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Stupid SysAdmin tricks

David Both November 30, 2024
When working on multiple remote systemd using the command line — Be sure you’re working in the...
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Why doesn’t my dict command work? metrics_data_dashboard_system_computer_analytics
  • Linux

Why doesn’t my dict command work?

David Both November 28, 2024
I upgraded to Fedora 41 as soon as it became available about a month ago. Most things...
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Embracing Open-Source Solutions in the Age of AI: A Path to Digital Independence wfh_work_home_laptop_work
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Embracing Open-Source Solutions in the Age of AI: A Path to Digital Independence

Don Watkins November 27, 2024
Everywhere you look, whether in print or on the web, the rage is AI. I’m part of...
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Fedora rescue mode fails

David Both November 26, 2024
Have you ever noticed the bottom line on the GRUB bootloader menu? Well, you won’t unless you’re...
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Linux signals — sending system-level commands to programs fail_progress_cycle_momentum_arrow
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Linux signals — sending system-level commands to programs

David Both November 25, 2024
A user and SysAdmin guide Let’s say you’ve got a program running that you want to terminate....
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How Markdown empowers technical writers building_blocks
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How Markdown empowers technical writers

Don Watkins November 24, 2024
I’ve long been a writer, but writing and publishing have been challenging. Pencil or pen and paper...
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Joplin: The Ultimate Note-Taking App programming_code_keyboard_orange_hands
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Joplin: The Ultimate Note-Taking App

Don Watkins November 23, 2024
I spend much of my day on the go, whether walking around my village or traveling nearby....
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How I find and kill rogue programs programming_keyboard_coding
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How I find and kill rogue programs

David Both November 22, 2024
As useful and important as Firefox is to my ability to interact with the outside world, create...
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Managing processes with kill and killall Network components
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Managing processes with kill and killall

Jim Hall November 21, 2024
Process management can be an important part of system maintenance.
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Print double-sided documents with this Bash script

Jim Hall November 20, 2024
Use Bash to print 2-sided documents on a printer that can only print on one side.
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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.

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David Both ATO Interview

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