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Celebrating technical writing with open source software

Jim Hall October 20, 2024
Celebrate the National Day on Writing by sharing your first article about open source software.
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Why I won’t use the BtrFS filesystem hard_drives
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Why I won’t use the BtrFS filesystem

David Both October 19, 2024
3 Over the more than twenty-five years I have been using Linux, the default filesystem for Red...
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Simplifying AI Interaction: A Deep Dive into Hollama’s Minimalist Web Interface for Ollama

Don Watkins October 18, 2024
I’ve continued the large language model learning experience with my introduction to Hollama. Until now, my experience...
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How to share your system configuration visually

Don Watkins October 17, 2024
Many individuals find it beneficial to disseminate their tailored Linux setup. This could be out of a...
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Calculate letter frequency in gawk

Jim Hall October 16, 2024
Write a gawk script to determine the most (and least) common letters in a set of words.
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Programming across platforms

Jim Hall October 15, 2024
Using these C compiler preprocessor directives to detect the operating system can make it easier to support...
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What are load averages — and what do they mean? htop-cpuHog-02
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What are load averages — and what do they mean?

David Both October 14, 2024
Most system monitoring tools like top, htop, atop, glances, and others display individual processes and information about...
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 11 — Store data in open formats

David Both October 13, 2024
Image by Opensource.com: CC-by-SA 4.0 Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 13 of...
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Linux User Accounts and Security

David Both October 12, 2024
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from Appendix 1 of my book, Linux for Small...
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How I use SSHFS to access remote filesystems

David Both October 11, 2024
2 I’ve taken a lot of digital pictures over the years, and scanned a bunch more prints...
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What is an operating system?

David Both October 10, 2024
1 The operating system manages the operation of the computer and of the application software which runs...
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The dd command — the Disk Destroyer The dd command — the Disk Destroyer
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The dd command — the Disk Destroyer

David Both October 9, 2024
Yes — dd — the disk destroyer. The command that strikes fear into the hearts of SysAdmins...
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Harnessing Ollama for financial analysis

Don Watkins October 8, 2024
Several weeks ago, a person asked me to assist her with organizing her financial records and taking...
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 10 — Use common sense naming command_line_prompt
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The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 10 — Use common sense naming

David Both October 7, 2024
Typing is not my forte and the Lazy SysAdmin does everything possible to reduce typing. I take...
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Perfctl malware infects thousands of Linux hosts since 2021

David Both October 6, 2024
ArsTechnica has an article about the thousands of Linux systems infected by this well-designed malware that’s been...
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Pandoc: Transform Your Documents with Ease 

Don Watkins October 5, 2024
Pandoc is a versatile command-line tool facilitating seamless file conversions between different markup formats. It supports an...
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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.

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)“.

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