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GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
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TecMint ☛ Why Linux Powers Everything From Your Coffee Machine to Mars Rovers
We’re not talking about a niche technology anymore, because Linux has moved far beyond its reputation as something only programmers care about. Today, it’s the invisible force behind the internet you’re using, the movies you watch, the cars driving themselves, and yes, even the International Space Station orbiting above us.
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Desktop/Laptop
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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BSD
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MWL ☛ 108: Spent Decades Writing Scripts to Parse df(1)
With Networking for Systems Administrators production wrapping up, OpenZFS Mastery is starting to lurch forward. Here’s a tidbit. ZFS combines traditional filesystems and volume managers.
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Adriaan de Groot ☛ FreeBSD 14 and KDE
Huh, I started a blog post on November 11th, and then got distracted. What I was going to write was about KDE Plasma 6 on FreeBSD 14, how it does with Wayland, what kind of configuration surprises there are. And since then FreeBSD 15 has been released, which makes this title kind of moot, and I still need to write all the things down. The summary is short: with AMD graphics, KDE Plasma 6 Wayland is just fine for my workflow.
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Debian Family
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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It's FOSS ☛ Good News! Canonical Plans to Rebuild Ubuntu Wiki From Scratch
Current wiki to be decommissioned in August 2026 due to content quality, security and usability concerns.
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