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Manjaro takes 1st place on Distrowatch

Yeah yeah, i'm late to the party, but i just now figured out that Manjaro Linux has captured the number one spot on Distrowatch, displacing Linux Mint. This happened some time within the last few...

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New guide: De-borking MP3s on Linux

I've been wanting to publish a guide for repairing and editing MP3s for a music collection on Linux for a long time. De-borking MP3s on Linux is nothing professional, but it's a starting point if you,...

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Introducing MP3 Factory for 'de-borking' MP3s on Linux!

I had written a bunch of Bash scripts that i was using to process downloaded MP3 files with the objective of correcting problems and dumping all the junk i didn't want to save in my music files, such...

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Linux goes ((( inclusive )))

yesterday... today... Linux Kernel Preparing New Guidelines For Using Inclusive Terminology - Phoronix Prominent upstream Linux kernel developers are working on adding "inclusive terminology"...

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Sick to death of Microsoft Windows spying on you? Here's a solution...

I'll keep this (semi) short and sweet. Think of this as the 'Dumping Windows for Dummies!' guide in the interest of privacy and security. If you're sick of Winblows as a desktop operating system (OS),...

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Linux vs. Windows - from a privacy perspective

First of all let's make it clear that Linux is not an operating system (OS), rather it is the integral part of many Linux-based operating systems known as the 'kernel'. While there are perhaps hundreds...

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Content update: user.js-notify.sh script for Firefox

I made a few small changes to my user.js-notify.sh script. This bash (Linux) script checks for updates to the 'arkenfox' user.js, my user-overrides.js, and also checks the last updated dates of my...

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Linux Hardening Guide

A reader sent me a link to what appears to be a very comprehensive Linux Hardening Guide by 'madaidan'. I'm not exactly sure what to think about the author as far as their technical knowledge since...

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MP3 Factory: Processing music files on Linux

I've been working on a Bash shell wrapper script for transcoding and processing music files on Linux OS's which i'm calling MP3 Factory. The script is in early/mid development and is working very well...

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Linux - The absurdity of choice

In the world of personal computers, what is a computer used for? I would argue that its purpose is to 'get shit done', whether it be watching BitChute videos or compiling the Linux kernel. Whatever the...

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Cool Android Apps

A handful of cool and useful free, mostly open source Android apps...

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Muzik Faktry: Processing music files on Linux

Muzik Faktry is under heavy development. Documentation is not complete and may not be not accurate. intro Apparently i'm an oddball because my music files usually contain only the artist, title and...

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A personal perspective: From Windows to Linux to Windows to Linux to...

The first personal computer i purchased was infected with the Windows 95 virus. I'm sure i hadn't even heard about Linux at that point and, while we're at it, let's get something straight right off the...

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From Windows to Linux

A personal perspective: From Windows to Linux to Windows to Linux to… – 12Bytes.org For the average user Linux may well be as good as Windows from a usability perspective and it's not authored by a f'n...

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Windows verses Linux: Which is the better PC OS?

There's already way too many articles that address the subject of which personal computer operating system (OS) is "better", Windows or GNU/Linux, but i figured i'd throw my own thoughts into the mix...

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Linux Distribution Timeline

Courtesy of Linux History...

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Linux User Plays Cruelest Joke EVER on Coworker

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A proposal for all users and developers of free software: Be a meanie! Don't...

There's more than enough real, imagined and engineered divisions between all of us including race, political beliefs, climate, vaccines, etc., and this divisiveness, often fabricated for political...

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