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Saw this posted elsewhere the other day and thought it was quite cute, clever, and funny.

Reading some of the titles of recent posts it struck me that a person (old Linux Geek) could become weary of seeing the "Which Distro Should I Use" question. Then I remembered there was a time when I was new to Linux and would very much have appreciated the advice of an 'Old Greybeard'. I...

I found this question & answer over on Distrowatch.com rather interesting. Just about everything performed in the terminal happens so fast I never gave it much thought because by the time I thought about it - it was already done! Terminal velocity

This is very disconcerting to me. A post was made commenting on what I believe is a valid and timely topic. Specifically, censorship and the political pendulum. I believe this is a worthy topic and should be discussed among Linux aficionados. Unfortunately the "moderator", in zealous proficiency...

@70 Tango Charlie this video made me think of you and your "wooden" car! :) You have got to see this. It is pretty ridiculous but made me smile. It's awesome! It is one of those situations where if someone asks "why" - the answer is - "just because I can!" - kind of like building a wooden car! o_O

I happened to see a video on Youtube by "OldTechBloke" about "InstantOS". This just may be the 'sample' which gets me 'hooked' on a tiling window manager :) Looks very interesting. Based on Arch with a "hybrid" DWM window manager. Am installing it in a VM right now but will probably install it...

Stumbled across this the other day. Looks like it could be a good resource for the 'beginner' Linux enthusiast (and me). https://www.tecmint.com/free-online-linux-learning-guide-for-beginners/

A rather interesting video from the guy who creates the "Switched To Linux" videos. He has posted quite a number of Linux related videos. I have watched some of them and found a few to be interesting. He just posted a video declaring that PayPal has closed his account for no apparent reason. I...

The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a new Cybersecurity Advisory about previously undisclosed Russian malware. The Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 85th Main Special Service Center (GTsSS) military unit 26165, whose...

Nice post on Tux Machines website about the August 2020 issue of PCLinuxOS magazine. In the article are links to the downloads. http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/140703

This question is related to another post here on Linux.org. I'm not very knowledgeable about UEFI as I have only just recently started using it. My question is: does the Linux kernel interact with the UEFI? I mean other than the BIOS POST handing off the boot process to the kernel or operating...

Here's a handy cheat sheet I stumbled upon today. If you like cheat sheets as I do this one may be worth a "look see" https://catonmat.net/gnu-coreutils-cheat-sheet P.S. The price is right also :)

This is a little weird; a while back I upgraded my system to Linux Mint 19.3. Everything seemed to have installed just fine but there is an odd little glitch when I run the Update Manager which results in multiple icons being displayed in the system notifications tray. Someone on here had a...

Here are some links to a couple videos I stumbled across a while ago. I found them quite interesting and thought they might be useful to anyone having trouble booting in UEFI/EFI mode.

This isn't really an "issue" but more of an oddity I noticed. Whenever I compose a post or reply to a post I noticed that any Unicode I enter does NOT post. It will usually show up in the 'compose' but when actually posted the characters are stripped or just do not show up. Is this the...

Something jogged my memory the other day and I remembered listening to this Podiobook years ago. I found it to be very entertaining and "hard to put down". I realize it may not appeal to everybody but as I listened I couldn't help but think of the main character as an "old hippy" - like me :)...

Anyone else here ever tried "Ultimate Edition"? http://ultimateedition.info/ Years ago I installed Ultimate Edition and took it for a test drive. It was really something! This was way back when I had not been using Linux for very long. Tons of eye-candy and loads of software included. It was...

This is in response to @Alexzee 's 'tag line' - "If it isn't broke don't fix it. If you can't fix it don't break it. You reap what you tweak." I am posting this here in the hope it may save someone else headache and heartbreak and in deference and homage to @Alexzee 's most excellent advice! :)

This is gonna be great! https://knome.org/ https://medium.com/linux-plus-plus/the-best-of-both-worlds-knome-176f19202769