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Get Over Yourself and Support the Distro
Arch at home, Debian in the lab, RHEL and Ubuntu at work. I don't love IBM or Canonical either, and it changes nothing about what I run on a Monday morning — letting a corporate grudge pick your skill set isn't…
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Thirty-Three Years of Debian
Debian turns 33 this August. A look at why the free, stable, community-governed OS still anchors the Linux world — and how to give back on Debian Day.
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A Debian Veteran Tries CachyOS
After more than 20 years using Debian as a daily desktop, I tried CachyOS on a System76 Pangolin Pro. I expected Arch elitism. I found speed, polish, gaming performance, and a surprisingly practical Linux desktop.
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2026 Won’t Be “The Year of the Linux Desktop”
Linux won’t dominate desktops in 2026—but it may be the clearest turning point yet. Wayland maturity, better NVIDIA support, Proton gaming gains, and Flatpak’s app consistency are making Linux a real daily-driver option.
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A Turn-Key, Hardened WireGuard Stack for Debian 13
Deploy a production-ready WireGuard VPN with wg-easy, Caddy, Let’s Encrypt, UFW, fail2ban, unattended-upgrades, backups, health checks, and a TUI installer — all on Debian 13.
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All the Linux (maybe)
How many Linux distributions are there? Hundreds, but they come in a handful of families. A guided tour of the ones worth knowing in mid-2024, family by family, from Debian and Fedora to Arch, NixOS and the Android…
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Red Hat vs. Debian
The two great lineages of Linux: one built by a company to sell support, one built by volunteers bound by a social contract. How RHEL and Debian actually differ in release cycles, packaging, security defaults, support…
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The first Linux distributions appeared in 1992 because installing Linux by hand was brutal. A few are still with us more than thirty years later, a few changed everything and vanished, and a few are footnotes. The…
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Debian turns 31!
On August 16, 1993, a Purdue student named Ian Murdock announced a new Linux distribution built in the open by volunteers. Thirty-one years later Debian is the foundation of Ubuntu, Mint, Raspberry Pi OS, Kali and…
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FreePBX Moves to Debian
FreePBX 17, due any day now, leaves its CentOS-based distro behind and installs on Debian 12 instead. CentOS 7 reached end of life a month ago, so the timing isn't a coincidence. Why the move is right, what changes for…
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CrowdStrike’s History of Releasing Software That Breaks Operating Systems
Friday's Windows outage wasn't the first time this year a CrowdStrike update took down machines. Linux administrators running Debian and RHEL had already been through it, months earlier and with far less attention. What…
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OPINION: Why I Prefer Debian
Debian is my default for almost everything. Not because it's exciting, but because it's boring in all the right ways, and because nobody can sell it. The reasons, the trade-offs I accept, and where I'd pick something…