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9 articles
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AI Is Not the Solution. It's the Tool.
The argument against AI is the argument I heard against Google in 1998, with the nouns swapped. It was a bet against literacy then, and it lost. The tool is neutral; the judgment has to stay yours.
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ihasmail Goes Immutable: No Volume, No Database, Nothing Left Behind
Most "stateless" software still hides a config directory somewhere. ihasmail's IMMUTABLE=1 mode runs read-only with no volume at all — here's the trade-off, and two commands to verify it yourself.
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Google Borg
Before Kubernetes, Google ran everything on Borg — quietly, for over a decade. Here's how Docker forced its hand, and how it reshaped AWS, Azure, and VMware.
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A New Look for LINUXexpert.org
We just shipped a full redesign — a dark-first, terminal-inspired look built for how sysadmins actually read. Same content, same URLs, better filtering, and the password generator is back.
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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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Everything You Should Know About Being a Linux Sysadmin, But Probably Don't
A tongue-in-cheek look at veteran Linux sysadmins, the deprecated tools we refuse to give up, the culture we built that scares newcomers off, and the truce both sides need.
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A Day in the Life of a Linux Systems Engineer
Alex is made up. The day isn't. A realistic day in the life of a Linux systems engineer, from the 6 a.m. page to the evening pull request, and what each part of it says about the job that the job description leaves out.
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Enterprise Linux Engineer Essentials
The skills that separate a Linux engineer an enterprise trusts with production from someone who has memorized commands. The fundamentals that never go out of date, the modern stack on top of them, and the habits nobody…
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Introduction to OpenTofu: A New Era of Cloud Infrastructure Management
OpenTofu is Terraform as it was before HashiCorp changed the license, kept open by the Linux Foundation and now shipping features Terraform doesn't have. Where it came from, what it does, how to move to it, and why IBM…