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  1. 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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  2. Perl, the Strange Language That Built the Early Web

    A deep dive into Perl’s history, its role in building the early web, and how it influenced modern programming languages, package ecosystems, and developer culture.

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  3. Stop Saying “Actually, It’s GNU/Linux”

    New Linux desktop users don’t leave because they can’t learn—they leave because the community makes them feel unwelcome. The “Linux is just a kernel” / “Actually it’s GNU/Linux” correction is often semantic gatekeeping…

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  4. Don’t Date Your Ex

    Switching operating systems isn’t just a technical migration. It’s a habit migration. You’re moving muscle memory, assumptions, and identity—“this is how a computer works”—from one world to another.

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  5. Iron Maiden: Cathedral, Bazaar, and the Unintentional University of Metal

    Eddie x Tux: a heavy-metal tribute to open source, GNU/Linux, and remix culture—where riffs teach, ideas spread, and hackers share back.

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  6. 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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  7. When the Cathedral Ate the Bazaar: How Corporate Power Consumed Open Source

    Open source once thrived in the bazaar, but corporate consolidation, license changes, and platform lock-in have turned it into a cathedral. See how companies like IBM, Microsoft, HashiCorp, and Redis reshaped the…

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  8. From Bash to Python

    A seasoned Linux System Engineer shares their journey from heavy BASH scripting to adopting Python for automation, showing side-by-side examples and clear advantages in readability, safety, and long-term maintainability.

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  9. 2025 State of Tech Talent Report

    Discover how AI, upskilling, and open source are transforming the global tech workforce in 2025. Key takeaways for IT leaders, HR, and developers.

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  10. We are now powered by the FAIR Package Manager

    We're excited to announce that linuxexpert.org is now powered by the FAIR Package Manager — a new project from the Linux Foundation focused on making content management system (CMS) environments more secure, stable, and…

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  11. Supercharge Your Workflow

    Discover how free, open-source automation scripts from LINUXexpert.org can streamline your daily sysadmin tasks, reduce human error, and boost productivity.

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  12. From Licenses to Liberation

    A personal and technical retrospective from a veteran technologist who began with Banyan Vines, NetWare, and NT 3.51, and adopted Linux in 1996 to escape licensing restrictions. Explore how Linux matured from a niche…

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