LPIC-1: study guide for exams 101 and 102
Prepare for LPIC-1 with official objectives, a study plan, and exercises covering the terminal, permissions, links, backup, scripts, and packages.
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Linux course from Toca do Tux: from migration to administration
If you have always wanted to switch to Linux — or already use it and want to stop relying on a tutorial for every task — this post is a direct invitation: Gabriel da Silveira Costa, creator of the Toca do Tux channel, offers the Udemy course “Linux: From Migration to Operating System Administration,” with enrollment … Read more
How Linux Conquered the World: 35 Years in 35 Facts
Video summary: this article is a detailed summary of “How Linux Took Over the World: 35 Years in 35 Facts” from Jono Bacon, former Ubuntu community leader at Canonical. Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffl2DFHoZdY On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish student wrote a sentence that Jono Bacon … Read more
Linux 7.3: up to 5x faster Btrfs, Nvidia's Rust driver, and AI patch chaos
Video summary: this article is a detailed, in-depth summary of “Linux 7.3 Review: AI Chaos, MASSIVE Performance, GPU, CPU, and Rust Upgrades” from SavvyNik, combined with Linus Torvalds’s official announcement closing the merge window. Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ5adDeOGb0 The Linux 7.3 kernel merge window … Read more
Installing .NET 10 on Linux
Anyone still saying “.NET Core 10” is not wrong about its history — the Core name ended at 3.1. Since version 5, the platform has simply been called .NET. Version 10 came out on November 11, 2025, is LTS until November 14, 2028, and in September 2026 the stable SDK is 10.0.400 … Read more
The story of Ian Murdock: Debian's founder
In August 1993, a 20-year-old Purdue student was frustrated with Softlanding Linux System. Broken packages, a fragile installation, a distribution treated as an afterthought. Instead of continuing to patch SLS, Ian Ashley Murdock (Konstanz, April 28, 1973) announced that he would start from scratch — openly, in the spirit of GNU … Read more
The history of Linus Torvalds: the hobby that became the kernel
On 25 August 1991, a 21-year-old student in Helsinki told the comp.os.minix group he was doing “a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)”. Thirty-five years later, the kernel born from that hobby runs most of the internet servers, … Read more
Linux turns 35: from hobby to the foundation of the internet and AI
On August 25, 2026, Linux turned 35. In 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish student named Linus Torvalds posted a message to comp.os.minix that would become history: Hello to everybody out there using minix — I am making a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional … Read more
Running local AI on Linux with Ollama
Running AI models locally is no longer just a laboratory activity: with Ollama, you download and run LLMs on your own Linux machine without sending data to the cloud or paying per token. This post explains where the project came from — its origin explains much of its design — and shows how … Read more
Mastering systemd: essential commands
Like it or not, systemd is the init system of virtually every current distribution — Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch, openSUSE. Mastering half a dozen commands handles 90% of everyday service management. Here are the essentials, straight to the point. Managing services systemctl status nginx # status, PID, last log lines sudo systemctl … Read more