Ben Cotton

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Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training, but weather makes a great hobby. Ben works as the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. He is the author of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Find him on Twitter (@FunnelFiasco) or at FunnelFiasco.com.

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Authored Content

Programming keyboard.

Learn advanced SSH commands with this cheat sheet

We round up handy SSH commands to help you connect to remote servers.

Open video

Digitizing VHS with Fedora

VCRs won't be around forever. Here's how to convert your old VHS tapes to digital format in just a few steps.

A diagram of a branching process

CLA vs. DCO: What's the difference?

Both show that a contributor is allowed to make a contribution and that the project has the right to distribute it. But which one is better?

Top 5: Perl hashes and arrays, landing a Linux day job, and more

Take a quick look back at the week's best articles.

Top 5: Building great CLIs, an open source 2D gaming engine, and more

Top 5: SpaceX, drone projects, vi tips, and more

Take a quick look back at highlights from this week.

Star Trek: inspiring people and their tech since 1964

Everything I know about open source I learned from SpaceX

Five lessons from the spectacular Falcon Heavy launch for people working on open source projects.

Authored Comments

9 Apr 2019

5 open source mobile apps

Thankfully, life has never handed me that particular lemon. Whenever I've had to do something like that, I've always pulled out the laptop instead.

9 Apr 2019

5 Linux rookie mistakes

Oh no! As often as I make typos, I am amazed I've never managed this one.