Jim Hall

5850 points

Minnesota

Jim Hall is an open source software advocate and developer, best known for usability testing in GNOME and as the founder + project coordinator of FreeDOS. At work, Jim is CEO of Hallmentum, an IT executive consulting company that provides hands-on IT Leadership training, workshops, and coaching.

Open Sourcerer People's Choice Award People's Choice Award 2018 Author Linux Contributor Club

Authored Content

How to use LibreOffice Writer templates

Get started writing on Linux in a flash by using a LibreOffice template.

How I use the Linux fmt command to format text

The fmt command is a trivial text formatter. Here's how I use it to format text and email replies.

Listen to music on Linux with Rhythmbox

Here's how I like to listen to streaming music and MP3 playlists with Rhythmbox on GNOME with Linux.

ABCs of FreeDOS: 26 commands I use all the time

On its 28th anniversary, I'm pleased to share my top 26 favorite FreeDOS commands.

How I use LibreOffice keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts keep me focused on the content that I'm meant to deliver, and not its appearance.

Person drinking a hat drink at the computer

How I gave my old laptop new life with the Linux Xfce desktop

While I installed Linux to use my laptop for a few demos at a conference, I found Linux and the Xfce desktop made this old laptop feel quite snappy.

Authored Comments

Jim Hall

25 Sep 2021

Use this Linux command-line tool to learn more about your NVMe drives

Great article! I didn't know about this set of commands to examine NVMe drives. My desktop has an NVMe in it. Looks like I'm doing okay so far:

$ sudo nvme smart-log /dev/nvme0
Smart Log for NVME device:nvme0 namespace-id:ffffffff
critical_warning : 0
temperature : 35 C
available_spare : 100%
available_spare_threshold : 10%
percentage_used : 2%
endurance group critical warning summary: 0
data_units_read : 7,336,493
data_units_written : 17,442,001
host_read_commands : 59,730,342
host_write_commands : 173,036,281
controller_busy_time : 244
power_cycles : 1,271
power_on_hours : 1,249
unsafe_shutdowns : 37
media_errors : 0
num_err_log_entries : 1
Warning Temperature Time : 0
Critical Composite Temperature Time : 0
Thermal Management T1 Trans Count : 0
Thermal Management T2 Trans Count : 0
Thermal Management T1 Total Time : 0
Thermal Management T2 Total Time : 0

Jim Hall

29 Jun 2021

A brief history of FreeDOS

FreeDOS turns 27 years old today! Thanks to everyone who works on FreeDOS! :-)