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Mon 17 June 2024

Fedora 39+ systemd-boot Surprise

Posted by fedops in Software   

For anyone who has been upgrading their Fedora installs from version to version there was a surprise event with the upgrade from 38 to 39. At that point the boot process was changed from using grub to systemd-boot. It's a testament to the smoothness with which Fedora maintainers execute even …

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Wed 13 April 2022

Using a Sun Keyboard under Linux

Posted by fedops in Hardware   

I got my start in system administration in the early 1990s, maintaining a university institute full of Sun Microsystems workstations. Those were the late days of the Unix wars, and the main contenders were Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), and Sun. Sun were well-loved …

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Wed 05 December 2018

Podcasts and Elementary OS

Posted by fedops in Media   

Time for another installment. There's a rundown of some favorite Linux listening and a neat distro I took a look at, Elementary OS.

Podcasts

I like to use my daily commute time to listen to podcasts. Here's a quick rundown of the Linux and Security ones I quite enjoy:

Podcast …

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