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  1. IBM's Red Hat and Canonical's Snap both earned the anger they get.

    I still run RHEL and Ubuntu at work. Arch at home, Debian in the lab.

    Letting a vendor grudge pick your skill set isn't principle — it's cutting off your own career to spite a logo.

    apt vs dnf vs pacman is a shell-prompt argument, not an architecture one.

    Run what you love at home. Support what's on the floor at work.

    jcoffey.dev/articles/get-over-

    #Linux #Debian #ArchLinux #RHEL #Ubuntu #PlatformEngineering

  2. IBM's Red Hat and Canonical's Snap both earned the anger they get.

    I still run RHEL and Ubuntu at work. Arch at home, Debian in the lab.

    Letting a vendor grudge pick your skill set isn't principle — it's cutting off your own career to spite a logo.

    apt vs dnf vs pacman is a shell-prompt argument, not an architecture one.

    Run what you love at home. Support what's on the floor at work.

    jcoffey.dev/articles/get-over-

    #Linux #Debian #ArchLinux #RHEL #Ubuntu #PlatformEngineering

  3. IBM's Red Hat and Canonical's Snap both earned the anger they get.

    I still run RHEL and Ubuntu at work. Arch at home, Debian in the lab.

    Letting a vendor grudge pick your skill set isn't principle — it's cutting off your own career to spite a logo.

    apt vs dnf vs pacman is a shell-prompt argument, not an architecture one.

    Run what you love at home. Support what's on the floor at work.

    jcoffey.dev/articles/get-over-

    #Linux #Debian #ArchLinux #RHEL #Ubuntu #PlatformEngineering

  4. IBM's Red Hat and Canonical's Snap both earned the anger they get.

    I still run RHEL and Ubuntu at work. Arch at home, Debian in the lab.

    Letting a vendor grudge pick your skill set isn't principle — it's cutting off your own career to spite a logo.

    apt vs dnf vs pacman is a shell-prompt argument, not an architecture one.

    Run what you love at home. Support what's on the floor at work.

    jcoffey.dev/articles/get-over-

    #Linux #Debian #ArchLinux #RHEL #Ubuntu #PlatformEngineering

  5. IBM's Red Hat and Canonical's Snap both earned the anger they get.

    I still run RHEL and Ubuntu at work. Arch at home, Debian in the lab.

    Letting a vendor grudge pick your skill set isn't principle — it's cutting off your own career to spite a logo.

    apt vs dnf vs pacman is a shell-prompt argument, not an architecture one.

    Run what you love at home. Support what's on the floor at work.

    jcoffey.dev/articles/get-over-

    #Linux #Debian #ArchLinux #RHEL #Ubuntu #PlatformEngineering

  6. Das #Cern spart fast 6 Millionen Euro durch Umstieg von #RHEL auf #Debian, um veraltete Hardware weiterzuverwenden. RHEL 9 und 10 erfordern neue Hardware, die das Cern vermeiden will. Die Umstellung auf Debian 15 ist bis 2030 geplant, aktuell läuft Debian 12. golem.de/news/statt-rhel-cern-

  7. Das #Cern spart fast 6 Millionen Euro durch Umstieg von #RHEL auf #Debian, um veraltete Hardware weiterzuverwenden. RHEL 9 und 10 erfordern neue Hardware, die das Cern vermeiden will. Die Umstellung auf Debian 15 ist bis 2030 geplant, aktuell läuft Debian 12. golem.de/news/statt-rhel-cern-

  8. Das #Cern spart fast 6 Millionen Euro durch Umstieg von #RHEL auf #Debian, um veraltete Hardware weiterzuverwenden. RHEL 9 und 10 erfordern neue Hardware, die das Cern vermeiden will. Die Umstellung auf Debian 15 ist bis 2030 geplant, aktuell läuft Debian 12. golem.de/news/statt-rhel-cern-

  9. Das #Cern spart fast 6 Millionen Euro durch Umstieg von #RHEL auf #Debian, um veraltete Hardware weiterzuverwenden. RHEL 9 und 10 erfordern neue Hardware, die das Cern vermeiden will. Die Umstellung auf Debian 15 ist bis 2030 geplant, aktuell läuft Debian 12. golem.de/news/statt-rhel-cern-

  10. Das #Cern spart fast 6 Millionen Euro durch Umstieg von #RHEL auf #Debian, um veraltete Hardware weiterzuverwenden. RHEL 9 und 10 erfordern neue Hardware, die das Cern vermeiden will. Die Umstellung auf Debian 15 ist bis 2030 geplant, aktuell läuft Debian 12. golem.de/news/statt-rhel-cern-

  11. Package management is one of those things every Linux admin should know cold.

    Search for a package: dnf search packagename
    Install it: dnf install packagename
    Check what's installed: rpm -qa | grep packagename
    Remove it cleanly: dnf remove packagename

    Your package manager is your best friend. Treat it accordingly.
    #Linux #SysAdmin #PackageManagement #TechTip #RHEL

  12. #TechTipThursday
    Package management is one of those things every Linux admin should know cold.

    Search for a package:
    dnf search packagename

    Install it:
    dnf install packagename

    Check what's installed:
    rpm -qa | grep packagename

    Remove it cleanly:
    dnf remove packagename

    Your package manager is your best friend. Treat it accordingly.
    #Linux #SysAdmin #PackageManagement #TechTip #RHEL #RockyLinux

  13. A cautionary tale:

    #Linux #RHEL #VideoServer

    So, at @show we have two #45Drives servers... one is a storinator, running our main video production disk set, with about 700 TiB of drives. The second is a much older (pre-storinator) storage pod, with severely limited I/O but about 400 TiB for the urgent "DO NOT DELETE" stuff on it.

    The first is called "Kennedy". It has shares on it named after the Shuttles.

    The second is called "Baikonur" it has one share - Buran. It's used for backups.

    -----

    Before the thanksgiving break, I left both Kennedy and Baikonur up for an extended period, because I was 1) tweaking backups from Kennedy to Baikonur, and 2) I was doing some scrubs.
    Turned it off on Friday. Didn't think much about it - other than about three weeks ago, I'd told the server

    "Sudo Yum Update"
    You can see where this is going.
    Kennedy runs Rocky, which of course is RHEL-based.
    RHEL doesn't have ZFS natively, so you end up using open-ZFS.
    I told Kennedy to update. It did. Silently, building its kernel, without ZFS support.

    OH BUT DEAR READER IT GETS BETTER.

    Booting the machine, Samba goes "OK, I have THESE SHARES. It is THE LAW that I must MAKE THESE SHARES AVAILABLE". And Samba, being the pit of plague filled pestilence that it is, goes "I MUST SHARE THESE" and then goes "HUH, I CAN'T READ THESE SO LA LA LA LA I WILL MAKE THEM ANYWAY"
    So, I logged in to the server, expecting files, and saw nothing. None of the 700TiB of files were there . NONE. No data, nothing. The share was there, it just wansn't mapped.

    sigh

    After ten minutes, I realized that the new RHEL kernel doesn't have ZFS modules yet that work with it, so... I rolled back 😉

    And what have we learned children?

    ALWAYS READ RELEASE NOTES and ALWAYS CHECK COMPATIBILITY before doing SERVER UPGRADES.

  14. This week's Linux and FOSS news:

    LINUX NEWS

    Ubuntu LTS Releases Now Get 15 Years of Support:
    omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/ubuntu

    Ubuntu's Rust Transition Hits Another Bump as sudo-rs Security Vulnerabilities Show Up:
    itsfoss.com/news/sudo-rs-issue

    Nitrux 5.0.0 Released: A 'New Beginning' That's Not for Everyone (By Design):
    itsfoss.com/news/nitrux-5-rele

    MX Linux 25 'Infinity' arrives with a cleaner look and easier installation:
    betanews.com/2025/11/11/mx-lin

    Debian 13.2 Released With Dozens Of Fixes:
    phoronix.com/news/Debian-13.2-

    Tails 7.2 brings Tor Browser 15.0, Linux 6.12 LTS kernel, privacy upgrades, and more:
    alternativeto.net/news/2025/11

    Red Hat's RHEL 10.1 Released With systemd Soft-Reboots, Easier AI Accelerator Drivers:
    phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Ente

    SparkyLinux 8.1 released with updated software and desktop environments:
    alternativeto.net/news/2025/11

    GNOME's Nautilus File Manager Finally Supporting Ctrl+Insert & Shift+Insert:
    phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Nautil

    KDE Plasma 6.6 to get a great new feature - limit virtual desktops to the primary screen:
    gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/kde-

    Plasma 6.6 Will Avoid Running Out Of RAM When Something Crashes In A Loop:
    phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.6-B

    Budgie 10.9.4 adds libpeas2 support, ABI bumps, and Raven plugin changes:
    alternativeto.net/news/2025/11

    Miracle-WM Adds Accessibility, Touchpad & Animation Options:
    omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/miracl

    Linux’s Slickest System Monitor App (Mission Center) Gets Updated:
    omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/missio

    Maemo Leste status report: system ported to Devuan Daedalus, new CI/CD, updated browser, calendar and chat app, improved hardware support, etc.:
    maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-le

    (more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

    #WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #Ubuntu #Nitrux #MXLinux #Debian #Tails #TailsOS #RHEL #SparkyLinux #GNOME #KDE #KDEPlasma #Budgie #Miracle_wm #MaemoLeste #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #LinuxDesktop #DesktopLinux #LinuxDistro #DistroRelease #DesktopEnvironment #FosseryTech

  15. @Cfkschaller How crazy and/or how much of a non-starter this idea would even be:

    RHEL Workstation's desktop components as an application stream.

    The core motivation here is to enable RHEL customers to use the latest Workstation environment on older RHEL versions (within logistical and practical reasoning). For example, GNOME 47 from RHEL 10 available for installation on RHEL 9.

  16. I've just merged a huge PR to my #Orked (O-tomated RKE Distribution - GREAT NAME I KNOW) that makes it easier than ever for anyone to set up a production-ready #RKE2 #Kubernetes cluster in their #homelab.

    With this collection of scripts, all you need to do is just provision the nodes required, including a login/management node, and run the scripts right from the login node to configure all of the other nodes to make up the cluster. This setup includes:

    - Configuring the Login node with any required or essential dependencies (such as
    #Helm, #Docker, #k9s, #kubens, #kubectx, etc.)

    - Setup passwordless
    #SSH access from the Login node to the rest of the Kubernetes nodes

    - Update the
    hosts file for strictly necessary name resolution on the Login node and between the Kubernetes nodes

    - Necessary, best practice configurations for all of the Kubernetes nodes including networking configuration, disabling unnecessary services, disabling swap, loading required modules, etc.

    - Installation and configuration of RKE2 on all the Kubernetes nodes and joining them together as a cluster

    - Installation and configuration of
    #Longhorn storage, including formatting/configuring their virtual disks on the Worker nodes

    - Deployment and configuration of
    #MetalLB as the cluster's load-balancer

    - Deployment and configuration of
    #Ingress #NGINX as the ingress controller and reverse proxy for the cluster - this helps manage external access to the services in the cluster

    - Setup and configuration of
    #cert-manager to obtain and renew #LetsEncrypt certs automatically - supports both #DNS and HTTP validation with #Cloudflare

    - Installation and configuration of
    #csi-driver-smb which adds support for integrating your external SMB storage to the Kubernetes cluster

    Besides these, there are also some other
    helper scripts to make certain related tasks easy such as a script to set a unique static IP address and hostname, and another to toggle #SELinux enforcement to on or off - should you need to turn it off (temporarily).

    If you already have an existing RKE2 cluster, there's a step-by-step guide on how you could use it to easily configure and join additional nodes to your cluster if you're planning on expanding.

    Orked currently expects and supports
    #RockyLinux 8+ (should also support any other #RHEL distros such as #AlmaLinux), but I am planning to improve the project over time by adding more #Linux distros, #IPv6 support, and possibly even #K3s for a more lightweight #RaspberryPi cluster for example.

    I've used this exact setup to deploy and manage vital services to hundreds of unique clients/organisations that I've become
    obsessed with sharing it to everyone and making it easier to get started. If this is something that interests you, feel free to check it out!

    If you're wondering what to deploy on a Kubernetes cluster - feel free to also check out my
    #mika helm chart repo 🥳

    🔗 https://github.com/irfanhakim-as/orked

    🔗 https://github.com/irfanhakim-as/charts

  17. So, #Linux users of #Mastodon, what is your recommendation for a #distro for a techy person who used to use Linux ( #MEPIS was my favorite flavor back when I was using #Nix regularly, but I did run #Mint, #Ubuntu (12.04 or 12.10 was the last version I ran exclusively as the main OS on one of my PCs...which, was, 11ish years ago? Rude), #Xubuntu, #Lubuntu, #Kubuntu (getting the picture?), #PuppyLinux, #ArchLinux, #Slackware (is that still a thing?), #KaliLinux (Started using it when it was #BackTrack, though), #FreeBSD, #FedoraLinux (12 or 13?), #RedHat (#RHEL) etc.

    You get the picture...I used mostly #Canonical / #Debian based OSes, but had a sprinkling of #RPM based, and others. I did some small modifications to the #Kernel and such, Almost got MEPIS running on an old #IBM #ThinkPad, and was able to salvage a lot of data from "dead," machines thanks to 'Nix.

    These days, however, I just want one that works. I have way too much going on to mod and have to mess with it constantly to keep it working.

  18. Recommended conference talk from my co-worker Adam Šamalík:

    Stream: development in public

    fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event