Browsing How to rebase to Fedora Linux 38 on Silverblue – from Fedora Magazine I just discovered that Fedora Silverblue is a new variant of Fedora Workstation with rpm-ostree at its core to provide fully atomic upgrades. Furthermore, Fedora Silverblue is immutable and upgrades as a whole, providing easy rollbacks from updates if something goes…
Category: Fedora – RedHat
Documentations, Fedora - RedHat
As I wished to add a little NextCloud installation to my small corporate server I used its web installer that quaralled that PHP 7.2 is too old. I was used to Debian way of handling multiple versions of a package (having the major version in the package name). These notes on server-world.info reminded me dnf…
Fedora - RedHat
Progressively un-centoing
I got slightly annoyed when Centos were terminated. In my efforts to Fedorize the server I use everyday to host the WordPress blog that records most of the work done on our Quality Managament System I encountered this annoying error Failed to download metadata for repo ‘appstream’: Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: No URLs in mirrorlist…
Fedora - RedHat
How To Upgrade From Fedora 32 To Fedora 33
How To Upgrade From Fedora 32 To Fedora 33 [CLI & Graphical Methods] | Linux Journal It’s so simple with the GUI, but I’m a shell guy, so $ sudo dnf upgrade –refresh $ sudo dnf install dnf-plugin-system-upgrade $ sudo dnf system-upgrade download –releasever=33 $ sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot
Fedora - RedHat
Epiphany on CentOS 7
I’m quite puzzeled: Centos 7 contains the same software as RedHat so knowing that Red Hat is one of the forces behind Gnome one would expect to find Web, the browser once known as Epiphany to be installed or at least installable on it. Nope. As I discoverede reading Gnome 3 on CentOS 7 –…
Fedora - RedHat, Wordpress
Sometimes it is annoying
Who? SELinux of course! Mind me, it is a wonderful tool. Tell me I’m old-fashioned, tell me I’m unacknowledged about the security it brings. This after I just wanted to add a theme to my WordPress inner company blog. SELinux kept saying something like “I don’t think so!”.
Fedora - RedHat
Debianisms
I was going to enable mod_rewrite on the new work box, discovering that CentOS doesn’t have a2enmod. So reading apache 2.2 – CentOS“-bash: a2enmod: command not found” – from Server Fault I discovered that a2enmod is a debianism, on CentOS you will need to do this manually. Please refer to the Apache documentation to find…
Fedora - RedHat
Hugin on Centos 7
To update corporate website and for a EcoMondo I had to stitch some photos I’ve made a couple of weeks ago. As usual I wanted to use Hugin. yum install hugin told me that my new Centos 7 machine don’t have it. Ok, let’s search for a proper repo. Too bad there isn’t. Ok, let’s…
Fedora - RedHat, GNU/Linux, Mood
Weirdness
One feels smart, he has written a nice DVD of CentOS 7 to be installed on his shiny new box. Have you noticed something strange and silly in the above photo?
Fedora - RedHat, Fun
Printers
Richard Stallman back in the late ’70 were compelled to start GNU project because he cannot hack the firmware of a prototype of a laser printer. Fourty years later people using software libero still quarrel with printers. Me for example…. on the previous (Ubuntu) box I was able to smoothly use that printer. Now Centos…