Ubuntu 16.04 went EOL on April 2021. In this post, I will demonstrate how to do an in-place upgrade to the latest release.
Category: linux
Automatically update EL8
In EL7, we can use yum-cron to automatically install updates. On EL8, the equivalent tool is dnf-automatic. Here is how to set it up.
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Add a keyboard shortcut on Ubuntu
Tired of typing the same thing repeatedly?
apache-2.2.34 and openssh-8.2p1 on EL6
Red Hat backports fixes and keep package versions as they are. At times, security scanners are not smart enough to know that. They’d complain the packages are out of date. Making it worse, apache 2.2 has reached EOL since 2018. And even though openssh is now on version 8.2, one will still find version 5.3…
Install ClearLinux
ClearLinux is made by Intel. Here I’ll try to install the server version on qemu-kvm.
CoreOS – the container Linux
CoreOS is a lightweight OS with docker. Here is how to install it on qemu-kvm, aka Virtual Machine Manager.