@Dashrender said in Companies that use a Linux distro on workstations:

@JaredBusch said in Companies that use a Linux distro on workstations:

@Dashrender said in Companies that use a Linux distro on workstations:

@JaredBusch said in Companies that use a Linux distro on workstations:

@Dashrender said in Companies that use a Linux distro on workstations:

@travisdh1 said in Companies that use a Linux distro on workstations:

@Dashrender said in Companies that use a Linux distro on workstations:

I ask - does saying Linux really matter though? Isn't it much more important to actually list the distro? At least the OP asked specifically Linux Distro.

Which is why I listed the specific distribution and desktop. imo, it should always be linux as it is a generic term. Kind of like Windows, which one?

I read your statement like this "it should always be linux as it is a generic term.

HUH? so which side are you on?

Personally - I think the term linux should be dropped by everyone (well at least by 99.9%) because it's nearly meaningless.

Asking if something runs on linux is meaningless. Asking if something runs on Fedora or Ubuntu has meaning - because you know the actual OS you'll be running them on.

the generic nature of 'linux' is one of the most confounding confusers for laypeople. We should just drop it. it doesn't matter. We never talk about the Windows Kernel, or the Mac OS Kernel - We talk about Windows 10 (OK, we're starting to run into a problem here too because there are 7 versions of Windows 10 - and the same can be said for Mac OS). But if we drop the word linux, people can start talking about Fedora or Ubuntu, etc and suddenly the world becomes a smaller, much more manageable place.

Actually Linux should mean the same as Windows or MacOS anymore as you pointed out.

What specific build is what matters. W10R1510, W10R1809, Fedora, MacOS wtf ever those are called.

No - I disagree - Linux isn't like Windows or MacOS at all - Linux is not an OS - Windows/MacOS are OSes.

If you say, runs on Windows, you can be pretty damned sure it's going to run on Windows 10. if you say it runs on Linux, you have no clue if that's Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. And while we might be able to get it to work, the layperson would never even try with the requires to get onto a linux Distro it's not designed for.

Actually if it says runs on linux, it will run on pretty much all of them.

The developer may only provide binaries or packages for certain specific distros. But if it builds on one, it will build on pretty much all of them.

I gave you that out already - but I also said - normals will never do that. Which is the whole purpose of my comments... it's about normals, laypeople. Not IT pros.

people like me !
Well worse than me I guess.

@bnrstnr said in Deploying NodeBB 1.11.1 on CentOS 7 with MongoDB 4:

What specific reasons for the CentOS recommendation here?

Revisiting a little...

Basically the three main Linux releases supported by MongoDB are CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian. CentOS and Ubuntu here are mostly six of one. But CentOS 8 Stream I like a little more than the Ubuntu LTS options. We use Ubuntu a little more often than CentOS today, but in this case I feel that CentOS is slightly better for us. But really, all three options are perfectly fine. We just have to pick one.

So, circling back. How is the backup project going?

I just did it. The guide still applies, apart from getting 15 and not 13.

@stacksofplates said in Grub Entries cleanup and maintenance:

@travisdh1 said in Grub Entries cleanup and maintenance:

@DustinB3403 You never touch grub yourself. You let the system take care of it for you when it adds or removes kernels.

As to removing old kernels, it depends on the distribution you use. A good distro just takes care of this for you. The annoying ones make you do it manually.

RedHat/CentOS/Fedora = automatically cleans up older kernels. You don't do anything and it will keep a sane number by default. I think it's 4 and a recovery option.

Debian/Ubuntu = keeps all kernels till you manually remove them. I forget offhand what the command is besides it's an option for apt.

This is one reason I'm happily moving things from the old rental box to my new server for my home lab. The old rental box has Ubuntu with a tiny little 256MB /boot partition. It can keep ~3 kernels, and that's it, ugh!

You can install without /boot. IIRC there is a other config change with unattended-upgrades to auto remove kernels.

You normally can, yes. Since my current home lab box is a rental, I could only choose from the options they gave me at the time. Today, they'd let you use your own iso, but still wouldn't recommend them for anything other than a test lab.

@FATeknollogee said in Fedora 29 Server (or 28) install is stuck...?:

Update from SM:
"After we perform more test and use a non-widescreen monitor, we can finish installing Fedora 29 on our 4C version MB."

Very odd.

@Emad-R IOPS varies wildly by how it is tested. The question for your Windows tests would be... how was it tested? We know how the Linux was tested, it tells us. Knowing how the Windows was tested is the real need at this point.

@black3dynamite said in MeshCentral Agent Supported Linux Distros:

I'm able to connect to the Desktop on Fedora 29 Gnome (Xorg). At the lock screen too.

Same here.

@flaxking said in vTigerCRM Installation - Troubleshooting:

Is SuiteCRM's Cases feature decent?

Not a sales guy, not sure how it is.

I've run Pi-Hole in Docker, now I have it on Raspbian on Rpi 3+, I might deploy it inside Docker Swarm on my Rpi cluster at some point. I'm also trying out alternative, Adguard Home, on Rpi too, although installation is not as straightforward as Pi-Hole.

The dashboard has a pretty graph you can use to see what is going on at a high level.
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@StorageNinja said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On:

@Dashrender said in Why I Feel KVM Is the Easiest HyperVisor to Learn the Basics On:

The question is - why is the quality so bad? Isn't the process supposed to catch bad quality?

Their process is consider the windows insider group (extreme power users) to be a good enough replacement for proper QE teams, and writing automated build tests.

Right, the new process isn't to catch bad things, it's actually to see bad things as "not all that bad." Presumably because a shift from viewing their products as being for business to being for entertainment. Remember when Windows 95 was a key tool for businesses, but by Windows 98 they had made sure to put a "for entertainment purposes only" label on the product to make sure no one confused it with something that was intended for business use?

I feel like that's where they are now. At least internally, no one is really thinking of this as a business tool.

@dbeato said in Zimbra Update Fails with Validating LDAP Configuration, Cannot Create TLS Connection to LDAP Masters:

@scottalanmiller said in Zimbra Update Fails with Validating LDAP Configuration, Cannot Create TLS Connection to LDAP Masters:

So it worked by rebooting. WTF

Weird.

Very

Good to know, I use Ubuntu/Debian so I will check for that.

Sorry, ignore me. I got this figured out. I was being really dumb and had the wrong config.json file open and didn't know what I was looking at. Just ignore. Yes, the socket.io settings were missing, but were on my screen so I was sure that they were there.

@dafyre said in Fedora 29 Apache HTTPD Keeps Adding ssl.conf:

Have you tried creating a blank ssl.conf file and then chmod +i ssl.conf ?

I've not, but that's such a hockie way of doing it, I was hoping not to.

@scottalanmiller said in KVM with Cockpit on Fedora 29 Network Type Options Greyed Out:

When building a new VM using Cockpit's web interface to KVM on Fedora 29, the Network Type option leaves most options like Bridge to LAN, Generic ethernet connections, and Direct attachment greyed out. Anyone know why?

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Did you try with network manager? Any missing package?

Oops, we didn't not resolve this and moved to CentOS and there was no further issue.

@scottalanmiller said in NPM Errors on NodeBB Install on Amazon Linux:

@DustinB3403 said in NPM Errors on NodeBB Install on Amazon Linux:

Have you tried as root?

Everything was done as root. Amazon is all root by default.

yeah, the default user for centos is centos with your KMS or privatekey they create. For Ubuntu is Ubuntu.

Command was...

nvm use 0.10.8, as it was already installed here, just not in use.