Category Archives: Unix
Is OpenIndianna a viable replacement for CentOS8, for me no
A post in my ongoing saga to find a replacement operating system for CentOS8. These posts are primarily notes I am making for myself on why I consider an OS an acceptable replacement or something I personally cannot use to … Continue reading
Is openSUSE Leap a viable replacement for CentOS8, for me no
A post in my ongoing saga to find a replacement operating system for CentOS8. These posts are primarily notes I am making for myself on why I consider an OS an acceptable replacement or something I personally cannot use to … Continue reading
Is Debian a viable alternative to CentOS8, for me yes
Since the RedHat announcement that CentOS8 ‘stable’ is becoming a test system on centOS8 ‘stream’ rather than being provided as a stable system anymore many people are looking for alternative operating systems. I have already covered in the previous post … Continue reading
The Oracle conversion script to convert CentOS to Oracle Linux, and an alternative
As mentioned in my previous post there is a script supplied to convert CentOS systems to Oracle Linux, available at https://github.com/oracle/centos2ol. As mentioned in that post it is not safe to use at the currect time. At the end of … Continue reading
Is Oracle Linux a viable alternative to CentOS
By now you are all aware of the RedHat/IBM decision to destroy CentOS as a viable stable platform. Oracle has been suggested on many Forums as an alternative. While some responses on forums indicate a belief that Oracle Linux is … Continue reading
Still wanting to play those old SWF Flash files browsers no longer support ?
Want to be able to use those old Shockwave Flash files again ? As we all know all browsers are dropping support for Flash due to its security risks. This can be an issue if you have a large collection … Continue reading
Installing OpenStack Ussuri in a multicompute node configuration in your home lab
This post covers installing from the RDO project documentation that can be found at https://www.rdoproject.org, it uses the ‘packstack’ tool covered at https://www.rdoproject.org/install/packstack with the main changes in this post being defining additional compute nodes plus installing heat support as … Continue reading
DropBox and its LanSync facility
First let me make it clear this post is on dropbox as used in a Linux environment, specifically for this post Fedora (Fedora 32). Dropbax clients may behave differently in different environments. What is lansync The dropbox reference pages promote … Continue reading
Ansible vs Puppet, why I chose Puppet
First off let me make it clear I looked at options for automating configuration quite a while ago and chose puppet as the most secure option. I still believe that to be the case. The issue I have with options … Continue reading
Getting AWSTATS running on CentOS8
First let me make it clear I prefer webalizer to awstats; however webalizer is not available in the repositories after CentOS7. It is also worth noting that both webalizer.org and mrunix.net (where webalizer sources/downloads could be manually obtained) appear to … Continue reading