Re: [nlug] Choosing Distro

2022-08-24 Thread Csaba Toth
Our mileage varies greatly. Just this week I'm installing a new laptop. My stance is that I never want to do a dist upgrade and getting stuck with old packages for years. I want to get updates in small little bytes at a time, so I was loogin for rolling distros. I've been rolling with Devuan

Re: [nlug] Choosing Distro

2022-08-24 Thread Howard White
Paul, Yes, there is a useful utility in RHEL distros called 'needs-restarting' that is in the 'yum-utils' package. The analog in Ubuntu is to look in the /var/run directory and look for things named 'reboot-required,' specifically the file 'reboot-required.pkgs'. I even wrote a Nagios test

[nlug] Choosing Distro

2022-08-24 Thread Paul Boniol
As previously noted, I've got some issues with my current Linux desktop / home media server. I had been going with a Ubuntu based distro because I used to use MythTV, and there used to be Mythbuntu that had it largely ready to go. (FYI once you had MythTV working, there were many posts telling of

Re: [nlug] [SOLVED] Re: DNF certificates for Rocky 8.6

2022-08-24 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 05:30:00PM -0700, Csaba Toth wrote: > Maybe if you are an operator at the secret uranium enrichment plant in > Nathanz Iran and you want an air gap for fortification, then you don't want > networking (even in that case the Stuxnet / Olympic Games will jump the air > gap,

Re: [nlug] DNF certificates for Rocky 8.6

2022-08-24 Thread Kent Perrier
No need to re-install. On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 8:24 AM Greg Donald wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 10:03 AM Tilghman Lesher > wrote: > > That's not beyond the license terms. They say that you can use the > > developer license on up to 16 machines, which include "small > > production

Re: [nlug] DNF certificates for Rocky 8.6

2022-08-24 Thread Greg Donald
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 10:03 AM Tilghman Lesher wrote: > That's not beyond the license terms. They say that you can use the > developer license on up to 16 machines, which include "small > production servers". They don't exactly specify what "small" means in > this regard: > > "The use cases