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Jul 4, 2013 at 17:07

Today's experiment: trying to find a single program on my Arch Linux that has the same version as our Ubuntu server box. Failing miserably!

Jun 30, 2026 at 00:00

I've only got a few VPS instances, but setting hostnames automatically to match Ansible inventory makes my life so much easier. I should have done this way sooner. It's so much nicer than seeing wilfred@ubuntu on every box I ssh into.

Jul 7, 2024 at 22:49

I'm considering switching my personal servers (on Digital Ocean) from Ubuntu to Debian. I essentially just need something running Docker for most of my projects. Debian seems to require upgrading less often. Any opinions?

Apr 7, 2016 at 03:13

Fun udevd bug on Ubuntu: when not running under systemd, it would attempt to kill every process on the system!

Bug #1555237 “Upgrade from 14.04.4→ 16.04 dies midway taking out...” : Bugs : dbus package : Ubuntu

STEPS: 1. Install 14.04.4 on a uefi securebooted system 2. update it 3. Install openssh-server for debug access 4. reboot 5. Hit alt+f2 6. Type update-manager -d and hit enter EXPECTED: I expected a smooth transition to 16.04 ACTUAL: System is completely taken out mid way through the process killing the session and x also no tty when hitting ctrl+alt+f1-6 --- TESTS RESULTS (from cyphermox): On amd64 (no EFI) under qemu/libvirt, qxl graphics: - upgrading just libglib2.0-0 from 16.04 on to...

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