Fedora on passthejoe

When installing ufw closes all the ports

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:00:00 -0700

There comes a time in my setup of a Linux/Unix system where I want to tinker with the firewall. And I usually install ufw — the “Uncomplicated Firewall” to do it. It’s not complicated, and I like that.

But if you have existing services running on your server or workstation that you installed with a Linux package manager such as apt or dnf/yum, you have to remember to reopen all the ports you need, because the installation of ufw on most systems closes all of those ports.

How hard is it to move a Hugo setup from one computer to another?

Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:48:34 -0800

I’ve done a lot of operating system switching over the past many months and not a whole lot of blogging. My question: Does this thing still work?

It’s not a terrible question. I’m maybe four complete OS changes away from the last time I really used this system, and now I’m on immutable/atomic Fedora Silverblue, yet the Hugo binary I stashed with this blog’s source still seems to work.

But will all of my scripts get this post to the live site? If you see this, it worked.

Not a review of CentOS Stream 8

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 12:00:12 -0700

I have so many notes. I started running CentOS Stream 8 five months ago, and I wanted to document every win, loss, setback and solution as I tried to make what isn’t really a desktop distribution — Red Hat Enterprise Linux (and its clones) — into my laptop operating system.

I’m not going to look at my notes. This non-review won’t write itself, and the notes aren’t going to do it for me.

Pausing the Linux rebuild

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 16:48:56 -0700

I was all ready to crack open the HP Envy 15 laptop this afternoon, pull the 250 GB NVMe M.2 SSD and replace it with a 1 TB model. While in there, I planned to replace the battery, which has a dead cell.

But I decided to press “pause.”

I started running Linux on this particular laptop in 2019 (??) with Debian Stable (then Buster), replacing it with Testing (Bullseye) maybe a couple of months ago.

Reinstalling a Linux computer system: Step by step

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 09:39:10 -0700

I’m about to put a new hard drive and battery in my main laptop, a 2017 HP Envy 15.

Whenever I make a change like this, I like to be ready with backups, Linux install images on USB drives and whatever tools and parts I might need.

I’m not as worried about running into problems because I now have a very decent second computer — the 2011 27-inch iMac running Debian Buster — if the laptop isn’t ready right away, I’ll still be able to work.

CentOS Stream and the end of the CentOS clone: perils, pitfalls, risks and opportunities for Red Hat

Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:06:24 -0800

Red Hat unleashed the kraken with its recent announcement that its CentOS 8 clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux would be shut down in 2021 instead of 2029, to be replaced by the newish CentOS Stream 8.

What is CentOS Stream? It is a reimagining of CentOS as a continuously delivered yet version-constrained development distribution that tracks ahead of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 yet stays within the RHEL 8 world from an ABI (Application Binary Interface)-compatibility standpoint.

Upgrading my now-dying 2012 laptop to Fedora 32 probably won't happen

Sat, 09 May 2020 14:25:37 -0700

My 2012 HP Pavilion g6 laptop’s keyboard and touchpad are working intermittently. I’ve already replaced the keyboard twice. They are crazy cheap to buy (and also cheap in quality), but I’m tired of doing it. Not sure what is wrong with the touchpad, but it’s about time to cut my losses.

The laptop has run Fedora for a LONG time. It is now on F30. It has gone through many upgrades between about 2013 and 2019. I did a backup and downloaded the Fedora 32 upgrade, but that’s as far as I went. I have all the user files backed up. I could plug in an external keyboard and mouse, and it’ll work fine, but it’s pretty slow. It’s not worth investing in a SATA SSD and is already maxed out at 8 GB of RAM.

Firefox vs. Chrome on Windows and Linux

Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:51:06 -0800

I spent quite a bit of time running Google Chrome/Chromium on both Windows and Linux, but between feeling uncomfortable giving away so much data to Google (when logged in on Chrome) and how well Firefox performs on Linux (which is very well from what I can see), I now use Firefox about 99 percent of the time in Fedora 20.

But on my Windows 7 work machine, which is a more powerful (quad-core AMD to my laptop’s dual-core, with 8 GB of RAM to the laptop’s 4 GB), I flip it, using Chrome about 99 percent of the time.