CentOS Linux 8 Will End In 2021 And Shift To CentOS Stream

Possible Alternatives To CentOS Here are some alternatives identical to CentOS: 100% binary clones of Red Hat Rocky Linux Project Lenix Infograph Showing Where CentOS Stream Will “Sit” CentOS Stream will be a rolling release operating system, similar to Arch Linux. Therefore, it will NOT have version numbers and will site between Fedora and RedContinue reading “CentOS Linux 8 Will End In 2021 And Shift To CentOS Stream”

Telnet As An Amazing Troubleshooting Tool😲

The utility telnet gets a bad wrap sometimes but it is a powerful troubleshooting tool. You can use it to test if any port is listening – aka “open” – on any host. There’s a HUGE ASSUMPTION we are making when using this tool, but we’ll get to that in a moment. Here’s how toContinue reading “Telnet As An Amazing Troubleshooting Tool😲”

Read and Troubleshoot Linux Config Files 10x Faster!

One of the biggest pain-in-rears with being a Linux admin is reading config files. But not just reading them: TROUBLESHOOTING them. Config files can get very long, and have a lot of – albeit helpful – screen crowding comments and empty lines. Comments and empty lines are just something we don’t care about when weContinue reading “Read and Troubleshoot Linux Config Files 10x Faster!”