ubuntu server

[crp]

Leaving CentOS and the Alma branch of it for a Linux server. CentOS ain't CentOS anymore and Alma was quite the disappointment.

Was going to use straight Debian but decided on using Ubuntu instead.

 

1st impressions:

• surprised that booting takes quite a bit longer than the CentOS
• using a gui is a pain in Ubuntu as well
• iptables! 

 

have not gotten to installing interesting services yet, right now trying to get more comfortable with a setup that i can use.

that   docker  comes "preinstalled" is quite interesting.

 

[securitybreach]

Rocky is what CentOS users moved to once RedHat acquired them and change the development model.

 

Quote

Rocky Linux is an open-source enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux®. It is under intensive development by the community.

 

https://rockylinux.org/

 

I have a buddy that migrated his company's servers from CentOS to Rocky and he said it was pretty painless as a drop in replacement.

[sunrat]

10 hours ago, securitybreach said:

bug-for-bug compatible

 

[securitybreach]

1 hour ago, sunrat said:

 

 

Yeah, I thought that was a nice touch.

[crp]

so, still feeling my way around this strange new world

 

How do I see (and manage) the network ip addresses from the gui? I'd really like to be able to see ip address from taskbar.

thought it would be under Settings->Network, but nope

 

and indicator-ip repository is evidently not setup according to the rules and apt will not use it.

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Wish I could be of some assistance to you, but waaaay too long since I played with Ubuntu in any serious fashion.