@NerdyDad said in Suse Enterprise Linux for the Raspberry Pi:

I'm seeing it as a good entry level device to finally learn Linux Server administration at an affordable device. Granted the hardware isn't something that you're normally going to normally see in an enterprise environment, it would give me nearly identical experience managing a linux server in an enterprise environment.

The hardware doesn't matter at all. Like SAM suggested, go for a VM. There's no difference.

There are actually pitfalls in using a Pi, for example there isn't any RTC (realtime clock and battery). This can give you very weird results during reboots because next to no application expects a filetime to go backwards, which can happen without a working clock (depends on timing, network availability during reboot, working fake-hwclock package etc).

@Dashrender said in Senior Systems Engineer:

@RamblingBiped

What does does HR do if not put out accurate and reasonable job postings? 😛

I did my stint in IT/Engineering Recruiting many moons ago... I'm now blissfullly ignorant when it comes to the inner workings of human resources.

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I might put this on my project list one of these days.

@travisdh1 said in Zorin OS 12 Released:

Man, that looks lots better than most desktops. Don't think it will draw me away from KDE yet tho.

Zorin is gorgeous. They've been doing a good job for a while. Very popular with people coming over from Windows.

@StuartJordan said in Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation:

I would say everyone should raise a glass to Microsoft for this move.

They've been doing such a good job the last year or two. Very impressive.

Yes, Wine is included in the default repo of Ubuntu, so installing it from sources is a bad choice, and means you have to maintain it.

Although this may not address the issue he's having with this particular EXE on Ubuntu.

@scottalanmiller said in Is KDE Neon the Ultimate Linux Desktop:

@gjacobse said in Is KDE Neon the Ultimate Linux Desktop:

Mint or Neon could be going on the new laptop... when I decide on which one.

Neon is a version of KDE, not a desktop. Mint is a distro.

Am I that confusing this afternoon? Probably good I'm not answering questions at the moment.

@stacksofplates said in Open Firewall Ports on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7:

@coliver said in Open Firewall Ports on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7:

@stacksofplates said in Open Firewall Ports on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7:

@coliver said in Open Firewall Ports on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7:

@scottalanmiller said in Open Firewall Ports on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7:

@coliver said in Open Firewall Ports on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7:

Did anyone ever figure out if there was a way to setup files for firewalld? Or was the XML service files the way to go?

XML I think.

That's what I was afraid of. We're using IPTables on all of our OEL7 servers right now but I think moving to the default firewalld may be a good idea. I'll have to look into the XML config and see how much more difficult, if at all, it is over the IPTables file. It's a shame we can't just copy a single file around anymore but the XML files probably won't be too much more difficult.

Ya it's not bad at all. Here's the config from my Identity Management server. It's pretty similar to /etc/sysconfig/system-config-firewall on RHEL 6, just in zone specific XML files.

<zone> <short>Public</short> <description>For use in public areas. You do not trust the other computers on networks to not harm your computer. Only selected incoming connections are accepted.</description> <service name="http"/> <service name="https"/> <service name="ntp"/> <service name="dhcpv6-client"/> <service name="kerberos"/> <service name="ldaps"/> <service name="ssh"/> <service name="dns"/> <service name="ldap"/> </zone>

Those services are predefined right? You can also build your own services via the same process.

Ya and you can define specific ports. I prob could have grabbed a better example.

No, I think I've got it just need to investigate actually setting these up.

@jaredbusch said in ScreenConnect High CPU Usage:

@scottalanmiller said in ScreenConnect High CPU Usage:

Have another system doing this this week. Been about eight hours so far. We are thinking that it is just doing the database rebuild and compression work. But it is insane how much CPU gets used for this.

Do you not have it doing this on a regular schedule?

Not my system, it was moved to a different server and had to be rebuilt.

Oh this is another cool feature that was added recently.

Change Log 2.1.18 Image Mounting, browsing and archival.

@scottalanmiller said in Five Reasons Why Rolling Distros Are Better:

@dafyre said in Five Reasons Why Rolling Distros Are Better:

I've had OpenSuse Tumbleweed actually bork my laptop so I had to wipe & reload it... That's my only reserve about rolling distros.

Was it the rolling that did it?

Sadly, yes. One of the updated packages broke my video drivers (Nvidia Optimus / Bumblebee drivers) and they would recompile to fix it... The Last straw for me was the next update I ran a week or so later updated the Kernel and caused the video to flash incessantly unless I had an app on the screen that was using the NVIDIA GPU. It was odd...

I wiped and did a Mint 18 install after that, lol.

Edit: I do know the flashing video bug has been fixed.

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Linux Malware Detect and ClamAV on CentOS 7:

@travisdh1 said in Installing Linux Malware Detect and ClamAV on CentOS 7:

Any reason to use LMD instead of or in addition to rkhunter?

Doesn't rkhunter focus only on root kits?

Mostly, but this was the first time I remember hearing about LMD.

@stacksofplates said in Are There Veeam Repos for Linux Agent Packages:

@scottalanmiller said in Are There Veeam Repos for Linux Agent Packages:

@stacksofplates I want to check that out too. Is it available for more than RHEL?

Yup. Pretty much everything

Oh nice. Need to spend some time on it.