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Distro selection for 2023 and beyond

Posted on zo 23 oktober 2022 in hardware

Every other year or so I come up with a list of tools/technologies I will focus on for the next few years. Right now I'm in the proces of considering RHEL9 as a desktop (as I work for a client which is heavily invested in RHEL), but I might …


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Minor challenges on the Linux Desktop part 999 *update*

Posted on zo 23 oktober 2022 in hardware

So I'm still in the process of getting my Dell XPS Desktop from 2012 tweaked running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 9 as an operating system.

The reason I moved from Zorin to RHEL was because of kernel driver issues running VMWare Workstation on Zorin. Ofcourse now that I'm running …


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Time to install another Linux distro on the desktop *updated*

Posted on do 13 oktober 2022 in hardware

Totally installing RHEL on an old desktop still lingering around here. I tried Zorin first, which is a fine desktop OS. But apparently it is the bad month to be trying to run VMWare Workstation 16 on top of that.

I got al sorts of kernel module shizzle I hadn't …


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Updated Gadget Wishlist

Posted on di 11 oktober 2022 in hardware

Currently I'm not in the market for new hardware, but it is always nice to keep up-to-date with options. My most recent machine is a Macbook Pro 2020, the last generation that came with Intel CPU. So it should be good for some time to come.

One of the options …


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Trying blogging using vim

Posted on di 11 oktober 2022 in tools

So I'm up and running at my new project. This is my second round at this client and some things remained the same and others changed a bit.

One of the things that changed is that apparently no-one is using Intellij to edit code anymore. I even had to install …


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