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removing the default kernel in CentOS 8 – remove elrepo kernel
Removing the default kernel aka the loaded kernel in CentOS 8 maybe challenging because the package is protected and cannot be removed by the yum…
Gentoo emerge GO lang failed – atomic_amd64x.go: too many errors
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Booting network installation from ipxe disk using IPMI KVM
There is a project for extended PXE Boot features https://ipxe.org/. This article is not for describing what this project may offer, but to show how…
gentoo network interface with hyphen in the name
Using the OpenRC (i.e. init system) and network names with special symbols like hyphen in the name may lead to errors of “command not found”…
xdg and autostart in Linux X server regardless the desktop environment
There is a tool xdg, which manages application integration with the different GUI Desktops in the Linux world. One of the features it offers is…
starting Hashicorp vault in server mode under docker container
Running Hashicorp vault in development mode is really easy, but starting the vault in server mode under a docker container may have some changes described…
Add cachecade SSD to an existing virtual drive in AVAGO MegaRAID with storcli64
Increase the IO performance of big storage consisting of hard drives with the CacheCade feature with MegaRAID hardware controllers. Here are the commands to ensure…
multiple random crashes of firefox in a docker container under Linux
Multiple random crashes in Firefox under Linux, when started in a docker container with errors of the kind: The chances to stop these multiple random…
Using xtrabackup to make fast MySQL backups – backup and restore
Percona provides a really interesting tool for MySQL backups! It works on a live running MySQL server by copying the MySQL binary files from the…