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“Genghis Khan and his brother Don
\nCould not k<\/strong>eep o<\/strong>n k<\/strong>eepin’ o<\/strong>n”
\n(1971) “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”<\/a> – Bob Dylan<\/p>\n

(What is the plural of “Linux”?)<\/h4>\n

I guess it was trepidation from memories of upgrading to Fedora 19<\/a>. I kept checking out the subsequent releases, 20, then 21, then 22, then 23, but not doing much with them. “Enough is enough” I said to myself, and even put my toe in the water with the beta release of Fedora 24. Five months later, I wonder what was holding me back. Though much has changed between 19 and 24, getting going with 24 really didn’t seem that hard.<\/p>\n

Adjusting to dnf<\/a> instead of yum, especially since dnf eschews an equivalent of –skip-broken, took some reworking of FedoraInstall.sh (a script I’ve maintained for myself since Fedora 14(?)) and scripts it depends on, but wasn’t that big a deal. Otherwise, it is hard to remember anything old that was that big a deal.<\/p>\n

One of the things I’d been wanting to try are certificates from\u00a0LetsEncrypt.org<\/a>. So far it has been more trouble that I hoped. First it seemed I needed to enable DNSSEC<\/a>, so I figured out how to do that. Then I started trying to use certbot<\/a>\u00a0to actually get certificates. certbot seemed to not be really ready, at least for Apache & Fedora, but after trudging along I figured out how to modify httpd.conf to make progress. But not enough progress. I set things aside, hoping that certbot really would update itself and start working better, also waiting for Firefox 50 and default<\/a> support for LetsEncrypt. “Some day soon”, either or both of those things will happen or I will force myself to forge ahead, anyway.<\/p>\n

I can’t say that recent Fedora experience has been fun, but it has been OK. All the apparent attempts at reaching a broader audience make it seem less like “real UNIX” — how can gcc\/vi(m)\/emacs be optional packages?<\/p>\n

Early last year I first became aware of Arch Linux<\/a>, helping a friend get through his “UNIX II” course. Though bare bones without installing packages, Arch was\/is refreshing in its simplicity. Dealing with Arch also made me more appreciative of the “kitchen sink” distributions. If I was first getting started with Linux, I might choose Arch. Then again, if I had chosen Debian instead of Red Hat to get started 20 years ago, I might now be using Ubuntu instead of Fedora.<\/p>\n

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