Tag: ubuntu
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System Upgrade – Bash Script
Branching off of the Learning the Shell series of posts, I have started to explore the Writing Shell Scripts chapter of William Shotts’ The Linux Command Line. I am not completely unfamiliar with the concept of writing scripts to automate functions, yet most of my experience with scripting has been in the context of Windows…
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Linux – Learning the Shell (Part 2)
As mentioned in my previous post, I am working through the online version of The Linux Command Line by William Shotts. My goal is to internalize this material before I begin the LPIC-1 Study Guide. I completed sections 1 through 4 of the chapter Learning the Shell the other day. Today I picked up where…
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Troubleshooting Audio and Enhanced Session Mode in Ubuntu VM on Hyper-V
I had previously got Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS running as a VM in Hyper-V on a Windows 11 machine with Enhanced Session configured properly so that the session window for the Linux instance displayed in the correct resolution. However, there was no audio. Today, I attempted to troubleshoot the audio issue. Being unable to resolve it,…
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Ubuntu Virtual Machine Setup and Configuration in Hyper-V
I recently acquired a new laptop, replacing my old HP Pavilion dv4 from (yikes…) 15 years ago. My new machine is currently running Windows 11 Pro, but I also wanted to get Linux on it. I am using Hyper-V, the Windows native virtual machine manager. At least to start. My thought is that some shops…
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Adding Linux to the Stack
I’ve been wanting to revisit Linux. I used to run Slackware back in the late 90s (Praise Bob). Then I looked at CentOS about 10 years ago because it was based on Red Hat, was a distribution often recommended for an enterprise environment, I was thinking about going into network engineering, and so – along…