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  • So Many Package Managers

    So Many Package Managers

    Something that took a bit of getting used to this week as I made my full-speed-ahead journey into Linux was understanding just how many package managers there are. I’ve been used to a two-horse race in terms of package management split roughly between “rpm distros” like RedHat or SUSE and “apt/deb distros” that are more…

  • Custom Port on Socket-based SSH

    I recently set up a new VM running Ubuntu 23.10. This version of Ubuntu comes with a change to the way that the ssh daemon is configured. I’ve always preferred to run SSH on a non-standard port on most of my machines. While the usefulness of this as a security measure is debatable, it’s also…