Waking the Wily Werewolf

I’m not sure how I let late October pass by without upgrading my Linux server! Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) was released back on October 22 and somehow (still not sure how) I completely missed it. So today I did the first ‘do-release-upgrade’ on the NUC (since I clean installed Vivid back in July). This one was pretty smooth, …

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Intel NUCs

Since getting my standing desk at home last last year I’ve been thinking about getting a new, smaller PC that would fit on top of my desk instead of under it (like my old Dell Inspiron from 2008), eliminating cable clutter.  With the upcoming release of Windows 10 I had been thinking more about this and also replacing …

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Switching to the Saucy Salamander

Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) was released this past Thursday. Normally I jump on the upgrade right away, but I was busy this week and finally got around to it over the weekend. As with my past few upgrades, it was mostly a non-event: ‘do-release-upgrade -d’ from the command-line, answer a few prompts, and wait. I said mostly …

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Release of the Raring Ringtail

Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) was officially released today, although I was able to download and upgrade my server from Quantal last night, avoiding the rush. Upgrading to the latest Ubuntu server release is really becoming a non-event for me, which is great news especially since support for non-LTS releases has been cut to 9 months. Starting …

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Quest for the Quantal Quetzal

My server upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) to the newly released 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) tonight was one of the smoothest for me in recent memory. The only problem I had this time around was an issue with ZoneMinder due to some “non-standard” symlinks I was using. Once I corrected those, the package upgraded without …

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