Comments by "" (@robbylock1741) on "Veronica Explains" channel.

  1. OMG a breath of fresh air! I'm a hard core Fedora user, but the best tool is always the one that works for you.
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  2. I'm a retired UNIX/Linux System Administrator (30+ years) and I find your content refreshing and more to the point very useful! Yeah there are newer and perhaps simpler commands, but knowing the basics is still very important. People would ask me why learn vi when there is nano for example. Because from AIX to (name your Linux distro) etc, you'll always have vi :) Thanks again for your hard work and keep keep doing what you're doing!
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  3. I'm a retired Unix/Linux Sys Admin. For stability and security, for me it's still Slackware, followed by Debian Stable for non-commercial use. For enterprise servers, for me the only choice has been RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) Oh and in case you are wondering, my current "daily driver" is Fedora's MATE-Compiz spin as my desktop. That said, it's JMHO and what is best for you is what works for you! That's the beauty of having all the various distros to choose from!
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  4. I'm a retired Unix/Linux System Admin. and I still find your videos useful! I had forgotten the column command! Time to re-write a few old bash scripts
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  5.  @kefka900  We ran Netware at one of the places I worked - yeah them were the days! And I still have a set of Red Hat floppies ... some place!
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  6.  @JohnGMeadows  I think I had the same book! And while I mostly run Fedora on a number of different laptops and desktops, I still run Slackware (now 15.0) as my file server/backup server (waves to Patrick!) on an older HP workstation that has a DAT tape drive - yeah my life is backed up to tape!
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  7. Thank you Veronica! I love newsboat and other terminal applications, currently I have a number of Linux based systems on my network, as of this post all based on Fedora 36 and use rsync and ssh to keep the configs and some selected documents updated from my "master" workstation. Keep up the great work!
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  8. Retired Linux sys admin here, in the past I would have said CentOS as RHEL is still the standard Linux at most businesses and enterprises where I have contacts. Now I'd say something along the line of Rocky Linux but that's just me - yeah I've never been a fan of Canonical and some of the moves they've made in the past.
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  9. I'm not a Fan of Ubuntu based distros, having been a daily user of Fedora for many years. But that's ME, this is the beauty of Open Source, find the distro that works best for you and stick with it. Thank you Veronica, for all your coverage of so many things! Keep up the fine work.
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  10. How does this effect Fedora? Isn't RHEL downstream from Fedora? What about the GPL? I thought the source had to be released. I'm glad you mentioned IBM as they OWN Red Hat, so can we put our hate/blame on IBM? It's all just so confusing
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  11. Back in the computer dark ages, the companies like Tandy, Apple, Commodore and even IBM, would actually HIRE people to write the manuals! People to translate "engineer and computer speak" to basic human English! At some point this stopped, mostly as a cost cutting measure as the "bean counters" a powerful group within Management, figured computers had been around long enough that "most people" knew enough not to need them. They were wrong! But like so many others in the Management elite, would never admit it. Thus it was left to the Engineers and Computer Programmers to produce documentation - something most were and still are ill equipped to do. And it's not just in the Computer Industry! Try reading documentation for a medical device!
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  12. Oh wow great times and memories! I became an expert setting up uucp on my first Slackware based PC! (waves to Patrick Volkerding)
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  13. I know Pop!_OS is your Linux of choice, but Fedora 36 is also available for the Pi4 (I use the MATE-Compiz spin) and it works very well.
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  14. One thing more about Debian! They still support 32 bit for those that need it, I have Debian MATE installed on an old Dell Inspiron MINI 10 and it runs flawlessly giving the old netbook new life.
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  15. rsync ROCKS!
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  16.  @arnox4554  or Rocky Linux which is based on RHEL would be good too. But most companies should be able to afford RHEL and it's business use that I recommend it. For home use . take your pick!
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  17.  @stephenlopiano1599  Most of the drivers are incorporated into the kernel and as the distros get their kernels from the same source, not so much an issue.
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  18.  @Hun_Uinaq  unlike Debian you can call Red Hat support at 3 am on a Sunday to help resolve a critical issue with a production and public facing server, yes it happened and they resolved the issue quickly. With Debian, you can goggle, cross your fingers and hope someone else had the same problem and posted a solution. Hey many times someone has! But if you're the CIO of a company and server downtime plays in to the corporate bottom line and your annual reviews, you might want that level of support.
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  19. I just sent a serial to parallel adapter to someone as I no longer have a printer with a "Centronics Interface" but I do miss my old Okidata printer.
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  20. Good to see you back! But more important great to hear you are over whatever it was.
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