If you’re on the latest Fedora release, you’re already running lots of modern packages. However, there are those times when you may want to help with testing efforts or try out a new feature in a newer package. Most of my systems have the updates-testing repository enabled in one way or another. This repository contains packages that package maintainers have submitted to become the next stable package in Fedora. For example, if there is a bug fix for nginx, the package maintainer submits the changes and publish a release.

Switching to systemd-networkd for managing your networking interfaces makes things quite a bit simpler over standard networking scripts or NetworkManager. Aside from being easier to configure, it uses fewer resources on your system, which can be handy for smaller virtual machines or containers. Managing tunnels between interfaces is also easier with systemd-networkd. This post will show you how to set up a GRE tunnel between two hosts running systemd-networkd.

Woot suckered me into buying a 4K display at a fairly decent price and now I have a Samsung U28D590D sitting on my desk at home. I ordered a mini-DisplayPort to DisplayPort from Amazon and it arrived just before the monitor hit my doorstep. It’s time to enter the world of 4K displays. The unboxing of the monitor was fairly uneventful and it powered up after small amount of assembly. I plugged my mini-DP to DP cable into the monitor and then into my X1 Carbon 3rd gen.

I picked up a copy of Robert Love’s book, Linux Kernel Development, earlier this year and I’ve worked my way through it over the past several weeks. A few people recommended the book to me on Twitter and I’m so glad they did. This book totally changed how I look at a system running Linux. You must be this tall to ride this ride I’ve never had formal education in computer science or software development in the past.

When you upgrade packages on Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora systems, the newer package replaces the older package. That means that files managed by RPM from the old package are removed and replaced with files from the newer package. There’s one exception here: kernel packages. Upgrading a kernel package with yum and dnf leaves the older kernel package on the system just in case you need it again. This is handy if the new kernel introduces a bug on your system or if you need to work through a compile of a custom kernel module.