Migrating from CentOS 6 to Ubuntu 18.04 questions

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:23:53 +1000 kauer at biplane.com.au, "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 09:53 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> > Right now my main desktop machine on my home LAN is running CentOS 6,
> > which is nearing its EOL, so I need to think about upgrading to
> > something else.
> > 
> > One option is CentOS 7 and another option would be Ubuntu 18.04.
> 
> Why not CentOS8? That's the current version.
> 
> >  One of the major reasons I have been using CentOS on my home LAN is
> > that CentOS can be installed entirely from local media
> 
> True, but for updates you will still need Internet access. Depends how
> current your install medium is.

I've been hand carrying a removable disk that holds a local mirror rsynced
from a local server (at the local library) which maintains a local mirror. The
library has decent Internet access and its server rsync's / debmirror's from
Internet repo mirrors.  This works for updates, but not for cold installs 
on the bare metal (chicken and egg).

> 
> > DHCP service (ISC DHCP server)
> > BIND 9 (local DNS server)
> > KVM/QEMU (eg "native" Linux virtualization)
> > libvirt and libvirt-client (specificly, CLI tools for dealing with
> > VMs and the 
> > Â Â Â Â Â ability to use LVM volumes as disks for VMs)
> 
> I've had all that working on 16.04, I doubt it's gone backwards.
> 
> RedHat seems to have deprecated virt-manager, make of that what you
> will.

Yeah, next they will be deprecating the keyboard...

> 
> Regards, K.
> 

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