Migrating from CentOS 6 to Ubuntu 18.04 questions

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:00:26 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 4:26 PM Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> 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.
> 
> Why 18.04 and not 20.04?

Rather be conservitive.

> 
> 
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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 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.
> 
> It's not deprecated in CentOS (I no longer have any RHEL boxes to
> check there). It's available in the CentOS AppStream repo. It seems to
> me that the preferred option is to use Cockpit (system administration
> via a web interface) to install a VM via the GUI.
> 

Arg. 


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