CentOS

It is not enough to have an army living on the "Bleeding Edge" with Fedora, now RH wants the huge CentOS community to pre-test the next RHEL version in a "Rolling Release" with "CentOS Streams". I agree completely, instead of mis-using users to stabilize Fedora and RHEL they should keep Fedora and ...

It seems you need to install the package `dbus-devel`.

With respect, When these things happen and there is no apparent reason you then follow the money. RedHat and IBM are both commercial corporations and therefore always follow the money. Even when a company does charity stuff they do it to improve their public image in the hope that this way they wou...

mania wrote: ↑

2020/12/24 11:59:47

However, when CentOS Stream would be final?

CentOS Stream 8 is EOL on May 2024. (5 years after release of RHEL 8.0)

I find it rather amusing how IBM is bashed here for forcing RedHat into making the current decisions, and how IBM is been marked as the "bad ones". Who is the current president of IBM? Answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Whitehurst , the former CEO of Red Hat. Who has supported Linux since 199...

My crystal ball says that the VM was not installed from scratch but downloaded from https://www.osboxes.org/ .

Fedora has a different update strategy than CentOS:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Stable_r ... tes_vision
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fe ... es_Policy/

However, I need UEFI for gpt disks. No, you don't. Grub and Linux can handle GPT disks in Legacy mode as well. Note: If you want to boot from a GPT disk (using Legacy mode) you need an extra "bios boot" partition where grub gets installed. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS_boot_partition

lightman47 wrote: ↑

2020/10/14 19:30:25

I will however try your $() suggestion first.

Regarding $() vs. backticks: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/082

AFAIK the key to enter the BIOS/UEFI boot menu on an Acer computer is F12 during POST.