Codename: Ubuntu Rusty

Just call me Rusty -  with regards to Ubuntu anyway.  Man!  I can't remember how to set the IP in the old Ubuntu.  Now, 18.04 has changed yet again.  I'm a RHELish* user when I'm not using Slackware for my own personal desktop.  Don't get me wrong - Ubuntu is a fine desktop.  I used it from '04 to '09 parting ways when the Unity desktop came into play.  I did enjoy Xubuntu and then later Lubuntu but found my 5+ years of 'buntu had weakened my RHELish skills much in the way the last (nearly 10) years has mu 'buntu skills SO I switched back.  Actually, I always load Ubuntu for other people (non-Unix folks) who want to salvage an old laptop or old desktop that ran Windows 7 or something.  I've had some success stories there.  But I digress.  

This is just a place to save these commands so I don't have to hunt them up YET AGAIN.  

Changing an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server's name

This is pretty easy.  

$ sudo hostnamectl set-hostname linuxconfig

This note is not (currently) for me: Check for the existence of /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg and change preserve_hostname: false to preserve_hostname: true

Changing the static IP of an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server

This is no longer in the /etc/network/interfaces.  Instead look in /etc/netplan (sudo -s first or it will not auto-complete leading me to believe it didn't exist).  The file is 50-cloud-init.yaml.

That is all I have to say since this note is mainly for me.  Hopefully I'll know what else to do when I need this information again. 


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*RHELish (pronounced "relish") is the term I coined for Red Hat -like based systems such as (of course) Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Scientific Linux and Oracle Linux. 

New Linux

I've gotten spoiled by Ubuntu.  I think it's a great desktop OS (if you're into Linux).  I was recently using Fedora 11 as a Desktop at home (off of a bootable USBish device).  It's okay - I prefer it for server apps that are designed for Fedora.  I also loaded CentOS in a zone on  Solaris.  It's okay too.  Still - Ubuntu makes a lot of things too easy to pass up.  I've got Karmic Koala at home.  It's fine.  Can't see any difference between that and the 9.04 (whatever fuzzy animal that was named after - Feisty Fawn?)

Anyway, this guy was beating it up.  His reasons seem silly.  He's probably just trying to get some hits on his web site.

But I ran across this: Hadn't seen Lubuntu before (but noticed Knoppix's been using that desktop for a while). (I'm on Linux-Mag's mailing list since I *had* to see the answer to a forum there the other day).

So anyway, lot's of fanfare about Karmic this week.  This guy mentions ArchLinux as an easier alternative to Gentoo.  I wondered if anyone had tried it.  Then I remembered we had this mailing
list... but it bounced.  Maybe we don't have a mailing list anymore...