• Linux Crash Course – nano (command-line text editor)

    When you’re working with Linux servers, you may or may not always have access to a GUI, which is why it’s important to learn at least one command-line text editor. In this video, we’ll explore the core fundamentals of nano. nano is a text editor that’s among the easiest to learn.

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  • Enterprise Linux Security Episode 7 – ELevate

    Remaining on legacy Linux distributions can lead to additional security risks as time goes on, and migrating to a newer and better supported distribution can be a very difficult endeavor for most administrators. In this episode, Jay and Joao are joined by Jack from AlmaLinux, and we talk about ELevate – a tool that can be used to migrate from a distribution in the Enterprise Linux family to another Enterprise Linux distribution. This helps alleviate some of the burden of distro migration, and as a community project it’s also a great project to get started with contributing to an open-source project.

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  • Deploying Ubuntu Instances with MAAS

    MAAS (Metal as a Service) gives you the ability to provision physical and virtual servers via an easy to use web console. You can use MAAS to deploy Ubuntu with ease, and it even supports PXE boot in order to provide you with a full deployment solution. In this video, you’ll get an overview of MAAS and how to set it up.

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  • Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 16 – High Availability

    In the final episode of LearnLinuxTV’s Proxmox VE tutorial series, we explore the concept of high availability. This will ensure that our most important virtual machines are always running, even if one of the nodes in our cluster stops responding.

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  • Fedora 35 – Full Review

    Fedora 35 was released on November 2nd of 2021, and brings with it the latest GNOME experience and various tweaks and improvements. Could this be the best GNOME desktop of 2021 so far? In this review, we’ll take a look at it and see how it stacks up.

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  • The Homelab Show Episode 32 – Linux Patch Management

    In episode 32 of The Homelab Show, Tom & Jay discuss Patch Management, including (but not limited to) unattended upgrades, live patching, and more!

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  • Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 15 – Clustering

    Setting up a Proxmox VE cluster enables you to benefit from multiple servers to share load between, and also gives you access to live migration. In this video, we’ll create our very own cluster and add two additional Proxmox VE servers.

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  • Windows 11 Reviewed (by a Linux Guy)

    With Windows 11 having been recently released, I figured it would be fun to review it from a Linux-users point of view. In this video, I’ll give you my overall thoughts about Microsoft’s latest OS, and I’ll even show a Linux app running on it by the end.

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  • Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 14 – Shared Storage

    Shared storage enables you to set up a single storage repository, and provide access to that repository from multiple servers. If you eventually set up a Proxmox cluster, then shared storage gives you even more flexibility. In this video, you’ll see the process of setting up NFS shares in a NAS (TrueNAS used as an example) and then adding those shares to Proxmox VE.

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  • AlmaLinux ELevate – ELevate your distro to 8.x

    AlmaLinux ELevate is a brand-new tool that makes it easy to move from RHEL 7.x and its derivatives, to any version 8.x related distribution of your choice (AlmaLinux, CentOS, Rocky Linux and etc). This tool is being developed with the open-source mindset at its core, and in this video, Jay chats with Jack from AlmaLinux about this awesome project.

    Check out the ELevate project here.

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  • How to Dual-Boot Windows 11 & Ubuntu

    With Windows 11 having been recently released, I decided to refresh my dual-boot video for Ubuntu. In this video, I’ll go over the process of setting up a dual-boot between Windows 11 and Ubuntu, so that way by the end of the video you’ll have both platforms set up and ready to go.

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  • Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 13 – Networking

    Setting up a separate network for your virtual machines is a great idea, especially since that allows you to segregate your management network. In class 13 of LearnLinuxTV’s Proxmox series, we’ll set up a new network and you’ll see how to set up your virtual machines to use it.

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