System Administrators keep your computers computing, your printers printing, your servers serving – all while keeping critical systems online. You may not always see them in action, but behind the scenes they route communications, deploy critical servers, and secure protected information. On System Administrator Appreciation Day, we recognize all of those brilliant individuals that manage the world’s infrastructure.

Learn Linux TV would like to thank TuxCare for sponsoring this production! As part of this event, they are partnering with ADMIN Magazine to offer a free PDF filled with useful tips and tricks for the busy SysAdmin. Click the image to download – it’s only available for a limited time.

Thanks to 2GuysTek, Jeff Geerling, and Techno Tim for joining the discussion!

The recent news about Red Hat is certainly taking the industry by storm right now, and it even led to me canceling a video that was already recorded. The video in question was a follow-up to my Debian 12 “Bookworm” review, in which I revealed that I was switching to Debian (which also means that Learn Linux TV is doing the same). In that video, I also promised a follow-up where I would explain why that decision was made. In my recent video response to Red Hat’s toxicity, I attempted to explain why in that video but that portion of the video was overshadowed by the, well, shadow that Red Hat is casting over Linux and open-source. So in this article, what I’m going to do is outline specifically why I moved away from Ubuntu, and I’ll do so while making sure that this doesn’t become another Red Hat article. Let’s talk about Ubuntu.