I wanted to upgrade one of my servers from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8 [https://www.centos.org/]. The following are the steps I followed : Check the kernel version Before we start the upgrade process, let us see the kernel version. # uname -a Linux centostest 3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_…
I have been maintaining dgplug [https://dgplug.org/] infrastructure for sometime now. We have a blogging platform, blogs.dgplug.org [https://blogs.dgplug.org] for our community. We were planning to migrate it to the latest version of Operating System and the blogging software, but my post covid symptoms hindered…
I was trying to install bat [https://github.com/sharkdp/bat], from source, the clone of cat command with syntax highlighting and Git integration, in a CentOS [https://www.centos.org/] machine, via cargo, Rust package installer. But it gave me this error: error: linker `cc` not found | = note: No…
To get the Let’s Encrypt [https://letsencrypt.org/] certificate in standalone mode, certbot [https://certbot.eff.org/] needs port 80 to be available, leading to stop the webserver each time before we start the renewal process. The other way of getting and subsequently renewing the certificate is through webroot…
Thunderbird [https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/] is the free and open source email client by Mozilla Foundation [https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/]. I have been using it for some years now. Till now the Thunderbird users had to use an extension Enigmail [https://enigmail.net/index.php/en/] to use…
Mailvelope [https://www.mailvelope.com/] is an extension on web browsers to send end to end encrypted emails. This is a good option available to the users to send end to end encrypted without changing the email service they use. It is licensed under AGPL v3 [https://www.gnu.org/…
PyLadies India embarked its journey 20th June 2020 marked a new beginning for PyLadies in India. We had our first meetup. I started my journey with PyLadies in 2016 as an organizer of PyLadies Pune [http://anweshadas.in/coming-out-of-hibernation-pyladies-pune-chapter/]. It began with a personal itch of the lawyer who wanted…
When I was doing a licensing survey in the Fedora ecosystem. I asked a few developers, "What is license according to them?" I got some interesting answers: "I do not care about the license; it bores me." - a super senior developer says this. (not a…