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Local Ubuntu APT repo mirror on CentOS 7 v2

I've done this using apt-mirror already, but it turns out, apt-mirror has a few caveats: it's unmaintained it requires debootstrap + chroot On top of that, I've been having issues…

noobient 2019-07-09No Comments

Ubuntu 18.04 UEFI Network Installer

For whatever reason, Canonical thinks this decade-old standard is still optional. Well guess what, it's not. Many modern systems don't even have CSM. At all. The workaround is extremely elegant,…

noobient 2019-06-25No Comments

Local Ubuntu APT repo mirror on CentOS 7

Note: make sure to check out the revised APT repo mirror guide! So you might want to have a local mirror for your Ubuntu workstations, but you don't want to…

noobient 2019-06-21No Comments

Killing Floor 2 on Ubuntu Linux 18.04

Yes, it does work. The new Steam Play was announced quite some time ago, so now you don't need to participate in any beta. Here's how it works. If you…

noobient 2019-05-06No Comments

Edimax EN-9320TX-E 10GbE Ethernet Card on Ubuntu and Fedora Linux

Unlike the Asus XG-C100C, the Edimax EN-9320TX-E 10G Ethernet card won’t work OOTB, because you need some firmware magic to make it work. So first off, some prerequisites: yum install…

noobient 2018-08-10No Comments

Ubuntu 17.10 corrupts your BIOS

First they only destroyed your disks, then they went hand in hand with their wonderful Debian upstream onto rendering SSL useless without anyone noticing for years (manyeyeballs, aka the power…

noobient 2017-12-20No Comments

AD integration changes in Ubuntu 16.04

Update: please refer to Noobuntu – Enterprise Ubuntu development environment with Active Directory integration for up-to-date information. I’ve written an extensive tutorial about integrating Ubuntu 15.10 with Active Directory. Today…

noobient 2016-04-20No Comments