Thoughts on technology, infrastructure, and AI
A practical enterprise-level comparison of Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux in 2026, focused on the things that matter when moving from an Ubuntu estate to a Red Hat one: management tooling, package lifecycle, services, SELinux, Ansible, and automated installs.
My early notes from installing Home Assistant in a Proxmox LXC, discovering solar and media devices, adding AirTouch air conditioning, and thinking about where the smart home stack goes next.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is not trying to turn the desktop into a chatbot. It is making it easier to run AI tools locally, see what hardware is being used, and choose which models belong on your machine.
My hands-on evaluation of Pangolin Community Edition as a possible production access layer for a small multi-team environment, including Enterprise Edition features and comparisons with Headscale, Tailscale, and Twingate.
Part 8 of an 8-part series on implementing the Essential Eight on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, covering regular backups with restic, snapshots, immutable storage, and Linux-first recovery design.