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Lars Olafsen

Technical Operations Manager at Redpill Linpro

Lars has been in the IT business for around two decades now, working initially both as a developer and systems administrator. He's been with Redpill Linpro for 9 years, and in addition to being one of our operations managers, he still gets the time to solder together pieces of code.

EL9's grubby sorting

So I had this el9 machine that had been sitting quietly waiting for updates for a bit too long. Blinded by courage, I went in and did a

dnf update, rebooted, and lo and behold, it worked without a hitch afterwards. Except just one small one: It did not automatically boot the newest kernel. I tried the standard things. Look at /etc/default/grub, look at the output of various grubby commands. To no avail. It simply would ... [continue reading]

From a Luddite to a Vibe-Coder

Published on March 20, 2026