Ubuntu

While public cloud platforms like GitHub and GitLab are ubiquitous, many enterprise environments, air-gapped networks, and privacy-conscious organizations require keeping their source code and automation scripts entirely on-premises. Storing internal credentials, proprietary PowerShell modules, and infrastructure configurations within your local LAN ensures compliance, eliminates third-party cloud outages, and gives administrators complete sovereignty over their data. However, setting up a bare Git server with plain SSH shared folders lacks the collaborative features teams expect: interactive code browsing, visual diff comparisons, issue tracking, organization teams, branch protection, and Pull Request reviews. ...

I wanted to move an existing WSL installation from Ubuntu 24.04 to Ubuntu 26.04 without creating a second distro and manually copying everything across. The important requirement was to keep the existing contents: home directories, installed packages, shell configuration, SSH keys, WSL settings, scripts, and project files. The approach in this post is an in-place release upgrade. It runs the Ubuntu release upgrade inside the existing Ubuntu-24.04 WSL instance. It is different from installing a new Ubuntu distro and importing files into it. ...