In Brazil in the 2000s, putting Linux on the desktop still meant facing partitioning, LILO, and English-language forums. Carlos Eduardo Morimoto da Silva — the person behind Guia do Hardware — decided to do the opposite: a live CD in Portuguese, with KDE and “magic icons” that installed everything with one click, all fitting on a mini-CD … Read more
On April 29, 2005, two Linux developers in Vienna, Dietmar and Martin Maurer, released Proxmox Mail Gateway and registered the GmbH. Three years later came Virtual Environment: OpenVZ + KVM, a browser, Debian. In 2026, Proxmox VE 9.2 (May 21) runs kernel 7.0, QEMU 11, and LXC 7 … Read more
In August 1993, a 20-year-old Purdue student was frustrated with Softlanding Linux System. Broken packages, a fragile installation, a distribution treated as an afterthought. Instead of continuing to patch SLS, Ian Ashley Murdock (Konstanz, April 28, 1973) announced that he would start from scratch — openly, in the spirit of GNU … Read more
The tax lion still lives on Linux. The Brazilian Federal Revenue Service’s tax return program (PGD) runs on x86_64 with the official installer. You can also file through e-CAC without downloading anything, or through the Receita Federal app. This post is the path … Read more
Redmine is a free project manager and bug tracker in Ruby on Rails, with Gantt charts, a calendar, wiki, forum, time tracking, and repository integration (Git, Subversion, Mercurial, and others). It has existed since 2006, never became SaaS, and … Read more
In 2005, two Germans from projektfarm GmbH, the same crew that maintained HowtoForge, published a panel to manage Linux hosting servers. Twenty-one years later, ISPConfig is still going strong. It continues under a BSD license, with no fee … Read more
