Editing video on Ubuntu does not require hunting down an abandoned package or settling for an old version from the distribution repository. With Flatpak and Flathub, you can install current editors for full productions, quick cuts, and even videos with 3D animation in just a few commands. This selection brings together five popular options with packages on Flathub … Read more
Video summary: this article is a detailed summary of “How Linux Took Over the World: 35 Years in 35 Facts” from Jono Bacon, former Ubuntu community leader at Canonical. Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffl2DFHoZdY On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old Finnish student wrote a sentence that Jono Bacon … Read more
Every video you watched today — on YouTube, WhatsApp, or streaming TV — almost certainly passed through FFmpeg somewhere along the way. It is probably the most widely used and least-known software on the planet: an audio and video toolkit that became invisible internet infrastructure. This is its history … Read more
Anyone who has built an email server with Postfix + Dovecot knows the ritual: the classic PHP PostfixAdmin, a web server configured just for it, and an interface frozen in time. go-postfixadmin is my modern answer: a single Go binary with the entire Vue 3 frontend embedded — a dashboard … Read more
AI agents that live in your terminal have become a commodity — but an agent that learns from its own experience is still rare. Hermes Agent, from Nous Research, is exactly that: an open source agent (MIT, written in Python) with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from the tasks it … Read more
Migrate IMAP mailboxes with go-imapsync: installation, protected credentials, TLS, dry run, incremental copy and validation, with the limits of version 0.1.3.
OTRS started as Open Ticket Request System. Then it became Open Technology Real Services, and later just the four letters. What has not changed in twenty-five years is the core: Perl, queues, and email turning into tickets. In 2026, the commercial name belongs to EasyVista; the free code lives on in forks. Below is the timeline, without the folklore of … Read more
GLPI is the French acronym for Gestionnaire Libre de Parc Informatique — the free IT asset manager. It began in 2003 at the INDEPNET association, became a Teclib’ product in 2015, and on 1 October 2025 reached version 11. In June 2026, the stable community release is 11.0.8; version 10.0 still … Read more
Rust began as a hobby in 2006: Graydon Hoare, a Mozilla engineer, was annoyed by his building’s elevator failing because of C software. The name came from the fungus — “over-engineered for survival.” Mozilla sponsored it in 2009. The public 0.1 release came on January 20, 2012. Version 1.0 followed on May 15, 2015. … Read more
Roundcube began as a personal project in Switzerland in July 2005: an IMAP webmail application in PHP that used real Ajax, not a CGI form. The first stable release came on March 4, 2008. Version 1.0 followed on April 7, 2014. On May 10, 2026, version 1.7 arrived. On the 6 … Read more
