In July 2002, a Finnish developer who had already written irssi released an IMAP server designed to be neither Courier nor UW. He called it Dovecot — a shelter for pigeons. Five years later, on April 13, 2007, version 1.0.0 arrived. Timo Sirainen noted: “almost five years, but it is ready.” Twenty-four … Read more
In 1997, Wietse Venema at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center began writing an MTA so he would not have to live with Sendmail. On December 14, 1998, the code was released. It was called VMailer, then IBM Secure Mailer, then Postfix — “post” for mail, “fix” for repair. Twenty-eight years later, Postfix … Read more
On June 6, 2014, Joe Beda made the first public commit of what would become Kubernetes: 250 files and 47,501 lines of Go, Bash, and Markdown. Four days later, Eric Brewer announced the project at DockerCon. A year later, on July 21, 2015, version 1.0 arrived — and Google announced that … 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
XCP was the free XenServer ISO. Citrix opened up the product in 2013, and XCP died on the wiki. In 2017, the Free edition lost live storage, dynamic memory, and GPU features. Olivier Lambert of Vates launched a Kickstarter, called it XCP-ng — next generation — and on March 31, 2018, released 7.4. The … Read more
XenServer is the product. Xen is the hypervisor. The confusion has lasted nineteen years: XenSource packages Cambridge’s work, Citrix buys it for half a billion, renames it Citrix Hypervisor, private equity restores the name, and in July 2026 XenServer 9 becomes “Citrix” again and supports every kind of workload — not just desktops. … Read more
In 2003, a hypervisor emerged from Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory and changed how servers were divided up. Xen — type 1, GPLv2, paravirtualization — became the foundation of Amazon EC2, Rackspace, and later Qubes OS. In 2026, Xen Project 4.21 is still the core of XenServer, XCP-ng, and a … Read more
Gitea is the self-hosted forge in Go: Git, PR, issues, registry, and CI/CD in a single binary. Updated guide for Gitea 28.0.0 — the version that dropped the “1.” prefix —, with Docker Compose and MariaDB, 4.1 runner, tea CLI, and the upgrade roadmap from 1.27.
In 1994, a 30-year-old vice president at D.E. Shaw read that the web was growing 2,300% a year, made a list of 20 products, and chose books. He quit his job, crossed the country in a Chevy Blazer 88, and built a website in a Bellevue garage with a desk made from a door. Thirty-two years later, … Read more
VRAM determines the model. Dense Qwen 27B–32B, quantized Llama 70B, Mixtral 8×7B — these require 32 to 64 GB, not the 24 GB of a 4090. Engineer Donato Capitella, with Bargain Hardware, built a refurbished Supermicro with four data center GPUs (64 GB total) for around £2,000 and benchmarked V100, P100 … Read more
