Joining Ubuntu to Active Directory lets a Linux desktop or server authenticate with the same Windows account, without a local user on each machine. The domain remains on-premises AD DS (or Entra Domain … Read more
/etc/hosts is the list of names your machine resolves on its own without asking anyone else. A line there takes precedence over the entire internet’s DNS — making it an excellent tool for development and testing, … 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
OpenCms is a web content management system written in Java, free under the LGPL license and maintained by Germany’s Alkacon Software. It is not the CMS you install on R$ 20 shared hosting — it is what businesses and public agencies … Read more
In this post, I will try to cover the main reasons that, in my view, lead new users to become disappointed with the penguin. Original article from the Oficina do Tux blog. Performance and compatibility This point is mainly for users of … Read more
In 2017, Microsoft had just released SQL Server on Linux. The shortcut at the time was to paste the SLES 12 .repo into Leap 42.2 and run setup. Nine years later, the engine is the same — … Read more
On April 5, 2017, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, published an announcement ending one of the biggest bets in the distribution’s history: Canonical would abandon Unity8 and its convergence strategy (the same system … Read more
SSH passwords are still vulnerable to brute force. A key pair — the public key on the server, the private key on your machine, protected by a passphrase — is how you log in in 2026. OpenSSH on Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 already generates Ed25519 when you run ssh-keygen … Read more
In 2017, HHVM was the performance shortcut: Facebook’s JIT, WordPress and Laravel running faster than Ubuntu’s PHP 5.6/7.0. Nine years later, Zend Engine won — PHP 7, then 8, a proper OPcache, … Read more
Connected a Mac HDD/SSD to Ubuntu and Nautilus did not open anything? In 2017, the answer was hfsprogs. That still applies to HFS+. For Macs from 2018 onward, the volume is almost always APFS — and the kernel … Read more
