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
What is DNS DNS stands for Domain Name System (Sistema de Nomes e Domínios in Portuguese), which converts the website domain names people type into web browsers into IP numbers. … Read more
Integrating an Ubuntu machine into a Windows Active Directory domain requires, in short: pointing the client’s DNS to the domain controller, setting a consistent hostname in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts, and having the domain name and an account with … Read more
Samba 4 is still the free AD implementation: LDAP, Kerberos, DNS, and SYSVOL in the same process. In 2017, this post provisioned 4.7.0 on Leap 42.3. In 2026, the official wiki and Leap 15.6 speak the same language — samba-tool — … Read more
Everyone starts with Hello, world! This post uses that three-line program as an excuse to install Rust properly on Ubuntu, understand what cargo does, and leave with a project that compiles — in about ten minutes. Why Rust, in two sentences Rust delivers C performance … Read more
Gogs is a self-hosted Git server written in Go: one binary, no Ruby, no Node, no queue, no Redis. Put the file on the server, point it at a database, and you have an interface similar to GitHub’s … Read more
Note (2026): originally published on 2017, this guide has been revised for current reference; the archive PDF remains identified as historical material. You don't need to memorize hundreds of commands: you need to recognize the task, find the tool, and check what … Read more
