Debian 12 ships PHP 8.2. Ubuntu 24.04 ships 8.3. Debian 13, 8.4. Ubuntu 26.04, 8.5. A real host needs all three at once: the old WordPress site, the new Laravel application, and the cron CLI. The distribution repository does not allow it. Ondřej Surý’s does. nginx comes from nginx.org — stable, pinned, without mixing … Read more
Synacor no longer provides free FOSS binaries. Anyone who wants Zimbra 10.1 on Ubuntu downloads a community tarball: maldua/zimbra-foss or bTactic builds. Below: a clean installation on Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 LTS, DNS, install.sh, and the first zmcontrol status. This is not an official Synacor build; it is the tarball the forum uses when the … Read more
Vibe coding in the CLI is fast until the agent forgets what you agreed on yesterday, rereads the entire repository with grep, and clicks the cookie banner instead of Save. Four open source tools — agent-browser, OpenSpec, codebase-memory-mcp, and ai-memory — fill precisely those gaps: the browser, the agreement before the code, … 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
Zimbra is the Ajax groupware platform that wanted to be Exchange for Linux. It began as LiquidSys in 2003, became Zimbra Inc. on July 26, 2005, and took its name from the Talking Heads song I Zimbra. In September 2007, Yahoo bought it for US$ 350 million. Then came VMware, Telligent, and Synacor. On the 31 … 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
Anyone still saying “.NET Core 10” is not wrong about its history — the Core name ended at 3.1. Since version 5, the platform has simply been called .NET. Version 10 came out on November 11, 2025, is LTS until November 14, 2028, and in September 2026 the stable SDK is 10.0.400 … Read more
On October 24, 2015, GruPy-SP (with InteropMIX) heard Fabio Franco Costa discuss data science without slides promising “you will be a scientist in three months.” The argument fits in one sentence: data science is a method for thinking about problems, not a stack. The video is on the LinuxPro channel. Below is the talk’s message — … Read more
Go began on a Google whiteboard on September 21, 2007, because C++ took too long to compile. In November 2025, the language marked 16 years of open source development. In September 2026, the stable release is 1.27.1. Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, the go you install on Linux — all of it descends … Read more
On February 4, 2004, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg launched TheFacebook.com from a room in Harvard’s Kirkland House. Eduardo Luiz Saverin, a Brazilian from São Paulo, contributed the first few thousand dollars and became CFO. Twenty-two years later, Meta pays US$ 17 billion to 47 US states … Read more
