Criando pacotes .deb para Debian e derivados

Creating .deb packages for Debian and derivatives

Distributing software for Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, and derivatives without a .deb means leaving the job half done: no dependency management, clean updates, or removal without leftovers. The good news: creating a decent .deb package is easier than its reputation suggests. In this complete guide, you will go from a handcrafted package with dpkg-deb to a package … Read more

Nginx e várias versões de PHP no Debian e Ubuntu

Nginx and multiple PHP versions on Debian and Ubuntu

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

A história de Carlos Morimoto e o Kurumin Linux

The story of Carlos Morimoto and Kurumin Linux

In Brazil in the 2000s, putting Linux on the desktop still meant facing partitioning, LILO, and English-language forums. Carlos Eduardo Morimoto da Silva — the person behind Guia do Hardware — decided to do the opposite: a live CD in Portuguese, with KDE and “magic icons” that installed everything with one click, all fitting on a mini-CD … Read more

A história de Ian Murdock: o fundador do Debian

The story of Ian Murdock: Debian's founder

In August 1993, a 20-year-old Purdue student was frustrated with Softlanding Linux System. Broken packages, a fragile installation, a distribution treated as an afterthought. Instead of continuing to patch SLS, Ian Ashley Murdock (Konstanz, April 28, 1973) announced that he would start from scratch — openly, in the spirit of GNU … Read more

ISPConfig no Debian

ISPConfig on Debian

ISPConfig 3 is the free hosting control panel: websites, email, DNS, FTP, databases, and multiple servers from one panel. The lengthy Perfect Server installation has become an official script. A fresh VPS, an FQDN hostname, root — not a gist … Read more