Installing SQLServer on OpenSUSE
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
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Mac partition on Ubuntu
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
Installing HHVM on Ubuntu
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
Using SSH authentication keys
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
Ubuntu in Windows Active Directory
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
Samba4 4.7.0 Setup OpenSUSE 42.3
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
Hello World in Rust: installing and running on Ubuntu
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
Installing Gogs on Ubuntu and Debian
Gogs is a self-hosted Git server written in Go: a single binary, no Ruby, no Node, no queue, no Redis. You drop the file on the server, point it at a database and you have a web interface similar to the … Read more
The history of ISPConfig
In 2005, two Germans from projektfarm GmbH, the same crew that maintained HowtoForge, published a panel to manage Linux hosting servers. Twenty-one years later, ISPConfig is still going strong. It continues under a BSD license, with no fee … Read more