wget downloads files from the terminal and — the feature that made it irreplaceable — resumes interrupted downloads. Anyone who has lost a 2 GB ISO near the end of the progress bar on a poor connection knows why that matters. It continues … Read more
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
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
/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
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
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
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
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
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
