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
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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
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
500 Linux commands: task-based guide and PDF
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
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
Website Hosting with ISPConfig
Setting up hosting on Linux is still the same craft: DNS, websites, email, SSL, backups. What changed is the shortcut. The official autoinstaller deploys Apache or Nginx, MariaDB, Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd, and the panel on port 8080. You no longer … Read more