Three Ubuntu nodes, one Galera, SST with mariabackup. It is not asynchronous replication: every node accepts writes and the majority decides who stays up. Two nodes are not enough — if one goes down, the other is left alone, without a majority. Below is the three-node cluster from the galera_new_cluster package, on Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04, with backup a … Read more
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
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
Visual Studio Code is the world’s most widely used editor, runs well on Linux, and is free. This guide shows how to install it so it stays up to date automatically, what to do right afterward, and what the difference is … Read more
Want to try Swift on Linux without starting a huge project? Let's install the language using the official method from swift.org, run a Hello World, generate a binary, and put together a small terminal tool with arguments. The goal is to leave … Read more
This is the shortest path from a clean Ubuntu installation to your first running Go program. It takes about ten minutes, and by the end you will have a single binary that runs on any Linux machine — no interpreter, no … Read more
The tax lion still lives on Linux. The Brazilian Federal Revenue Service’s tax return program (PGD) runs on x86_64 with the official installer. You can also file through e-CAC without downloading anything, or through the Receita Federal app. This post is the path … Read more
Tomcat remains the most widely used servlet container on Linux servers. This how-to installs the current release from Apache’s official tarball, with a dedicated user and systemd unit — on Ubuntu 24.04/22.04 and equivalent Debian releases. Which version … Read more
Developer defends Mir: “Why Mir” Canonical developer Alan Griffiths has been blogging extensively about the Mir server over the past few days. He has been trying to get the community to support Mir and potentially even add client support … Read more
