Linux
Install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
MediaWiki is the engine behind Wikipedia, and it remains the safest choice for any team that wants an…
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Valentine Cheronoh
Linux
Install Bind9 DNS Server on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Install BIND 9.20 on Ubuntu 26.04 as an authoritative DNS server with forward and reverse zones, verified from…
FreeBSD
SSH Key Authentication and Hardening on FreeBSD 15
FreeBSD 15.0 ships with OpenSSH 10.0p2, which supports post-quantum key exchange algorithms out of the box. The defaults…
FreeBSD
WireGuard VPN Server on FreeBSD 15
WireGuard on FreeBSD 15 is in-kernel. No ports module, no kmod dance. pkg install wireguard-tools, configure two files,…
Linux Tutorials
How To Set Up OpenVPN on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
You want a VPN that lives on your own box, terminates where you decide, and logs exactly what…
How To
Install Nginx on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Let’s Encrypt SSL
Nginx 1.28 on Ubuntu 26.04 ships with HTTP/3 compiled in, OpenSSL 3.5, and a dedicated UFW profile for…
Docker
Install Docker CE on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon)
Docker 29 shipped with native support for Ubuntu 26.04 on day one. No PPA hacks, no pinning to…
Networking
Network Bonding and Teaming on Rocky Linux / RHEL / Fedora
Network teaming and bonding combine multiple physical NICs into a single logical interface for redundancy or increased throughput.…
Dev
Configure JAVA_HOME on Rocky Linux / RHEL / Fedora
JAVA_HOME is the single environment variable that every Java tool checks first. Tomcat, Maven, Gradle, Elasticsearch, Jenkins, and…
How To
Install VirtIO Drivers on Windows Server 2025 / Windows 11
VirtIO drivers give Windows VMs running on KVM/QEMU direct (paravirtualized) access to disk, network, and memory devices on…
Desktop
Create Bootable USB on macOS and Linux
There are several tools for creating bootable USB drives from ISO images on macOS and Linux. The right…
Debian
Install Debian 13 (Trixie) Step by Step
Debian 13 “Trixie” is the latest stable release from the Debian project, shipping with kernel 6.12 LTS, Python…