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BIND vs Dnsmasq vs PowerDNS vs Unbound [Benchmark]
Picking a DNS server for your infrastructure comes down to what you actually need it to do. A…
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FreeBSD
Upgrade FreeBSD 14 to FreeBSD 15 with freebsd-update
FreeBSD 15.0 brings significant improvements including quantum-resistant cryptography, OpenZFS 2.4, and the new pkgbase system. If you’re running…
FreeBSD
Install FreeBSD 15.0 on KVM / Proxmox with ZFS and Post-Install Setup
FreeBSD 15.0 landed on December 2, 2025, and it is the most significant release in years. The headline…
FreeBSD
FreeBSD Jails with VNET Networking on FreeBSD 15
FreeBSD jails have been the standard for OS-level isolation since FreeBSD 4.0, years before Linux containers existed. With…
AlmaLinux
Install Nagios Core on Rocky Linux 10 / AlmaLinux 10
Nagios has been the backbone of infrastructure monitoring for over two decades, and it still earns its place…
Debian
Install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 24.04 / Debian 13
MediaWiki powers Wikipedia and thousands of internal knowledge bases. It runs on PHP and MySQL/MariaDB, which means a…
Desktop
Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu 24.04 / 22.04
Google Chrome is the most widely used web browser, and installing it on Ubuntu takes about 30 seconds.…
FreeBSD
FreeBSD 15.0 New Features: pkgbase, Post-Quantum Crypto, ZFS 2.4
FreeBSD 15.0 landed on December 2, 2025, and it changes how you manage the entire operating system. The…
Debian
Run Kubernetes on Debian 13 / 12 with Minikube
You need a local Kubernetes cluster for testing but don’t want to spin up a full multi-node setup.…
Databases
Install PostgreSQL 17 on RHEL 10 / Rocky Linux 10 / AlmaLinux 10
Rocky Linux 10 and RHEL 10 ship with PostgreSQL 16 in the base AppStream, but the PGDG (PostgreSQL…
AI
Run DeepSeek R1 Locally with Ollama on Linux
DeepSeek R1 does something most open-source models skip: it shows its reasoning. When you ask it a question,…
Debian
Install Node.js on Debian 13 / 12
Debian 13 (Trixie) ships Node.js 20 in its default repositories, which is fine for many use cases. But…