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Frank on Oct 12, 2024WebbrowserWebserverWeb Development

Web server tuning: display WebP images directly in the browser

When switching to WebP images, I encountered a little unexpected behaviour: When linked directly, most browsers immediately start downloading WebP images instead of displaying them ...

Linuxero on May 04, 2024Linux NetworkVPNFirewall

Wireguard with systemd and nftables

Hi; I am trying to configure Wireguard VPN using systemd.networkd on a Server with NFTables as a firewall. These are the files of my configuration: ...

Frank on Apr 28, 2024Ubuntu

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat available

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, codenamed "Noble Numbat", is the latest long-term supported version of Ubuntu and is available for download from. Some of the key features ...

AlexWisha on Apr 17, 2024Linux NetworkUbuntuServer

How to set up and configure a Linux GRE tunnel

This guide will walk through the setup and configuration of a GRE tunnel between two Linux hosts. The two Linux hosts are running Ubuntu 22.04 ...

AQk5Zd on Dec 09, 2023LinuxRedHat, Fedora, CentOS

Synchronize CentOS servers

How can I run two CentOS servers so that they mirror each other? Data can be exchanged via SSH. At least the home directory and, ...

FordPerfect on May 30, 2023Linux NetworkWindows Network

Connect to Windows 10 Share (SMB1 succeeds, SMB2 fails)

Problem description: that mounting SMB1 on a Windows 10 computer works as follows because "SMB1 Support" is enabled: When I disable "SMB1 support" on the ...

Frank on Jan 20, 2023LinuxMonitoring

Install Monitoring Uptime Kuma

I have been looking for a simple monitoring program for our website for some time. Thanks to the help of our users I found in ...

Frank on Nov 21, 2022DevelopmentUbuntuDatabases

Ubuntu: Build Redisearch v2 module for Redis from source code

Here is a tutorial to compile the Redisearch module v2.x for Redis by yourself. At the moment you can get it as binary only as ...

Frank on Aug 16, 2022LinuxDebian

Debian turns 29 - Happy Birthday

Not only has a birthday today, but also the Linux rock Debian. It turns 29 years old. On August 16, 1993, Ian Murdock, who died ...

Frank on Aug 16, 2022LinuxLinux Desktop

Gnome turns 25 - Happy Birthday

Today Gnome turns 25 years old! I've been using this user interface for over 15 years and we've had our ups and downs. Currently it ...

Frank on Aug 11, 2022LinuxUbuntu

Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS available - Focal LTS to Jammy LTS upgrade now possible

Canonical has released Ubuntu version 22.04.1 LTS. From now on the 20.04 LTS (focal) to 22.04 LTS (jammy) upgrade via "do-release-upgrade" works in the console. ...

Frank on Aug 11, 2022LinuxUbuntu

New Ubuntu 22.04 promotional video released

Canonical has released a new promotional video "Upgrade your Desktop" from the current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release. Looks very fancy :-) Important for Ubuntu Server: ...

aqui on Jan 28, 2022LinuxLinux NetworkVPNRouters, Routing

IKEv2 VPN server for Windows and Apple clients on Raspberry Pi

Preamble The following tutorial did not claim to be fully comprehensive and the Raspberry Pi should be taken here as an example. It works ...

agowa338 on Oct 31, 2021LinuxWebserver

Php error with Nextcloud big file uploads

Hi, I've had some issues with the official Nextcloud (apache) container. When uploading some bigger files (I assume they're bigger, don't know for each individual ...

Siegfried36 on Oct 26, 2021LinuxLinux Network

IPv6: Server cannnot ping gateway but gets IP

I have three servers which should now also get IPv6 connectivity besides the IPv4. Servers: 1. Pi4 (Raspberry Pi OS) 2. Nextcloud (Debian 10; Nextcloud ...

Frank on Aug 19, 2021LinuxDebian

Debian version 11 released (codename Bullseye)

After two years, one month and nine days of development, the Debian Project released the next stable version 11 (codenamed Bullseye) on Aug. 14, 2021. ...

Frank on Aug 18, 2021LinuxLinux Desktop

Elementary OS version 6 (Odin) released

Now I almost forgot: The Linux distribution Elementary OS version 6 (Odin) was released last week. It is based on 20.04.2 LTS but has its ...

Frank on Jul 22, 2021Linux

Vulnerability in Linux kernel file system affects many distributions

Security researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in the Linux kernel (CVE-2021-33909). A vulnerability in the Linux kernel file system allows root privileges. Any unprivileged ...

Frank on Jul 22, 2021Linux

Vulnerability in Systemd affects many Linux distributions

Security researchers have discovered a new vulnerability in systemd (CVE-2021-33910). The vulnerability in the system and service manager (systemd) can cause the entire operating system ...

Frank on Jun 22, 2021LinuxRedHat, Fedora, CentOS

Install Powerline for Fedora

Powerline is a very practical optical extension for vim and the Linux shell (bash, zsh, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile). You can find an overview ...