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62 articles
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Software You Rent vs. Software You Own
Commercial software was never really yours, and the last pretense of ownership is going away. Broadcom's VMware is the loudest example, not the only one. What renting costs, what owning actually takes, and how to tell…
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Just a Hobby: Thirty-Five Years of Linux and the Fortune Nobody Collected
Thirty-five years ago this week Linus Torvalds shipped Linux 0.02 and called it a hobby. Fourteen years later he gave away Git too. A tour of the world we'd be living in if he had sent an invoice instead.
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Why Coffey Labs Is an LLC Now
On October 5 Coffey Labs became Coffey Labs LLC, an Arizona company that owns the projects it maintains. Why I did it, why it had to be now, and what it does and doesn't change for anyone running the software.
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How I Accidentally Released Self-Hosted Thundermail
I read Mozilla's Thundermail FAQ and realized I'd already built the self-hosted kind. Same Stalwart foundation, opposite ends of the problem, and a chart I made to calm down.
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inbuxa, Ten Days In
Ten days ago I said why inbuxa exists. This is what it has done since: a migration tool you can download, the compliance features people hosting mail for others actually need, my own mail on a cluster, and a demo you…
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INBUXA Is Here: Why I Forked a Mail Server I Genuinely Admire
Yesterday I gave you a name and nothing else. Today the curtain goes up. INBUXA is a mail and collaboration server, its console and its webmail, built as one suite with every feature in the install — and this is the…
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LINUXexpert.org Is Now a Mastodon Server
The old LINUXexpert.org site has been retired and its articles live here now. The domain has a new job as a small, moderated Mastodon server for the Linux community, and you're invited to join.
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ihasmail, One Year On: I Threw It All Away Except the Name
A year ago I moved my mail to Stalwart and wanted a JMAP webmail to go with it. There wasn't one, so I wrote one, took it down the wrong road, deleted it, and started again — keeping only the joke domain I had already…
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ihasmail-oneshot: From a Bare Server to Mail and Webmail in One Command
ihasmail has always assumed you already run a Stalwart mail server. ihasmail-oneshot is for everyone who doesn't yet — one command that sets up Stalwart and ihasmail together, connected, with certificates, your first…
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WGX Grew Up: It's ihasvpn Now, Rewritten From Scratch in Go
Eleven months ago WGX was an installer that wired a VPN together out of other people's parts. It has been rewritten from the ground up as a WireGuard server of its own — one Go binary, one container, a console worth…
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ihasmail Was Written for One User
ihasmail started eleven months ago as a webmail for my own Stalwart server, and stayed private for ten of them. It is not competing with anyone — here is what it is, what it isn't, and why parity with other projects was…
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ihasmail Gained Nine Languages
Translations are the easiest thing in software to ship dishonestly. ihasmail gained nine, all of them machine-made and unreviewed — and the app says so, in the language you just chose. Plus swipe, hold and…