cPanel Alternatives for a Linux VPS
Free cPanel alternatives for a VPS: Virtualmin, ISPConfig, CyberPanel, HestiaCP, CloudPanel and Froxlor, with install commands and the migration traps.
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Free Claude Ultra for Open-Source Maintainers
Anthropic gives approved open source maintainers six months of Claude Ultra. See the current eligibility routes and the billing catch at month six.
Omnigent: one harness for many agent CLIs
Omnigent drives the agent CLIs you already have installed. What a meta-harness is, how to pin release 0.7.0, and how to sandbox each agent on a VPS.
Linux kernel history: the decisions that stuck
A history of the Linux kernel from 0.01 to 7.x: the GPL switch, the microkernel argument, the birth of git, the LTS model, and what each means for servers.
What to self-host in 2026: 25 apps
A curated list of 25 self-hosted apps worth running in 2026, grouped by job, with what each one replaces, honest RAM and disk needs, and the gotcha to know.
Bento: the office suite in a single file
Bento is an MIT licensed office suite that ships as one HTML file. What that shape buys you on a small VPS, and what it costs against Nextcloud.
The history of Unix and Linux, 1969 to now
How Unix became Linux: Bell Labs in 1969, AT&T licensing, Berkeley BSD, the 1992 lawsuit, and why the server room went to Linux instead of BSD.
Is WireGuard free? What actually costs money
WireGuard is free, open source software and your keys cost nothing. What you pay for is the server at the far end of the tunnel. Here is who runs it and why.
MiMo-Code: Xiaomi's answer to Claude Code
What MiMo-Code actually is: Xiaomi's MIT-licensed terminal coding agent, forked from OpenCode. Read the self-reported benchmark claims before you switch.
Who Owns Linux? Kernel Copyright and Trademark
No one owns all of Linux. Copyright stays with each contribution's owner, Torvalds owns the trademark, and the Linux Foundation only licenses it.
Ponytail: the lazy senior dev agent skill
Ponytail makes a coding agent take the smallest change that works. What it ships, what its own benchmarks show, and how to copy the rule today.
Graft: a codebase map for coding agents
Graft parses your repo with tree-sitter into a codebase map your coding agent queries over MCP, so it stops rediscovering the same structure every session.
Self-host Agentlas OS: agent hub on a VPS
Install Agentlas OS v1.2.0 on a Linux VPS: the pinned install, where state lives, how to point it at Ollama, and what an idle agent hub really costs.
Is Linux Free? What You Pay For and Why
Linux is free to download and run on any number of machines. The money goes to four places: subscriptions, support, paid cloud images and the server itself.
How Debian votes: the General Resolution
Debian policy is set by a ranked ballot of about a thousand developers. How a General Resolution is proposed, seconded, counted, and reaches your server.
AI-assisted code and open source policies
Open source projects disagree on AI-assisted code. Find the project's policy before you open the pull request, and disclose it in the commit trailer.
A history of open source software
From the Homebrew Computer Club to the SSPL: how the GPL, the 1998 rebrand and today's relicensing wave shaped the apps you self-host today.
The Fable method: skills for any model
The fable-method repo turns Claude Fable 5's habits into agent skills. What each file does, what ports to other models, and how to A/B it on a VPS.
Self-host Open Connector for AI agents
Run the Open Connector auth gateway on your own VPS so your agents never hold a SaaS token: pinned image, TLS origin, OAuth callbacks, backups.