Thursday, October 23, 2025

Mailcow update

I'm running Mailcow mail stack for my own domain. I wrote a blog post about Mailcow install here. I have to say that it is pretty nice mailstack for my personal use. It has a significant hardware requirements (2x CPU, 4 GB RAM, 100 GB HDD) but it works pretty well and the most important is that simplicity of operations because I do not want to spend hours with mail server administration.

I recently realized, my Mailcow stack is outdated and there are available updates. I decided to make my first Mailcow update and it was pretty straightforward. Here is the procedure.

Saturday, October 11, 2025

How to install and use DBeaver in Ubuntu aarch64

DBeaver is a free, open-source database management tool for personal projects. Manage and explore SQL databases like MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Apache Family, and more.

I have Ubuntu running in Virtual Machine in macOS with Apple M4 Silicon, therefore I have ARM-based Ubuntu (aarch64). 

In this blog post I will show DBeaver installation install and basic usage.

How to expand disk in Ubuntu

I have Ubuntu OS running within VM in VMware Fusion (macOS) so expanding disk from 50 GB to 55 GB is pretty easy. Let's demonstrate the expansion process.

Rocky Linux - Basic Operational Procedures

Rocky Linux is an open-source, community-driven Linux distribution designed to be a bug-for-bug compatible downstream rebuild of Red Hat Ent...