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How to build multiarch container images and push them to a registry

Building the images podman build --platform linux/arm64,linux/amd64 --manifest ghcr.io/aero-project-eu/maestro-serverless-controller/jvm:20250910 . -f …

How to boot an Ubuntu VM from raw partition on physical disk in VMware

Introduction This tutorial assumes a dual boot installation on a physical drive. The instructions will guide you through the steps for creating a virtual machine using Windows 10 …

Gitlab LDAP authentication without querying account or anonymous binding

Note: This tutorial was last tested with gitlab 8.5 installed from source. This tutorial aims to describe how to modify a Gitlab installation to use the users credentials to …

How to build the linux kernel

Getting the source First you need to fetch the source. Visit kernel.org and get the version of your preference. Alternative, if you plan to hack it you might prefer to get the …

How to backup your configuration using Git

This tutorial is about backing up the configuration under a user’s home directory using Git. Git supports negation of patterns in .gitignore files. To negate a pattern we simply …

How to change the UID of a user with an encrypted home directory in Ubuntu

This tutorial is about changing the UID of a user with an encrypted, by ecryptfs, home directory in Ubuntu. You first need to logout the user you want to modify and kill all …

Enable automatic security updates in Ubuntu

This tutorial will enable automatic download and installation of security updates for Ubuntu. First we need to install unattended-upgrades: sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades …

Ubuntu 13.04 RAID-1 setup

Purpose This tutorial aims to help you setup a software RAID-1 (mirror) under ubuntu 13.04 Lets assume the following mapping /dev/sda1 / /dev/sda2 /home /dev/sda3 swap /dev/sda4 …

Getting started with Emacs

So you want to learn how to use Emacs… First of all install Emacs (I suggest versions >=24). Then start using it. It is going to be hard in the beginning, but day by day you will …

Using emacs and notmuch as a mail client

This tutorial aims to help you setup notmuch for multiple IMAP accounts and use emacs as a frontend. ( At the time writing this tutorial emacs version was 24.3 and notmuch version …