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11/05/2026

SerNet, 2026

40 years of .de – 30 years of sernet.de

A double anniversary

On 5 November 2026, the country code .de celebrated its 40th anniversary. For SerNet, this marks a double celebration: just over 30 years ago, on 24 October 1996, we registered our own domain, sernet.de. It has therefore been part of three-quarters of .de’s history.

How .de…

10/19/2026

SerNet, Samba, Secure infrastructure, SAMBA, 2026

S2N 2026: SerNet on Proxmox VE for SMEs and the current state of Samba

At S2N Storage – Server – Network in Berlin on 3 and 4 November 2026, SerNet will give two talks. Thomas Schröder will show how small and medium-sized enterprises can build redundant virtualisation with Proxmox VE. Volker Lendecke, Samba developer at SerNet, will give an overview of the current…

09/24/2026

Secure infrastructure, SerNet, Events, 2026

SerNet Forum Recap: From Vulnerability Scans to Processes

On September 4, the hacker group Rhysida posted approximately 1.44 million files from the Berlin state government on the dark web: emergency plans for water supply, fire department documents, and a directory of framework planning for chemical, biological, and nuclear emergencies. Five days later, IT…

08/31/2026

SerNet, SAMBA, 2026

"Future is very bright!" – In Memoriam Steve French

“Future is very bright!”

That is the second-to-last slide of Steve French's final sambaXP talk. He recorded it at home in April, because he was already too ill to travel to Göttingen.

Steve died on 21 August 2026, a few days after handing over maintainership of the Linux kernel's SMB client because of…

08/07/2026

Apprenticeship, SerNet, Events, 2026

Linux.Camp 2026: Five days of hands-on technology

How does Linux work? What actually happens in a network? And how do a few commands and your first lines of code turn into your own project? From 3 to 7 August, ten participants with an interest in technology were able to find out exactly that at the five-day Linux.Camp at SerNet – through trial and…