UBOS Beta 2 is here!

We’re proud to announce that UBOS is now available in its second beta release.

You can run UBOS:

• on standard PCs, as their primary operating system
• on standard PCs and Macs, in VirtualBox
• on your Raspberry Pi Model B and Model B+.

Highlights

• Many bug fixes and reliability improvements from beta 1, as to be expected.

• UBOS has an installer that makes it easy to install UBOS on a new computer. Download the the image for a bootstick, boot in the boot stick and run sudo ubos-install /dev/sda to install UBOS on your first hard drive. RAID1 is also no problem, simply say sudo ubos-install /dev/sda /dev/sdb. More options are available.

• UBOS now makes it just as easy to create TLS-secured websites as it is to create non-secure ones. Just say sudo ubos-admin createsite --tls --selfsigned. You can also bring an official certificate.

• Hosts running UBOS now advertise themselves on the local network using mDNS/zeroconf. This solves the problem of “but what IP address does my box have”? Look for ubos-pc.local, ubos-raspberry-pi.local etc. on your local network.

• Many improvements that make packaging and testing apps for UBOS easier and more reliable.

Apps

Owncloud: Your Cloud, Your Data, Your Way!
Upgraded from 7.0.x to 8.0.0.

Known: Publishing Platform for Everyone
Upgraded from 0.6.4 to 0.7.1

Wordpress: Blog tools, publishing platform, and CMS
Upgraded from 4.0 to 4.1

Jenkins, the continuous integration app we use to build UBOS itself on UBOS.
Upgraded from 1.580.1 to 1.580.3

Mediawiki: The wiki that Wikipedia runs on
Upgraded from 1.23.x to 1.24

Selfoss: The multipurpose RSS reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application
Kept at same version.

Shaarli: Your Own URL Shortener
Kept at same version.

For more details, refer to the release notes.