For PCs, Raspberry Pi's,
odroid-xu3/4, odroid-hc1/2,
ESPRESSObin, VirtualBox,
Docker and cloud

Keep your data close.

The UBOS project develops software that makes it easier for you to control your personal data and your privacy on-line. It has several components:

UBOS Linux is a Linux distro that aims to make it 10x easier to self-host applications such as Nextcloud, so you can run your own web services for youself, your friends and your family without depending on somebody else’s cloud services.

UBOS Mesh is middleware with a web frontend that lets you import your data from Facebook, Google and other on-line services and use it as you wish (in development; preview only so far).

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APPS

... and others.

HOWTO

Run UBOS

on an x86 PC (64bit) (bootstick, hard drive, container, VirtualBox, Docker) or cloud (EC2).
on a Raspberry 2, 3 (SDCard, container) or Pi 4 (SDCard or USB disk, container)
on an Odroid-XU4, HC2 (SDCard, container)
on a Marvell ESPRESSObin (SDCard, hard drive, container).

Install an App

# ubos-admin createsite
Hostname: ubos-pc.local
App: nextcloud...

Code installed, database provisioned, virtual host configured...

Upgrade everything

# ubos-admin update
Done.

OS updated, apps upgraded, database migrations performed, services restarted...

Backup & restore

# ubos-admin backup \
   --all --backuptofile \
  all.ubos-backup
# ubos-admin restore \
  --in all.ubos-backup

Plenty of options for more fine-grained control.

Get started!