For PCs, Raspberry Pi's,
ESPRESSObin and cloud

Keeping your data private is better.

UBOS is a Linux distro that aims to make it 10x easier to self-host popular open-source web applications, for yourself, or for your family, on hardware or cloud servers you own.

Why give your valuable data to Google or some other data overlord, if you can keep it under your own control? All you need is a spare (physical, virtual, or cloud) computer that can run Linux. UBOS automates much of the administration, so you can get on with life.

Want to use Nextcloud instead of Dropbox? Shaarli instead of delicious? An RSS reader or discussion forum? UBOS makes installation and maintenance easy and quick.

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APPS

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HOWTO

Run UBOS

on an x86 PC (64bit) (bootstick, hard drive, container, VirtualBox, Docker) or cloud (EC2).
on a Raspberry Pi 0, 1 (SDCard, container) or Pi 2, 3 (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!