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by jcook818 13y ago
A few reasons, including ease of maintaining package repos with pacman, rolling-release nature, easy networking tools, and more. I will also concede a bit of personal preference :) But like that post said, there isn't much of a reason
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by jcook818 13y ago
awesome! You can run Genesis (the dashboard, which does most of the work) in any Arch-based VM as well, that's probably your best bet if you want to be able to look around quickly. https://github.com/cznweb/genesis
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by jcook818 13y ago
Yes, we are currently working on a dynamic DNS/proxying service and provisioning of special subdomains for those who don't have static IPs or their own domain name. Very early stages but eventually it will be directly integrated i
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by jcook818 13y ago
Of course neither I nor the project are able to endorse anyone contravening their ToS with arkOS. So that is something that everyone will have to keep in mind. Once the dynamic DNS/proxy service is online for arkOS servers, this will b
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by jcook818 13y ago
Very likely :) The exact shape and architecture of how this will work is still undecided but it is definitely something I'm thinking about.
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by jcook818 13y ago
Without getting into it too much (i could write a novel :p ), the caching system will have a role to play in this. There are many different ways to solve this problem, and rest assured that creating a competent and stable mail system (and a
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by jcook818 13y ago
It's not available quite yet, but Genesis will eventually be ported to other platforms/architectures. I just wanted to start with a focus of 'one' for simplicity's sake. Genesis (the dashboard) itself is Python so y
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by jcook818 13y ago
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out! As far as it being a new distro is concerned, my goal was to make it as simple and powerful as possible. Simplicity means being able to have a clean download and install process, prepackaged for
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by jcook818 13y ago
Sure! I'll look into it and have something ready soon. Thanks for the suggestion.
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by jcook818 13y ago
This is exactly the plan :)
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by jcook818 13y ago
The backend will likely use Postfix as MTA and dovecot (or other more lightweight solution) as MUA. Haven't settled on a final configuration yet. The magic will happen with the frontend and the utilities that oversee its operation, of
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by jcook818 13y ago
It was forked from the old version of Ajenti. The documentation on the site (arkos.io) is out of date, there have been a lot of changes and visual improvements since.
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by jcook818 13y ago
I wouldn't say that it's not a technical or UI problem. But I do agree that there are also political problems. Decentralizing "the cloud" isn't just something that can be addressed by technical means. But technolo
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by jcook818 13y ago
Yes and yes! Email is in the works and should be ready within 1-2 months. First goal is to get it working well and out of beta on the RPi, then after that it will be ported to other architectures.
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by jcook818 13y ago
Without an intuitive, user-friendly dashboard, targeted for actual users and not just sysadmins, making the "decentralized cloud" a reality isn't really possible :) The first problem to solve is making reliably self-hosting o
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by jcook818 13y ago
The dashboard (Genesis) will be ported to other architectures (and maybe other Linux distros too) in the future. Though the idea is that you use the dashboard for everything you need, as if it wasn't even Linux, so differences between
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by jcook818 13y ago
It's not necessary but would definitely help. Actually, living in NYC or around the I-87 corridor would also be good, it's close enough to me that I could run down there for a weekend if need be.
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by jcook818 13y ago
UPDATE! - I am presently looking for someone in the Montreal area who might be willing to help on this project and perhaps a future Kickstarter. Must know your way around Python (experience with Go would also be a plus). If anyone reading t
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by jcook818 13y ago
Hi there -- I do have plans for a Kickstarter, with some very interesting ideas on things that will be offered. Won't get into too much detail, but it will be awesome I can assure you :) I need to find a helper / partner before I
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by jcook818 13y ago
The management interface (Genesis) is GPLv3.
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by jcook818 13y ago
Hi there! Yes, I agree that apathy is a big problem. My hypothesis is that apathy can be driven down once the investment in time/money/education required for self-hosting services is reduced. If it can't be, then more educati
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by jcook818 13y ago
Notwithstanding a MITM attack, the pipes are secure enough, provided you are properly using encryption. If an app stores any sort of data unencrypted on a centralized server, that data is potentially accessible to others who can compromis
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by jcook818 13y ago
The operating system that Genesis runs on is packaged for installation on the Raspberry Pi, and its software packages are compiled for armv6 at this time. That being said, you can run Genesis on Arch Linux with little difficulty by just clo
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by jcook818 13y ago
It is an operating system with a control panel, but the control panel is/will be a lot more comprehensive than Webmin or analogous server management apps. Whereas Webmin gives you a web interface with which to manage your server, if yo
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by jcook818 13y ago
Not that I'm aware of, sorry. Zentyal is an option, but I believe it is geared towards small business, and is probably closer to Webmin than arkOS/Genesis. I do have plans of making arkOS work on x86-based systems, but my first go
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by jcook818 13y ago
This is true. I didn't mean to say that it would completely negate the effects of PRISM (or similar programs/policies). And it obviously doesn't eliminate the need for using encryption when you communicate with external servi
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by jcook818 13y ago
It gives you the same abilities as Webmin, but it is/will be so much more. No need to fiddle around with config files (like Webmin) but at the same time it presents the configurations in ways that non-sysadmins might hope to understand
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by jcook818 13y ago
Really? That's weird, it works just fine for me...
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by jcook818 13y ago
Ugh, wonderful timing. Thanks for letting me know Edit: Fixed, for now
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by jcook818 13y ago
Yes it is! Based on the 0.6 branch.

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