1y ago

UmbrelOS: A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store.

GitHub - getumbrel/umbrel: A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store. Buy a pre-built Umbrel Home with umbrelOS, or install on a Raspberry Pi 4, Pi 5, any Ubuntu/Debian system, or a VPS.

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1y ago

UmbrelOS: A beautiful home server OS for self-hosting with an app store.

github.com /getumbrel/umbrel

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While I personally don't oppose licenses that forbid commercial usage, this is not open source.
- Worthy actual open-source alternatives :
  YunoHost https://yunohost.org/ GPL3
  FreedomBox https://freedombox.org/ DFSG (Debian Project)
  Sandstorm https://sandstorm.org/ Apache V2
  CasaOS https://www.casaos.io/ Apache V2
  startOS https://start9.com/ MIT
  homelabOS https://homelabos.com/ MIT
  However, I still use UmbrelOS as compared to all of those, It's the only one which seems to work well with my RPI4 and the connected drive with it, despite my modest Linux knowledge (Fedora and Arch on mobile user), and Umbrel being unsecure and retaining app versions compared to upstream.
  
  Thanks, Maybe I will try CasaOS.
  
  Dietpi is a nice option too. Super minimal initial installation and has its own repo of pre-configured software (based on debian) for easy installation of a whole host of applications for selfhosting:
  https://dietpi.com
- On top of that, if I'm going to recommend something like this to my less techie friends/family as an alternative to big-tech products, I'm not going to pick something that can't be forked and can be purchased by some bigger company and shut down or squeezed for profit the moment it gets popular.
Looks like YunoHost, but hearing about the licensing issues, I'll stick with YunoHost.
- Long life to Yunohost!
- what does yuno use in the background to manage services? is it container based?
  
  It uses systemd services. My understanding is that it aims to have the applications installed in the most straightforward way possible - avoiding containers where possible.
"There is a warning from a user on Reddit. Might be worth considering before buying. https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/16qekm6/dont_buy_an_umbrel/"
Original comment https://lemmy.world/comment/8794572
- Their "app store" is small, outdated (from an app update perspective), and filled with cryptocurrency junk.
  The operative term being those last two words:
  cryptocurrency junk
  
  I saw this OS mentioned earlier and gave their website a gander. It was immediately apparent how important crypto was to their marketing, and that saved me a lot of time looking any further.
- A tad unrelated, they are complaining mostly about the sold micro-nas they sell.

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Worthy actual open-source alternatives :

cryptocurrency junk