UBOS ::: a new Linux distribution you'll love

Our friends at LinuxJournal ( hi Doc) posted this fascinating article about Ubos I'm sure many of you will enjoy:


http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/youre-boss-ubos

"UBOS focuses on making the administration of home servers much simpler", says Johannes Ernst.

From Doc's article:

"Says Johannes:

My goal is to make the administration of personal servers 10x easier for users, and also to make it much easier for developers to create "personal data" Web applications that don't spy on us and get them deployed. Over time, we will get UBOS to as many pieces of hardware as possible, and pre-install lots of "personal data"-related middleware. We're already working with two Internet of Things projects to get UBOS to be the OS they run as the default on their hardware. Imagine if all the IoT products you bought were "indie" and not tied to some corporate overlord's take-over-the-world strategy? To do that, we need to make administration easier.

Here are some of the ways that's done:

  • Single-command deployment of Web apps, with automatic database provisioning, Web server configuration and so on—including SSL setup.

  • Full virtual hosting—for example, you can run two instances of WordPress with different plugins and one of ownCloud at http://personal.example.com/blog, http://home.example.com/news and http://home.example.net/owncloud on the same host.

  • Single-command undeployment.

  • Single-command full system upgrade, which backs up all your data, upgrades all code from the operating system over middleware to applications, runs whatever data migrations might be necessary and redeploys all your apps.

  • Single-command backup and restore of all or part of the apps installed on the same host."

So, does this make you want to try Ubos out? We sure do!

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