Links
A list of links to software projects, mostly open-source, that I like along with some articles that have been helpful.
Linux Distributions
- Debian Linux: An always-free Linux OS, and the basis for many popular distributions.
- Ubuntu Linux: A free, open-source Debian-based OS with commercial support.
- Mint Linux: A free and easy to use Debian/Ubuntu-based OS for desktops and laptops.
- Diet Pi: A Debian-based distro primarily developed for single board computers (SBCs) such as the Raspberry Pi.
- Proxmox VE: A Debian-based distro with an awesome GUI for managing KVM virtual machines and LXC containers with support for many storage options such as ZFS, LVM, NFS, SAN, and Ceph. Commercial support is available.
Software Projects
- Pi-Hole: A network-wide ad blocker (and DNS server).
- Wireguard: A fast, modern, and secure VPN tunnel.
- Smallstep: SSH certificate authentication.
- Duplicacy: cross-platform cloud backup tool with deduplication.
- Panamax: Docker management.
- Portainer: Easy Docker management.
- Monit: Server process monitoring and error recovery.
- Rclone: rsync for cloud storage.