ArkOS

> from the ground up with privacy and security built in

Couldn't agree more!

> I'm finding that other folks are thinking along similar lines
> (but taking different approaches)

Not sure if this is the right place for it but does anyone have a list of all these similar projects? I know of:

* ArkOS [https://arkos.io]

* FreedomBox [https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/]

Seems to me that something like this can be built faster if resources were combined in some way. I guess the tough thing here is that people seem to have different visions as to what the end product would look like. Perhaps effort would be best expended by collaborating on a solid, secure "base" image which could then be forked as needed.

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My ideal system would:

* Be open source.

* Be built with a security mindset from the ground up.

* Have some sort of full system/drive encryption.

* Run on something like a Raspberry Pi with local storage attached.

* Have one identity per-person for social use (public/private blog, private chat, private audio/video calling, private email, private sharing of photos, videos, private VRM [1])

* Have the ability to spawn off anonymous identities that would not be traceable back to your IP/device for anonymous publishing/chat/email where required.

* Be easy enough that I can give one to my parents, create accounts for them, show them once how to use it and then forget about it.

* Have all of this backed up through some distributed, encrypted system like…

I'm not entirely clear if you're saying you prefer both yunhost and cozy cloud to sandstorm (or just cozy) - but at least for cozy.io it doesn't really seem like an alternative to sandstorm, as per the faq: "Currently Cozy supports only Node.js applications.", while as can be seen from: https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/vagrant-spk/packaging-tutorial/

"The tutorial uses a PHP app as an example. Sandstorm supports any programming language that runs on Linux, not just PHP, such as Meteor, Python, Rails, Node, PHP, C++, Go, Rust, and more. Read about vagrant-spk's platform stacks to see how to optimize your package for your app's programming language."

As for yunohost it looks like it is more comparable - but essentially is a "cpanel on steroids" - a nice way to automate managing classic server applications:

https://yunohost.org/#/whatsyunohost

Thank you for mentioning these, I wasn't aware of either -- but I don't think they really are an alternative to most of the use-cases sandstorm excel at.

Arkos seems similar to yunohost, although rather than an easy way to manage Debian, it's an easy way to manage Arch on arm (a curios limitation IMHO):

https://arkos.io/what-is-arkos/

It's supposed to be a cheap and complete server you can just plug into your own home. Remember answering machines? That they would store your voice mails, and it was a machine in your own home, which you could control all on your own? Your data physically stored under the same lock and key that you use for the rest of your life?

That's the idea with Freedombox. Host your own email server, website, chat server. Servers nowadays are called "clouds", so the idea is to have a "cloud" in your own home, under your control.

It's very similar to arkOS:

https://arkos.io/

Hi eliteraspberrie - You will find all the documentation you need on https://arkos.io. There is explanation about the various frameworks and plugins that work with Genesis, what they do, how to use them, how to develop with them, and so on.

There is a Security framework in Genesis that can be used to prevent access from external (non-local network) clients. Genesis does not have a default setting for this at this point, but I will see what I can do to implement it as this makes good sense.

Thank you! :)

https://arkos.io/

https://www.seafile.com/en/home/

https://syncthing.net/

https://owncloud.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Whisper_Systems

...just to name a few off the top of my head.

I agree that the excellent integration that Google or Apple products provide is not seen through the entire ecosystem of these other products, but it's being worked on and, to me at least, the progress being made is impressive.

For those of us (probably most of us) that would rather read quickly. Links from talks,

http://www.servalproject.org/

https://arkos.io/

http://mediagoblin.org/

http://cryptosphere.org/

https://www.zerotier.com/

http://drogul.us/