Open Source Links
Open Source Links
Open Source Software Reading
Open Source OSes:
Ubuntu Linux
Canonical's Linux; designed for both laptops & desktops, as well as servers
ubuntu.com
Linux Mint
Desktop-focused Improvement on Ubuntu - designed for laptops & desktops
https://www.linuxmint.com/
Debian GNU/Linux
multipurpose distribution, of which many other Linux versions are based. APT package management system.
debian.org
FreeBSD
robust OS adapted for many hardware platforms - often used in network servers
freebsd.org
NetBSD
multi-platform BSD-based OS noted for its portability
netbsd.org
OpenBSD
BSD-based OS noted for its security
openbsd.org
Fedora Linux
RPM-based general purpose Linux distribution, sponsored by Red Hat
fedoraproject.org
CentOS
free Linux distribution based on and binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise.
centos.org
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Subscription-based($) Certifiable Linux distribution often used in industry
www.redhat.com/rhel/
Open Source Projects:
Apache
open-source HTTP server
www.apache.org
nginx
newer, better open-source HTTP server than Apache
https://www.nginx.com/
Blowfish, Twofish
Free, strong encryption algorithms from Bruce Schneier
(削除) www.counterpane.com/blowfish.html (削除ここまで) https://www.schneier.com/academic/twofish/
ISC
Internet Systems Consortium, home of DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) and BIND 9 (open source DNS implementation)
www.isc.org
GNOME
An open source desktop environment for UNIX-like systems.
www.gnome.org
Nautilus
File management environment for GNOME
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus, https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Nautilus
Xiph.org
Open source codecs, such as FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Theora, Opus, Speex, CELT, etc
(削除) www. (削除ここまで)xiph.org
PHP
Hypertext preprocessor.
www.php.net
Python
An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
www.python.org
OpenStack
Open Source cloud computing platform, mostly deployed as IAAS (Infrastructure-as-a-service) in both public and private clouds
openstack.org
rysnc
Very fast file mirroring.
rsync.samba.org/rsync/features.html
Samba
SMB and CIFS client and server for unix and other OSes.
http://www.samba.org
SSL (OpenSSL)
cryptography toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) network protocols.
www.openssl.org
JSP
Java Server Pages; platform-independent XML-like tags and scriptlets written in the Java programming language.
java.sun.com/products/jsp
Enhydra
A "leading Open Source Java/XML application server" and a "comprehensive Web application development and deployment environment."
www.enhydra.org
Tomcat (Jakarta)
Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet 2.2 and JavaServer Pages 1.1 Technologies
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/index.html
Tinydns
-a small, fast, reliable Domain Name Server
http://tinydns.org/
Zimbra
Open-Source Turn-key eMail server software - VM-ready! We host it!
www.zimbra.com
Vinum
Vinum is a BSD block device driver, implementing the RAID-0, RAID-1 and RAID-5 models
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vinum/
Zope
dynamic content development system and manager
https://www.zope.org
Plone
Object-oriented acquisition-based CMS based on Zope and Python
https://www.plone.com
2026 Additions: What We Deploy Today
OpenZFS the filesystem behind every eRacks NAS: pooling, checksums, snapshots, self-healing openzfs.org
Proxmox VE open-source virtualization platform (KVM + containers) we preinstall on request proxmox.com
TrueNAS open-source NAS operating system, a popular choice on our storage lines truenas.com
Podman daemonless open-source containers, our container runtime of choice podman.io
Ollama run large language models locally, part of our preinstalled AI stack ollama.com
Open WebUI browser interface for local AI models, preinstalled on our AI servers openwebui.com
vLLM high-throughput LLM serving engine for production AI workloads vllm.ai
llama.cpp lightweight LLM inference in C/C++, runs models on modest hardware github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp
See also our free guides: Choosing a ZFS Layout and the Private AI Sizing Guide, plus machine-readable knowledge at llms.txt.
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