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Considerations

Services

By hosting a service, we must act as designers, developers and systems administrators.  Whether i...

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Collectives and Identity

Software

The free and open-source movements are a massive experiment in decentralizing the creation of sof...

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Building Community

Software

The free and open software community is the culmination of the free software movement, the open s...

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Common Language

Hardware

Computers are complex machines that require the near constant communication and synchronization t...

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Getting Started

Your Personal Cloud

This page will act as a guide through the five books that make up this lesson.  We will be explor...

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Welcome

Your Personal Cloud

You may know how to install a program on your computer, but might not even know where to start wh...

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Computer

Your Personal Cloud Understanding The Requirements

What you're planning on doing with your server will dictate the hardware you'll need to fulfill t...

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Internet

Your Personal Cloud Understanding The Requirements

You will need internet access for your home server and the devices connecting to it. Your Interne...

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About the Author

Your Personal Cloud

This library was created to advocate for technological freedom, equal access and transformative s...

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Digital Stewardship

World Wide Web

Digital self-determination https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_self-determination Digital s...

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Administration

Monitoring & Maintenance

Hardware Monitoring Cockpit is an excellent way to monitor your server's CPU, memory and st...

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Installation

Cockpit

You can use the terminal to install Cockpit quickly and easily: sudo apt-get install -y cockpit ...

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Sustainable Solutions

Monitoring & Maintenance

It's important not to create a system that is difficult to maintain or rather becomes easier to i...

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Cleaning

Monitoring & Maintenance

It is greatly recommended that you periodically clean the inside of the computer system to remove...

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Background

Your Personal Cloud

Many people know how to install a computer program, but wouldn’t even know where to begin if aske...

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Evaluating Safety

Services

This is how we evaluate software. How to identify safe open source applications Open source vs ...

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An Open Ecosystem

Software

Linux is an open-source community that focuses on sharing power and responsibility among people i...

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Ourselves

Your Personal Cloud Understanding The Requirements

When we approach technology projects – either as an individual or part of a larger community – th...

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Next Steps

Monitoring & Maintenance

We need to connect our server to the outside world now that everything is ready behind-the-scenes...

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Next Steps

Services

Now that we have installed a service to see how it works, we need to keep an eye on our server an...

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