Complete Private Solution

Three installations are required to get a completely private solution for your digital life

BEGINNER

Desktop

Instead of Mac or Windows, which are not open source, it is recommended to switch to a Linux system

Arch Linux

INTERMEDIATE

Server

To sync your important data such as contacts, calendars, photos, videos, documents

Arch Linux

ADVANCED

Mobile

The smartphone is the biggest data-leak problem that should be stopped as soon as possible

Android

Services

We’re hosting two services, a private search engine and private messenger, everyone is welcome

Matrix

Matrix

Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication over IP. It can be used to power Instant Messaging, VoIP/WebRTC signalling, Internet of Things communication – or anywhere you …

searX

searX

searX is available at searx.pwoss.org. Why not just google or bing? Search engines like google or bing collect your search requests and create a profile about you to sell it …

Updates

The update interval of the server will be every 20th of the month.

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News

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Matrix

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Telegram

You don’t want to take any of the options? Just put a reminder in your calendar for each month to check the site for important news.

Latest News

News

Windows 7 End of Support

As you may have heard already, Windows 7 is no longer supported. It ended on January 14, 2020. It’s a shame. That was probably the best Windows version after XP. …

News / PwOSS

Ruby 2.7.0 – Gollum/Wiki

Ruby 2.7.0 Arch has updated Ruby to version 2.7.0, which makes the PwOSS – Wiki unusable. If you run the Wiki on your computer, you can follow the instructions again. …

Linux / News

Arch News – 04/01/20

Arch update:   As announced on the mailing list, on Friday, Dec 27 2019, our package compression scheme has changed from xz (.pkg.tar.xz) to zstd (.pkg.tar.zst).   zstd and xz …

News

Mozilla and Matrix

Matrix is getting more and more attention. After some investments by various companies, there are also some organizations that are moving the main chat to Matrix. KDE and a few …

Linux / News

Arch News – 20/12/19

Arch update:   2019-12-20 – Andreas Radke In the process of Xorg cleanup the update requires manual intervention when you hit this message: :: installing xorgproto (2019.2-2) breaks dependency 'inputproto' …

News / PwOSS

PwOSS News – December`19

I already mentioned in Monthly Server Update – December 19 that I am very busy at the moment. This will not change until March or even longer. Not many news …

News

Raspberry and Tesla

A YouTube video about a Tesla and a Raspberry Pi. It’s sometimes hard to understand because the sound is not really good, but still interesting.   If you want to …

Android / News

OnePlus discloses data breach

It would be great to know what’s behind "unauthorized party."   This is Ziv, from the Security team. We want to update you that we have discovered that some of …

Linux / News

Arch & Python 3.8

Arch updated to python 3.8.   You might get errors like: pikaur File "/usr/bin/pikaur", line 5, in <module> from pikaur.main import main ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pikaur' git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/pikaur.git …

News / PwOSS

FreshRSS Update V 1.15.3

FreshRSS New version of FreshRSS is available.   Update   pikaur -S freshrss   Go to your FreshRSS website (e.g. http://192.168.1.76:7666) Click on the Checks button on the left Scroll …

Linux / News

Arch News – 25/11/19

Arch update:   2019-11-25 – Giancarlo Razzolini   The primus_vk package prior to version 1.3-1 was missing some soname links. This has been fixed in 1.3-1 so the upgrade will …

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Contact

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