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   • Linux

Services

We’re hosting three services, a private messenger, private search engine and private git instance, 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 …

Gitea

Gitea

Gitea is ‘A painless self-hosted Git service’. See more at gitea.io   We are hosting our own instance on git.pwoss.org. More explanations on our Wiki – Why Gitea?.

Wiki

Wiki

Gollum is ‘a simple wiki system built on top of Git. A Gollum Wiki is simply a git repository of a specific nature’ See more at github.com/gollum/   Our Wiki …

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Latest News

News / PwOSS / Server

Monthly Server Update – July`20

It’s been a quiet month.   System update pikaur -Syu –noconfirm   Pi-hole Only Pi-hole needs a little maintenance. Actually even that is not really necessary. But let’s stay up …

News

This Week in Matrix 2020-07-17

The main topic is probably the change of Riot to Element. This week was the announcement of the much-awaited rebrand: Riot is now Element. In fact, three brands are coalescing …

News

CVE-2020-12398 – Thunderbird

If Thunderbird is configured to use STARTTLS for an IMAP server, and the server sends a PREAUTH response, then Thunderbird will continue with an unencrypted connection, causing email data to …

News

Twitter Account Hack

The next big hack… I hope nobody sent any money.   Social media platform Twitter, earlier today on Wednesday, was on fire after it suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks …

Linux / News

Searx version 0.17.0 available

The new version of searx is available and it includes new features and fixes. Check the changelog on github. The tutorial is really simple and the update as well. Simply …

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Welcoming Automattic to Matrix!

Another investor has joined Matrix with almost $5M! Automattic are the creators of WordPress.   Hi all,   We’re very excited indeed to announce that Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com, …

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ProtonMail apps are now open source

This now includes the e-mail application for Android as well. It took ages until it was finally available as open source. But I still miss the option to use apps …

News / PwOSS / Server

Monthly Server Update – April`20

A simple update this month!   System update pikaur -Syu –noconfirm   Warnings / pacnew files php.ini.pacnew & mirrorlist.pacnew Mirrorlist Just use the new mirror. sudo mv /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and …

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