I'm running a small website on a Cubiebord 1 SBC off my home internet connection. For such a scenario - home server on a desk, non demanding website such as a wiki - an SBC is a winner. Mine has been running since 2013 with no major outages apart from a few SD cards failing along the way (I had backups and a mirror on a cheap VPS). And I purposely choose not to use an SSD or a spinning disk (I could with that particular SBC) to save energy since that thing is always on and idles at around 2Watts. Noise and bulk were also a factor in my choice. There are no moving parts or spare components that can fail and indeed I didn't had any problem in ten years apart from SD cards. For 60€ - case included - it was a good deal.
I've tried many of them and I keep turning to kdenlive, both on linux (my main driver) and windows. I've been using it for years, although occasionally. From my perspective it's the best FOSS NLE out there both in terms of features and stability. For the occasional user it gets the job done. Kdenlive used to crash a lot years ago but I'm not having any issue at all in the last couple of years (while Clipchamp, promoted by MS, crashes all the time).
One more vote for Shaarli. I just need tagged bookmarks and it does the job while being fast, reliable and simple.
I'm also using the Firefox extension and Android app. Super easy.
Still I run Windows occasionally when I need some specific proprietary apps that are not available on other platforms (mostly electronic design suites).
Well "libera" means free in Italian so it makes sense to me. There are also other projects with sound the same such as libre (spanish I guess) office.
I like it. But I'm biased being from Italy.
Workflow changed with darktable 3 and to get the most out of it I recommend reading this article: https://pixls.us/articles/darktable-3-rgb-or-lab-which-modul...
Many modules - that still work - are now deprecated in favour of RGB workflow new modules. The article above suggests proper alternatives for each of them.
I've never had an issue in 7 years while upgrading (unpack a tgz file and minor cleaning) so my experience is different. Backup is not an issue because all pages are just text files I can rsync anywhere. Plugins can be updated clicking a button in the admin panel and infrequent updates to the main wiki is a feature to me while all is working fine. In the end it depends of what you use it for and right now I trust this solution and I'm confident it will keep working in the future.
I've looked into wiki.js and its really nice but I doubt I could run it on my hardware and I'd have to install node and Postgres (docker is not my thing, I'm old school!). Anyway the real deal breaker to me is that mathjax support is not there yet and I need formulas.
Dokuwiki is fast and bloat free and works great on mobile browsers since 2012. I've been running it on the same single board computer since 2013 (good luck running Wordpress or Nextcloud on that hardware!).
Install is super easy - linux-apache-php and no DB so it runs everywhere - and it hardly needs maintenance(all I do is upgrade every now and then when a new version is released).
It's theme/template may be dull but it's simple, clean and not outdated yet. Moreover it's a wiki, not a blog so... who cares? Content is all that matters!
That said I like choice be it for themes or wiki apps!
Good news for all the school people that has been using it for learning purposes only (eg my students).
That said there are good alternatives already like jitsi or - time limit apart - zoom.
I've just gave it a try but nightly is still on the older version here. Anyway Firefox Preview is my default browser with Firefox Beta as a backup on Android. Preview is much faster but lacks extensions and many settings. Moreover I'm not sold on the new UI: address bar at the bottom is fine as long as it goes on top for some tasks, history is hard to find and I miss the favorites sites start-page (have to create groups but it's not the same).
I use Firefox over Chrome because Google - you know... there's a submission a day about that - and I trust Mozilla much more to be-not-evil and such. So it's kind of a political-ethical thing. On PC performance is on par so it's not a compromising choice. On Android Chrome still has an edge.
I've just received my Somu by Solokeys. It's an open-source security key for 2FA. I've tested it on Windows and Linux adding it as a security key for 2-Step verification and it works flawlessly.
I backed this project on Crowdsupply in September for 25$ and I'm glad they delivered.
Still using mine, and it's the lower specs Celeron I bought used for 100€.
Lightweight, small and with a great battery life. Bad screen. I used to carry it around everywhere cause it's cheap and secure enough but as a longtime Linux user I got quite frustrated by the platform limitations.
It's now running Debian with no particular issues and I'm fine with that.
Dokuwiki is great. Self-hosted, low requirements (no DB, just php), easy to maintanin, plain text files so data always accessible. It's a wiki so easy to edit and publish; readers can register and contribute.
I've used and recommended it until the Go/PostGres rewrite happened with miniflux 2. I've switched to Selfoss since then because it had more costraints when self-hosting (php and no database was easier).
I'm glad I can. It's a known, trusted distribution I've been using since 2001 on my main PC. It runs my personal web server since 2013 on a Cuibeboard and it works well. I've got a stable system which I'm familiar with, plus automatic updates, no binary blobs, vanilla kernel and all.
I can't think of a better solution if the SBC is supported. What would you recommend as an alternative?
On my 5 years old cubieboard server I experienced NAND corruption more often then not when power outage occurs. Never had this kind of problems since I switched to SD cards.
In my experience SD cards are much slower but more reliable and easier to manage (backups and such).
I'm using a Cubieboard as a web server and I'm very happy. It's a 50$ Raspberry clone from 2013 with better specs (for the time). Consider that:
- it runs mainline kernel and a regular debian distro
- 5W max (but it's idle most of the time)
- has good enough specs for a webserver (proper ethernet, 1GB ram, SATA support), works better than a cheap VPS
I run apache and some low-demanding webapps on it:
- dokuwiki
- miniflux (feed reader)
- shaarli (bookmark manager)
and it serves pages via my home DSL connection (with DDNS).
I did consider the alternatives - netbook/notebooks - but for my use case reliability, safety and power consumption would be much worse. These devboard is fanless and runs everything off an SD card. OK, SD cards are slow but on failure (never happened in three years!) I can just swap it with a (recent) cloned one with almost no downtime. I could use the faster onboard NAND but it did fail once on blackout and I went back to SD cards. I could even use a SATA HDD but I don't need that much storage.