UmbrelOS: consumer-friendly private servers a reality at long last?

The most user-friendly Linux-based server software of 2024 on its way to hundreds of millions of PCs

Kostas Farkonas
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5 min readApr 8, 2024

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Setting up a Linux server for the home has been affordable for a long time, but the process is not for everyone. This is the missing piece UmbrelOS, which recently reached v1.0, will strive to provide. (Image: Umbrel)

Reporters covering tech for the consumer market don’t seem to hold much hope about open source operating systems going mainstream for everyday use — there have been precious few “this…

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Kostas Farkonas
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