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The Most Popular Open-Source Media Servers The most popular open-source media servers are: Plex Jellyfin Kodi Emby MediaPortal Universal Media Server OSMC A Feature Comparison The media server features we will compare are: Server Platforms - T...

Complimentary Applications for Media Servers There are number of complimentary software packages, applications and tools available for various media servers. Some are designed for content management such as transcoding digital video formats, naming content, m...

Lubuntu started life as a distro designed to run on older, slower, and lower-spec hardware, and that remains one of its selling points: It needs as little as 1GB of memory (though there are no official minimums). But its developers have fine-tuned its appro...

Debian, also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version of Debian was released ...

Alpine Linux is designed to be used for a variety of purposes, including servers, containers, and embedded devices. It is notable for it’s small size (as of the Alpine Linux (3.15.0), the minimum size of the ISO image is around 129 MB and a minimal Alpine im...

Linux Mint is generally regarded as the easiest way to get away from Windows and Mac and enter the wonderful world of open-source operating systems. With a simple installation process, great interface and a lot of ease-of-life features, there’s nothing stopp...

What is Tails? Tails (which stands for ‘The Amnesiac Incognito Live System’) is probably the most well-known privacy-focused distro. It can be run from a DVD or USB in Live mode whereby it loads entirely into your system RAM and everything is purged from th...

  Sonarr is a PVR for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new episodes of your favorite shows and will grab, sort and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality of files already downloaded when a...

Radarr is a movie collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new movies and will interface with clients and indexers to grab, sort, and rename them. It can also be configured to automatically upgrade the quality...

Prowlarr is an indexer manager/proxy built on the popular *arr .net/reactjs base stack to integrate with your various PVR apps. Prowlarr supports management of both Torrent Trackers and Usenet Indexers. It integrates seamlessly with Lidarr, Mylar3, Radarr, R...

Lidarr Lidarr is a music collection manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users. It can monitor multiple RSS feeds for new albums from your favorite artists and will interface with clients and indexers to grab, sort, and rename them. It can also be configured t...

Overseerr is a free and open source software application for managing requests for your media library. It integrates with your existing services, such as Sonarr, Radarr, and Plex. It provides your users with a way to make requests for your media server and ...

GoAccess Web Server Statistics GoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that requir...

MyWiki Tim B. - February 2023 MyWiki was primarily and initially designed to be a personal knowledge-base library to archive information I have learned on topics I find of interest. For myself, it is a reference resource, archive and, sometimes, a platform t...

Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. With Compose, you use a YAML file to configure your application’s services. Then, with a single command, you create and start all the services from your configuration. I heavily...

FreshTomato is a firmware project based on Linux, targeting home and SOHO routers. FreshTomato is distributed on the GPL license. FreshTomato supports Broadcom based systems. I currently run Fresh Tomato firmware on several Netgear Nighthawks. The R7000 ...

DD-WRT is a Linux based alternative OpenSource firmware suitable for a great variety of WLAN routers and embedded systems. The main emphasis lies on providing the easiest possible handling while at the same time supporting a great number of functionalities w...

The OpenWrt Project is a Linux operating system targeting embedded devices. Instead of trying to create a single, static firmware, OpenWrt provides a fully writable filesystem with package management. This frees you from the application selection and configu...