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Install Flarum Forum

Flarum Forum

Flarum is a brilliantly built, light-weight, powerful forum software that may just be perfect f...

Updated 5 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Install our IdP and VPN

Domain, NGinX Proxy Manager, Authentik,... Installing the Baseic Building Blocks

I have extensive articles on installing Authentik, Netbird, NGinX Proxy Manager, Docker, and Do...

Updated 5 months ago by Brian McGonagill

About Awesome Open Source

About Awesome Open Source

The Awesome Open Source YouTube channel was started in 2019 after I looked for instructiona...

Updated 5 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Install VDO.Ninja

VDO.Ninja Installing VDO.Ninja

What is VDO.Ninja? Pronounced 'video ninja'. it's an incredibly powerful real-time video meeti...

Updated 6 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Install Incus and Setup LXConsole

Containers and VPNs Incus Containers - Start to Finish

In this episode, we are covering the combination of two amazing open source projects.  Incus (a...

Updated 6 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Install and Configure Beszel

Beszel Monitor Beszel Server and Agent

  Beszel is an incredibly simple, but powerful, system monitoring tool that is ideal for any hom...

Updated 6 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Install and Configure a Primary and Secondary Technitium Authoritative Name Server

Authoritative DNS Technitium DNS Server

Authoritative DNS First, you'll want to have a domain name you've registered, and can change t...

Updated 6 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Install Minarca Backup

Backup Software to Save your Data Minarca Backup

We'll start with a new Incus container (LXC / LXD).  I am starting with an image of a Ubuntu 22...

Updated 6 months ago by Brian McGonagill

NetBox - Open Source Network Inventory and Mapping

NetBox - Open Source Network Mapping

NetBox is an Apache 2.0 licensed open source software suite that allows you to design, map, and...

Updated 6 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Install Wazuh Server and Add Agents

Security Tools Wazuh SIEM

  Wazuh is an open source set of tools that we can put to work for us and our clients, helping u...

Updated 7 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Adding New Users and User Groups to OpenRPort

OpenRPort OpenRPort

A viewer asked me how to get this done, and the OpenRPort documentation is a bit light on this. I...

Updated 8 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Here are the projects I currently Support monetarily in Open Source

My Support of Open Source

As part of my YouTube Channel, I promise that I will use funds I get from YouTube as well as from...

Updated 8 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Moving from Rocketchat to Matrix

Stuff Happens

Looking for the Open Source Is Awesome Discussion Board? Me too.  RocketChat recently instituted...

Updated 9 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Install and Setup Bookstack, an Open Source Wiki

Wikis, Documentation, and Blogs Bookstack

Bookstack is an incredibly powerful, open source, self hosted wiki solution.  It's set apart fr...

Updated 9 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Discussion Forums

About Awesome Open Source

The Awesome Open Source discussion forum was originally setup using Rocketchat, an open source ch...

Updated 9 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Upgrade OpenWRT the Easy Way

Home Network Setup on Open Source OpenWRT Updates the Easy Way

  It's important to keep your Router / Firewall appliances updated to the most recent versions o...

Updated 9 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Install Coolify and Confgure

Local and Remote Server Management Coolify Setup and Usage

What is Coolify Coolify is an application that can be used to deploy applications, databases, ...

Updated 9 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Installing and Configure RPort for Remote Monitoring and Access

OpenRPort

These shownotes have been removed as RPort is no longer Open Source. Sadly - RPort was purchased...

Updated 10 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Install and Configure OpenRPort RMM

OpenRPort OpenRPort

  What Is It? OpenRPort is an RMM (Remote Machine Management) tool. It's a server based system ...

Updated 10 months ago by Brian McGonagill

Install and Configure Affine

Affine - Replacement for Miro, Notion, ... Affine Installation

A word about Affine's language when it comes to self-hosting vs "cloud".  It's a bit confusing,...

Updated 10 months ago by Brian McGonagill