Cloudron has huge potential and I love looking at the suggestions in the App Wishlist. I love adding suggestions there, too.
Unfortunately though, I am reminded of the saying, "The eyes are bigger than the stomach." It is as though I am sitting at a table and ask for a strawberry, but before the strawberry has even arrived, I ask for a pineapple. Both of these are great ideas, I am sure you will agree, but then I ask for a mango.
@jdaviescoates Calibre is a wonderful tool, and it has loads of funcitonality, however, I am a bit wary of it.
The way it retrieves data from proprietary websites, e.g. Amazon for book covers, and other functionality makes me wonder whether it could well be turned against users to spy on what people have in their libraries.
@girish Thanks, so I think you should edit the last line in your original post in this thread to reflect this. http -->https
Thanks! I might have to try a few experiments to feel the difference from an end-users point-of-view.
Perhaps if there is a particularly popular video on the day, it might help make things very rapid. I think as an admin, you would have a much easier life with it in RAM.
Thanks for the nice tutorial!
The example you provide is:
src="https://your.host/embed/video"
So, if our website is:
https://ourwebsite.com
and the Owncast is at: https://owncast.ourwebsite.com
would we put:
src="https://owncast.ourwebsite.com/embed/video"
and reach the HLS (HTTP Live Stream) stream on e.g. VLC at:
http://owncast.ourwebsite.com/hls/stream.m3u8
or
https://owncast.ourwebsite.com/hls/stream.m3u8
SOLUTION: Wait. It takes a couple of minutes sometimes for everything to catch up with the changes.
You are seeing this page because the DNS record of streams.faif.uk is set to this server's IP but Cloudron has no app configured for this domain.
I needed to delete and reinstall the Owncast. I tried using the same sub-domain. I received the above error. I re-deleted the Owncast and tried installing it yet again, this time to a different sub-domain, but I received the same error again.
Perhaps I should just have waited longer after installation before trying to reach the Owncast.
That is a fantastic amount of RAM. How does having so much memory help the instance?
@robi I have long wondered how much nvidia would actually be giving away if they made everything Free. How much would AMD or Intel be able to advance their efforts by looking at that code? Could a startup company catapult ahead on the back of such information?
Are there modules or something like that which enable somebody Owncasting to receive payments / tips from the audience?
On proprietary platforms like Youtube, the equivalent is "superchat".
If there is no such facility, what might be the best way to accomplish this?
https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/
NVIDIA is now publishing Linux GPU kernel modules as open source with dual GPL/MIT license, starting with the R515 driver release. You can find the source code for these kernel modules in the NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Modules repo on GitHub.
This release is a significant step toward improving the experience of using NVIDIA GPUs in Linux, for tighter integration with the OS and for developers to debug, integrate, and contribute back. For Linux distribution providers, the open-source modules increase ease of use. They also improve the out-of-the-box user experience to sign and distribute the NVIDIA GPU driver. Canonical and SUSE are able to immediately package the open kernel modules with Ubuntu and SUSE Linux Enterprise Distributions.
Developers can trace into code paths and see how kernel event scheduling is interacting with their workload for faster root cause debugging. In addition, enterprise software developers can now integrate the driver seamlessly into the customized Linux kernel configured for their project.
This will further help improve NVIDIA GPU driver quality and security with input and reviews from the Linux end-user community.
With each new driver release, NVIDIA publishes a snapshot of the source code on GitHub. Community submitted patches are reviewed and if approved, integrated into a future driver release.
Refer to the NVIDIA contribution guidelines and overview of the driver release cadence and life-cycle documentation for more information.
Supported functionality
The first release of the open GPU kernel modules is R515. Along with the source code, fully-built and packaged versions of the drivers are provided.
For data center GPUs in the NVIDIA Turing and NVIDIA Ampere architecture families, this code is production ready. This was made possible by the phased rollout of the GSP driver architecture over the past year, designed to make the transition easy for NVIDIA customers. We focused on testing across a wide variety of workloads to ensure feature and performance parity with the proprietary kernel-mode driver.
In the future, functionality such as HMM will be a foundational component for confidential computing on the NVIDIA Hopper architecture.
In this open-source release, support for GeForce and Workstation GPUs is alpha quality. GeForce and Workstation users can use this driver on Turing and NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPUs to run Linux desktops and use features such as multiple displays, G-SYNC, and NVIDIA RTX ray tracing in Vulkan and NVIDIA OptiX. Users can opt in using the kernel module parameter NVreg_EnableUnsupportedGpus as highlighted in the documentation. More robust and fully featured GeForce and Workstation support will follow in subsequent releases and the NVIDIA Open Kernel Modules will eventually supplant the closed-source driver.
Customers with Turing and Ampere GPUs can choose which modules to install. Pre-Turing customers will continue to run the closed source modules.
The open-source kernel-mode driver works with the same firmware and the same user-mode stacks such as CUDA, OpenGL, and Vulkan. However, all components of the driver stack must match versions within a release. For instance, you cannot take a release of the source code, build, and run it with the user-mode stack from a previous or future release.
Refer to the driver README document for instructions on installing the right versions and additional troubleshooting steps.
Installation opt in
The R515 release contains precompiled versions of both the closed-source driver and the open-source kernel modules. These versions are mutually exclusive, and the user can make the choice at install time. The default option ensures that silent installs will pick the optimal path for NVIDIA Volta and older GPUs versus Turing+ GPUs.
Users can build kernel modules from the source code and install them with the relevant user-mode drivers.
Diagram with gray Installer ellipse pointing to two green rectangles showing how the CUDA R515 driver software is packaged with both binary and source modules.
Figure 1: Illustration of installation options for the end user to opt-in to open GPU kernel modules and the default path of closed source modules.
Partner ecosystem
NVIDIA has been working with Canonical, Red Hat, and SUSE for better packaging, deployment, and support models for our mutual customers.
Canonical
“The new NVIDIA open-source GPU kernel modules will simplify installs and increase security for Ubuntu users, whether they’re AI/ML developers, gamers, or cloud users,” commented Cindy Goldberg, VP of Silicon alliances at Canonical. “As the makers of Ubuntu, the most popular Linux-based operating system for developers, we can now provide even better support to developers working at the cutting edge of AI and ML by enabling even closer integration with NVIDIA GPUs on Ubuntu.”
In the coming months, the NVIDIA Open GPU kernel modules will make their way into the recently launched Canonical Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
SUSE
“We at SUSE are excited that NVIDIA is releasing their GPU kernel-mode driver as open source. This is a true milestone for the open-source community and accelerated computing. SUSE is proud to be the first major Linux distribution to deliver this breakthrough with SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 in June. Together, NVIDIA and SUSE power your GPU-accelerated computing needs across cloud, data center, and edge with a secure software supply chain and excellence in support.” — Markus Noga, General Manager, Business Critical Linux at SUSE
Red Hat
“Enterprise open source can spur innovation and improve customers’ experience, something that Red Hat has always championed. We applaud NVIDIA’s decision to open source its GPU kernel driver. Red Hat has collaborated with NVIDIA for many years, and we are excited to see them take this next step. We look forward to bringing these capabilities to our customers and to improve interoperability with NVIDIA hardware.” — Mike McGrath, Vice President, Linux Engineering at Red Hat
Upstream approach
NVIDIA GPU drivers have been designed over the years to share code across operating systems, GPUs and Jetson SOCs so that we can provide a consistent experience across all our supported platforms. The current codebase does not conform to the Linux kernel design conventions and is not a candidate for Linux upstream.
There are plans to work on an upstream approach with the Linux kernel community and partners such as Canonical, Red Hat, and SUSE.
In the meantime, published source code serves as a reference to help improve the Nouveau driver. Nouveau can leverage the same firmware used by the NVIDIA driver, exposing many GPU functionalities, such as clock management and thermal management, bringing new features to the in-tree Nouveau driver.
Stay tuned for more developments in future driver releases and collaboration on GitHub.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I download the R515 driver?
You can download the R515 development driver as part of CUDA Toolkit 11.7, or from the driver downloads page under “Beta” drivers. The R515 data center driver will follow in subsequent releases per our usual cadence.
Can open GPU Kernel Modules be distributed?
Yes, the NVIDIA open kernel modules are licensed under a dual GPL/MIT license; and the terms of licenses govern the distribution and repackaging grants.
Will the source for user-mode drivers such as CUDA be published?
These changes are for the kernel modules; while the user-mode components are untouched. So the user-mode will remain closed source and published with pre-built binaries in the driver and the CUDA toolkit.
Which GPUs are supported by Open GPU Kernel Modules?
Open kernel modules support all Ampere and Turing GPUs. Datacenter GPUs are supported for production, and support for GeForce and Workstation GPUs is alpha quality. Please refer to the Datacenter, NVIDIA RTX, and GeForce product tables for more details (Turing and above have compute capability of 7.5 or greater).
How to report bugs
Problems can be reported through the GitHub repository issue tracker or through our existing end-user support forum. Please report security issues through the channels listed on the GitHub repository security policy.
What is the process for patch submission and SLA/CLA for patches?
We encourage community submissions through pull requests on the GitHub page. The submitted patches will be reviewed and if approved, integrated with possible modifications into a future driver release. Please refer to the NVIDIA driver lifecycle document.
The published source code is a snapshot generated from a shared codebase, so contributions may not be reflected as separate Git commits in the GitHub repo. We are working on a process for acknowledging community contributions. We also advise against making significant reformatting of the code for the same reasons.
The process for submitting pull requests is described on our GitHub page and such contributions are covered under the Contributor License Agreement.
For more detailed FAQs refer to the Open GPU Kernel Modules GitHub page.
@Sydney Great suggestion and nicely formatted. I think it always must encourage people here if you mention that there is already a Docker image available, which there is:
https://github.com/actualbudget/actual-server#running-via-docker
I hope we get this going.
@timconsidine Thank you for your packaging efforts. You must be becoming better and better at it. I hope you become so good at it soon that it becomes a cinch for you to do most things!
@timconsidine
I knew there was a rental Module, but it wasn't very obvious on the Odoo page. Here you go! 
@timconsidine I haven't checked but it might be possible with the "Subscriptions" module, in the sales category:
https://www.odoo.com/app/subscriptions
One nice way of working around "real estate" or "vehicle" management, is to treat the property, room or car as a calendar. Create a calendar for it, and then you can book it as occupied/busy for a period of time.
You might also use the Maintenance module in Odoo to help manage a property. Usually, Maintenance is for something like e.g. a smoke alarm. You would need regular tests, and occasional battery replacements. You might be able to use Maintenance for "repairing" the room, e.g. making the bed, opening the windows, cleaning, etc.
Odoo is quite amazing... if only we were able to deploy it!
@LoudLemur
Despite this error, the installation seems to have gone well and I am able to interact with the instance.
I have to say, this Owncast looks gorgeous on the inside! Thank you to those who supported this on Cloudron and to whomever voted for this cool software. I look forward to trying it!
@girish Is this ready to be included as an experimental status Cloudron application yet?
Task Error
If a configuration, update, restore or backup action resulted in an error, you can retry the task.
An error occurred during the install operation: Task Error: Task 253 crashed with code 1 and signal null
I tried a first-time installation of Owncast. It failed, with the above error message. Trying again, as suggested, also failed.
Odoo Community Edition, which has been requested for Cloudron, also has support for inventory management.
The MRP (Material/Manufacturing Resource Planning) category has modules for PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and Maintenance.
@jdaviescoates said in Best privacy chat apps:
@marcusquinn like what? What are they/ have they replaced. Nothing as far as I'm aware.
A single Bitcoin transaction uses more energy than an average U.S. household uses in 2 months!
I mean, perhaps you're referring to how much banks still invest in fossil fuels? But if you think web3 is going to replace banks any time soon you are wrong
A 10-year old iPhone could process more transactions per second than the entirety of the Bitcoin network it's so insanely slow.
Wow! That is amazing. I had no idea.
@timconsidine
https://www.seekr.com/ is cool, but proprietary. I would prefer it over DDG. The results are good too.
@girish There is a Docker for Invidious here:
@robi
Why might somebody choose ElkarBackup instead of SyncThing?
@robi Some have said Piped works even better than invidio.us.
I works over TOR.
I haven't got round to using it yet. Thanks for the suggestion. I hope to try it soon.
@timconsidine I agree. In the case of Odoo, I think if you migrated out of the platform, your data might be in bad shape, on the other hand, your organization's structure would probably be in good shape.
I am still surprised how slow to change Odoo is in some regards, despite having a Free Software community supporting it. For example, crypto has been around for a considerable while now, and you would think that their eCommerce suite would include crypto payments as an option.
Anyway, I hope you are all doing well @timconsidine .
@colonelpanic said in How To Sell Digital Goods with Cloudron:
I don't sell digital goods, but I do have a side gig printing letterpress business cards, invitations, & stationery. I use InvoiceNinja (integrated with Stripe), Roundcube, Directus (file storage and job info), and a LAMP stack for my website (integrated with Directus).
We must be quite close to supporting Odoo on Cloudron now. When that wonderful day arrives, a ton of modules suitable for business will be available:
These modules all integrate with each other, and data input in one is pushed to others, to save you work.
The eCommerce module is available in the Community Edition. It provides you with a website, store-front, a means to show your wares, and manage payments. Your email can be handled with Odoo too.
Odoo's Events module helps you setup things like a conference or online training seminar. The Project module helps you plan the event, with Kanban and even Gantt charts. The Blog module is good to help people stay engaged with your offering and see what is going to happen or has been improving. The Employees Module is a good place to begin, as you assign roles to people within your organization, and their associated reporting structures.
Odoo is amazing software, but I offer two caveats, to save trouble: 1) Don't customize the modules, beyond their integrated utilities, as Odoo support kind of gives up on you if you aren't using standard Odoo. 2) Migrating into Odoo is one thing, but migrating out again, if you decide to go to another platform is another.
Anyway, Odoo is a great way to naturally fall into a good corporate structure that is efficient and scales well.
@robi
I really wish we could support YaCy on Cloudron.
Once deployment becomes easy on Cloudron, and the number of users running crawls increases, its value will scale enormously.
There is another browser extension which does work pretty well: Privacy Redirect.
For Wikipedia it sends you to Wikiless.
Librarian is a browser extension which redirects you to a more user-friendly, private frontend than LBRY/Odysee offers. You can self-host and make a Librarian instance and make it available to the public, if you like.
This application is part of the LibRedirect suite. Thanks to @robi for mentioning it! I hope Cloudron supports as many of those LibRedirect applications as possible. Lets reach out to their community.
@robi thank you for this brilliant link!
I am going to request Librarian right away!
Apparently, Twitter is set to accept Elon Musk's offer for the company. Though this isn't directly related to Cloudron, there might be some self-hosted applications that can help improve the Twitter experience.
Does anybody have any suggestions?
For example, Nitter is a Twitter proxy:
https://nitter.net
Support for Nitter has already been requested. Tweetdeck is proprietary and support has been suspended, but there is
https://alternativeto.net/software/tweetdeckr/?license=opensource
( Tweetdeckr
@marcusquinn Great find!
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast
(It is dreadful that they don't mention this on their homepage!)
Supporting ADS-B Exchange on Cloudron could help bring in Ham Radio enthusiasts to the community, many of whom are already GNU+Linux devotees.
Radio Hams like to see air-traffic and then try and tune in to hear the communications as the planes fly near their shack.
This is another kind of mapping application. It would be terrific if Cloudron could bring in some expertise in this important, datavisibility field.
@marcusquinn Thanks. Here is the Mithril examples page:
@ruihildt I think you must have seen the tools here?
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html
@jdaviescoates This looks excellent!
I hope we can support it on Cloudron. Non-Self-hosted text, image, audio and video hosting is all being censored.
A key feature of these tools should be that they support federation/distributed content, so that people who want to support an image or text or whatever, are able to easily click and have that content provided by their own instance.
This would be quite funny if the "ambience" was random fart noises.
Run a TV broadcasting studio.
(I think this project might be "open core" / "faux-pen source")
https://github.com/nrkno/sofie-core
https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=LeJxtTA3zms
https://github.com/nrkno/Sofie-TV-automation/issues/39
"Sofie: The Modern TV News Studio Automation System (Sofie Core)
This is the "Core" application of the Sofie TV News Studio Automation System.
The Core is a Meteor/Node.JS-based web server that serves the web-GUIs as well as handling the business logic for the Sofie TV Automation system."
@jdaviescoates This is a Cloudron Golden Era - we cannot congratulate each other enough!
Visualize development:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/embed/NjUuAuBcoqs
It is so cool!
https://gource.io/
https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource
"Software projects are displayed by Gource as an animated tree with the root directory of the project at its centre. Directories appear as branches with files as leaves. Developers can be seen working on the tree at the times they contributed to the project. Not really sure this animation alone brings any useful information but it’s definitely cool to see. Check the video below, showing the history of python development, to understand better what I’m talking about."
Cloudron has no icon on fontawesome.
I just noticed this.
https://fontawesome.com/
It is a matter of branding, so somebody sensible ought to manage this, if it is to be accomplished at all. (Lets Go Brandon!)
I noticed this thanks to the linkin thread, which is an application to generate linktree like lists.
I love your "lazy" suggestion, and want LittleLink too. I hadn't heard of it before, but I have noticed people using the proprietary LinkTree application, which is bound to be destroying anonymity on the internet.
I hope we can do this.
@robi A unicorn is cool, but dangling something off its horn is a bit naff, in my book.
Thanks for posting that image. To me it is a bad sign, as it indicates there is no thesis / counter-thesis culture there. Somebody proposed something (in my opinion, a bad idea, i.e. dangling something off a unicorn's horn) and for one reason or another, no counter-proposal was present, to negate the proposal or suggest something better.
If this is the case, it would be a sign of a lack of a defence system, the organization lacks the sort of immune system that can recognize and manage ill. Next, one could anticipate several other bad-actors to arrive and start corroding the system from within.
I hope this doesn't happen.
I am trying to think why I would use this instead of e.g. Sharex:
https://getsharex.com/
or Flameshot:
https://flameshot.org/
Please, somebody, support this on Cloudron!
@jeau Looks like an amazing project. I hope we can have some image hosting like that on Cloudron soon.
@robi
That is a very nice screen-cast. It helps demonstrate a function very clearly.
Shaarli is wondeful, but doesn't have a dark-mode.
What do people think of Linkding relative to Shaarli?
I have to say, Shaarli is superb and if you haven't tried it yet, please do give it a go. Tags are terrific. It is nice to see the daily too.
What I have in mind is like a public calendar/schedule, for example, one for the President.
People could subscribe to it, if schedules changed, they would be pushed from the calendar to subscribers. You could also see the Vice President's schedule alongside it.
@jdaviescoates Haha! This is very funny! Sorry about that. I am trying to do too much too quickly.
I knew flarum, but never saw it look so beautiful.
There is a large cohort of new (proprietary) calendar applications coming forward in 2022. They look slick. Hopefully we can find a beautiful, Free alternative for Cloudron.
There is a succinct and pretty review here:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=_w9y5XQFe_E
Some users said Vimcal was the best
https://cron.com/
https://magicalhq.com/
https://daybridge.com/
https://www.vimcal.com/
https://risecalendar.com/
https://amie.so/
https://hypercal.app/
https://atomcal.com/landing/
https://www.ticktick.com/
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/calendar
https://github.com/Etar-Group/Etar-Calendar
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/calendar/
https://sabre.io/baikal/
https://alternativeto.net/software/google-calendar/?license=opensource
https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/categories/1652-calendar-and-address-books
What do you think? Could Cloudron host Lightning calendar, for example?
@marcusquinn WOw! that feedback page is just gorgeous!
Thank you very much!
Can anybody identify it? Perhaps it is Free software...
@nebulon KDE neon usually waits till the x.04.1 release before proceeding with a major update. There is usually a load of people looking at a new LTS release, and tons of useful feedback.
@robi
If you are trying 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish in a Virtual Machine, there can be issues with Wayland during login. (Scroll to 4:00 here:
https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2/is-ubuntu-22.04-the-best-ubuntu-in-years:f
Mouse over to the bottom right and activate the dropdown menu there.
Wayland isn't famous for playing well with proprietary nvidia drivers.
If you want a leaner experience and Lubuntu, then there is a LxQt 1.1 PPA here:
https://launchpad.net/~severusseptimius/+archive/ubuntu/lxqt
I almost never hear people mention GNU savannah:
https://savannah.gnu.org/
Haha! @BrutalBirdie - you people are amazing. They are all there already!
Does anybody have a recommendation amongst all of these? We are spoiled for choice, thanks to Cloudron!
I was looking for something like this, and also saw Phabricator (no longer supported since June 2021).
Thank you for helping make self-hosting software projects possible using Gitea.
I wonder if there might be something better still? Gogs?
https://gogs.io/
https://github.com/gogs/gogs
https://www.libhunt.com/compare-gogs-vs-gitea
@jeau Fantastic!
We must try and find out why he had such a positive reaction and decided to package the application.
There is Qgis which you can populate with data from e.g. the Ordinance Survey:
