Release is up. Please give it a shot. You will need to make this device your dns server. town-os.github.io for instructions. You can use github.com/erikh/attrou... and github.com/erikh/eeroctl if you want some easy ways to adjust your dns settings.
It's still very early, but there are applications.
Honestly just enough flexibility to be able to get repositories as I need them. I am happy to pay for them. I also just noticed as I was trying to release 0.1.0 that I cannot release images with a larger than 1.5GB limit. I'm going to put it on github for now.
Latest screens: package installations and the products.
It's really arriving very soon.
Monitoring, dependency systems are all stabilizing as well. The OTA update system is also pretty reliable, too. Working on performance, packages, and polish. Instruction videos coming soon.
Got jitsi working last night -- TLS termination is also there. The DNS server manages it all and we're getting to the point where people other than me can actually use this thing.
Current package set also includes gitea, matrix, mattermost, plex.
Another idea I've been having for a while is: let's say, due to certain arguments between Oracle and Google that all APIs were free?
Well, what if we used AI, and ... something like Microsoft Technet, and just... rebuilt windows from it?
Moving monday. Should have more time to put into townos in a week or two.
Please thank pepr.ai for giving me work and a bonus/loan. They've been really supportive of the project, ensuring that I have time to attend events and doubling down on the IP contract after I noticed townOS was missing.
- the pages feature is taking a break. I need to build a proxy, do some virtual ip bullshit, etc before that and a few other major features can land.
- first release will be more or less proxmox with tighter integrated storage without vms
- same vein, the monitoring system is now modular -- grafana is pretty heavy, I set up uplot by default and grafana is a swappable option. it also dogfoods the packaging system now, so that should be able to be swapped.
- the same system (github.com/erikh/ttyforce) is also used for a status screen. there are some videos if you want to see it.
- packages and dependencies are maturing rapidly
updates! short version -- everything's broken right now! But we've got some things cooking in thread:
- setup is more or less done. wifi works, and it'll also group storage right to give you options when setting up RAID, etc.
A month and a half, and that's just the orchestrator (not dns, usb image, packages etc)
The extreme future (probably a few months):
- Internal dropbox that syncs with s3, icloud, google cloud, you get the idea.
- AI integration with all of the existing stuff, running locally, owned by you.
The future:
- Full router with DNSBL + DHCP integration so you can keep your kids and grandparents away from nasty stuff or power your coffee shop
- Multiple IP management within a single LAN
- VPN, Wireguard, Zerotier
- ACME for locally signed CAs and certificates for your services.
More info about the upcoming release:
Dependencies are now managed, and a supervisory network manager keeps the dependencies behind the wall. More coming here.
Release-time packages to expect (and are currently being tested):
- Gitea
- Jitsi
- Mattermost
- Plex
Repositories are easy to create.
Final Note:
SOLID combines rdf with object and message storage and is probably the greatest boon to managing AI content locally ever.
Some other information about the upcoming release:
- USB size is greatly reduced while increasing in flexibility. 2.2G or so. decompression performance is tolerable even on USB A.
- the installer is pretty robust at this point -- you can configure ethernet and wifi with WPS, QR Codes, or passwords
Here's two screens of the new status display. This comes up on your VGA console, Serial Console (if desired) and through the status@town-os.local username.
Also, the ability to pull SSH keys from github was added. If keys exist, passwords are not used.
The new USB image has been slimmed and managed for both performance and size -- it's about 2.5GB right now and yes, the whole operating system ends up in memory.
A new release is probably coming in the next day or two. I found employment and am committed to the project, and a few others in the Bay Area are too.
The new image contains the new configuration program, heads up display on the console, as well as numerous fixes to packaging and performance.
New console status screen in tonight's USB release
www.youtube.com/watch?v=982F...
Sorry everything's broken. Trying to get things into a state where it's much easier to see when problems are happening, as well as slimming down the system to provide what we can provide with what the API does (fixing what needs to be fixed).
This little doohickey was whipped up in the last hour.
Latest, arriving to the curl | bash now: youtu.be/RiT2cZM_QHM?...
WPS support, wifi, qr codes are coming, RAID support, disk selection, even bootstraps over a serial console.
town-os.github.io has the latest information on the project. `curl -sSLO town-os.github.io/install.sh && bash install.sh` will get you a USB image written directly to a thumb drive.
YOU KNOW WHAT PRIVACY ADVOCATES HATE?
KNOWING YOU HAVE NONE AND BEING ABLE TO DO NOTHING ABOUT IT WITHOUT YOUR HELP
I'll be at embassy house SF tonight presenting town os depending on the hard wire situation. If not, I'll still be able to show it on my laptop (with a few caveats) for anyone interested.
Introduce yourself! I'll be the old white dude with tats
I’ll be at Funding the Commons today and the metamask hackathon.
Also, the current install script has a bug. To get around it, just download the install script and run it directly.
A graphical usb installer is coming soon.
Here's a long form video of how it works: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swq_...
