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Cake day: Dec 05, 2023

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Thanks!

Another reason for the project was that I too wanted a desktop experience while also being being able to access remotely. I just didn’t want to open any “scary” ports on my server lol. I can throw this whole thing behind 2fa and it’s still completely isolated in a docker container, thus it has as much or as little privilege as I want.

I actually can ssh into my main server through this, if desired, without opening any ssh ports publicly.



Oh damn good call haha.

I guess I never bothered to check. I’m not married to the name so it’s no big deal really. I was initially just building this for myself without any real plan to release anything so I chose my artist/producer handle and never thought twice about it.


Decided I'd give a sneak peek at something I'm working on: Since building my home server I've constantly been on the lookout for a decent frontend to manage my files, etc. I initially tried file browser, but it was always really buggy for me, and honestly I hated it. Since my server is headless, a PiKVM and the like wouldn't really work for me the way I wanted, so I decided to just build what I was looking for on my own. And with that, I'd like to introduce: ~~redox_os~~ TBD It's an emulated OS built in react with a node+express backend. It's made to be as fully customizable as you want. You can create new "apps" for it very easily. Anything you can make in react/JavaScript can be loaded as an "app" with just a simple config file. It's still very much a work in progress, but I figured it was complete enough for a little show and tell. Current features: - a desktop with icons/etc - a file browser - text editor (complete with syntax highlighting) - a full featured terminal - a picture viewer - a music player - a video player (capable of live-transcoding to an html5 compatible format) - a file downloader (for downloading files to the server from the web) - full drag and drop capabilities (even drop files from outside your browser to upload) - downloading files from the server to local - full mobile/touch support I'm also still very much deciding how to handle the release. It's mostly functional already, but I'd really want it to be polished before a proper release. Since I also have a full time job, that may take a while. Contributors would definitely help, but I'm also a little split on whether I should make if FOSS. I'm definitely leaning so, but idk. Definitely open to any feedback, suggestions, criticism, etc. Edit: Thanks to everyone for the feedback! Looks like I'll definitely be going FOSS. Also I'll be changing the name 😄 Not sure what to call it now though. Maybe reDOS? Lol I still wanna tidy everything up a bit before making the code public. Maybe go back and start adding some comments/documentation as currently there is none. I'm really terrible about that. Also definitely a bit shy to open up my code to public scrutiny haha. I'm sure there are plenty of mistakes and bad practices.
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