Debian
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The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we have created is called Debian.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Self-Hosted
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Europe’s Open-Source Solutions: Your Guide to Transparent, Independent and GDPR-Aligned Software.
This guide is designed for anyone looking to take greater control of their digital life by choosing open-source solutions developed and maintained within Europe. It highlights projects that promote transparency, reduce reliance on non-European tech ecosystems, and align with Europe’s strong commitment to privacy and data protection. The goal is to support digital autonomy in Europe while uplifting the local developers and communities who build trustworthy, user-centric software.
Selfhosting
Selfhosting is where you're hosting your own websites, apps, software, tools, and much more on your own server instead of having to rely on 3rd-party cloud providers such as Hetzner. Taking this approach to hosting gives you more control over your data and how your server or servers are managed.
When you are running multiple things on one or two servers, within your home, it's called a "Homelab" and you're "Homelabbing" at that point.
Running your own server and homelab within your home is great for privacy-conscious individuals such as myself, tech enthusiasts, small businesses, and those seeking more control of their digital life.
The following lists provided here are applications and software I've gotten comfortable with and enjoyed using over the past 3 and a half years since I started homelabbing, it's based on my experience and what fits my criteria. Some well known softwares won't be listed here, as my experience may of not been at best with them.
My criteria is that software is built in the open, respects user privacy and security, should not require a license to operate, and don't contain profanity and other minor things.
I'm also willing to test new software to selfhost, feel free to comment or message me to try out other alternatives.
There are other places to check out as well for those interesting selfhosting, such as Awesome Selfhosted, selfh.st, and other places you can find on the internet.
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin
https://github.com/veggiemonk/awesome-docker
If you ever need help with selfhosting, you can check out the following communities:
Homelab Community on Fluxer, I personally run
/r/selfhosted (Reddit)
/c/selfhosted (Lemmy / Fediverse)
There's also a wiki you can look into as well.
If you believe an alternative software should be added to this list, please contact me or direct message via my AlternativeTo account. I'm also available on Signal.
This lists gets updated every month at least, check back regularly.
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In this list I bring you a variety of alternative software to those from Microsoft, and also that these free and open source programs
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(I will be updating it every day)
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Comments and Reviews
Debian is super stable and highly customizable. If you want a Linux distribution that provides guaranteed stability and a great community, you should check out Debian.
Debian is currently a truly universal GNU/Linux Operating System, however for more advanced users. It is rock stable, it has excellent hardware compatibility (free and non-free) and very vast software repositories.
My second choice distro for both desktop and servers. More reliable than Ubuntu, more stable than Fedora, easier to install than Arch, though a bit slower to update. Bigger than Alpine, but uses the more typical glibc. Runs on just about any architecture.
I like Debian Testing to run Apache Web servers.
I started with Ubuntu in 2009, and I tried various Debian derivatives, before switching to their mother distro! Over the years the installer has improved: very easy to use! I even use it on an old 32-bit laptop born with Windows XP... and it still works! You can install it practically everywhere! Its official software park (so without third-party repositories, such as AUR for Arch Linux) is the largest of all! I have been on the Testing/Unstable branch for almost ten years, and in the meantime I had the opportunity to do distro hopping to experiment with other package managers on other base distributions, such as Fedora, Arch Linux and Gentoo. No way, APT is very simple, and Synaptics has no equal among graphical frontends. If hundreds of distributions use Debian or one of its derivatives, the reason is clear: Debian is a guarantee of stability and reliability... and I who use development branches, I can guarantee that certain packages have nothing to envy to those of Arch Linux, in terms of updates. Stable is not for me, I like to experiment, and with Debian Testing/Unstable I never get bored.
Personally, i have never used plain Debian. It looks nice, though. Its the foundation for Ubuntu as well.
Stable and secure. My recommendation for anyone new to Linux.
A bit bloated, but I guess you could technically do a net install and replace things like systemd with runit.