A 23-year-old university student's Raspberry Pi Open source project

For most people, the closure of Google's readers is a pain in the Bu Cook, but for Jacob Cook, a college student, it is an opportunity for ambition. He has developed an operating system called "Arkos", claiming to replace all services offered by Google or other cloud companies, including basic services such as running e-mail, chatting, file sharing, virtual hosting, and so on, through a private server with a credit card size.

Arkos is a Linux-based server operating system that runs on a small, Raspberry Pi hardware that is expected to run on a BeagleBoard board or even a full-size PC in the future. , the Raspberry Pi top is the open source application Genesis, which provides a web interface to control the operation of the server, all files in the Genesis application are also available on GitHub, and users can download and install them themselves. However, Arkos is still a pre-project, and it is not recommended to be used in important projects for the time being.

(Small raspberry Pi hardware)

An open-source project for a 23-year-old university student Google wants to get the finger

There are similar products on the market, such as Pogoplug, but Pogoplug can only manage its own files and not provide a comprehensive set of Internet services such as chat, website hosting, e-mail, etc. Arkos can provide these services, allowing control of any other resource within a customizable security level. As well as the more famous tails, it is also based on the Linux version of the operating system, but it can only provide a desktop operating environment, and Arkos is a server. However, if the data is hosted on Arkos and then accessed through the tails system of other computers, it is a perfect combination.

(Jacob Cook)

An open-source project for a 23-year-old university student Google wants to get the finger

The project's developer, Cook, a 23-year-old college student, said Google's services in the Web are really powerful, but their performance is becoming more worrying, with Google closing the reader earlier this year, which means that, in the absence of sufficient benefits, no functional services are sacred, We are too dependent on others for service. In fact, Google services are not long-term reliable, and once they feel no business interest, they can shut down any application or any product on the shelf at any time. In addition, the "Prism Door" event is also a big driver of the Cook's Arkos project, if the NSA can arbitrarily crawl data from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, AOL (US online), Twitter, users are tantamount to "naked" online, and who can believe. Apparently, Cook chose to believe in himself.

However, Arkos has potential limitations, and most home internet service providers optimize their services to improve download speed, so users can simply watch the video at home. But Arkos if you host a large media library, it will be slower when accessed outdoors. Cook tries to run the Arkos data center through remote hosting, enabling the same Web interface operation, allowing users to control themselves.

Cook is very interested in computer security, Arkos is his experience as a Linux hacker and it administrator. He admits that he does not have deep knowledge of cryptography, but his intention is not to create a new encryption system, so the problem is not big. He also invited other enthusiasts to carry out the development project, but apparently he was a soul figure.

Maybe he's just a young yard farmer, but Linus Torvalds (Linus Torvalds, the world's most famous computer programmer) Once was a lonely coder.

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A 23-year-old university student's Raspberry Pi Open source project