At Wilde IT, we ❤ Open Source Software, and try our upmost to be a part of, offer advice to and contribute to the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community.
On many occasions, we have found FOSS products to be more secure,
flexible and reliable than their "Big Tech" counterparts.
But don't take just our word for it, our friends at Tutanota agree! Read their article here
Because of this, we can offer a much, much, broader service than off-the-shelf alternatives allowing for a more suitable, modern and dynamic solution.
Here are some of the FOSS systems and products we ❤ to use :
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.
A fast, lightweight, privacy-focused browser from Mozilla.
A web browser that's modern, fast and secure. Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge are built on top of Chromium.
A hyperextensible Vim-based text editor
A suite of Office applications where you can create documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
Arch Linux is a bleeding edge Linux distribution with up to date features.
We use Arch Linux by the way...
The "Universal Operating System". A Linux distribution built for its rock solid reliability.
LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition). A great, user-friendly, Linux distribution. We recommend this for entry Linux users, but is often used by those with experience too!
An Operating System used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms. Robust and quick.
The "Universal Operating System". A Linux distribution built for its rock solid reliability. We use it often for ultra-reliable servers.
OPNsense is an open source, feature rich firewall and routing platform with cutting-edge network protection.
A reliable, high performance TCP/HTTP load balancer user by some of the bigger online businesses in the world
A web server providing a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.
A web server designed for maximum performance and stability. Also used for proxying, caching and load balancing.
A statically typed compiled systems programming language combining concepts from mature languages
Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.
A blazingly fast and memory-efficient programming language for power performance critical services.
An open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.
An interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language great for Rapid Application Development.
An extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography.
A secure private VPN service used for remote access to sensitive internal resources
A nonprofit Certificate Authority providing TLS certificates to websites throughout the world.
A zero-dependency Static Site Generator written using Rust.
One of the most popular open-source static site generators. Light, efficient, and quick - a great, fun, way to build websites.
An open-source system for automating deployment and management of containerized applications on FreeBSD.
A daemonless container engine for developing, managing, and running OCI Containers. Like Docker, but more secure.
A Deduplicating backup tool with compression and encryption.
A modern backup program that can backup your files to many different storage types securely.
A simple, portable orchestration tool for the Borg Backup and Restic utilities.
Created by Paul Wilde!
The Fediverse is not one website or service, but instead a collection of community-owned, decentralised and privacy centric social networks.
A lightweight, customizable and safety-focused entryway to the Fediverse.
A Fediverse social network software, capable of interacting with other ActivityPub servers.
A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub server instance.
The universal messaging standard Tried and tested. Independent. Privacy-focused.
An open network for secure, decentralized communication. Self-hosted node which can communicate with other nodes around the world.
A simple, secure, private chat service using the XMPP protocol.
A lightweight, self-hosted software forge. Easy to install and low maintenance. It just does the job.
An open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting.
A hybrid cloud object storage platform. We use this in combination with Duplicati and it's works fantastically well!
A self-hosted collaboration service providing file synchonrisation and sharing, web meetings, calendars, contacts, etc.
A volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server.
A powerful, open source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development.
One of the most popular relational databases (RDBMS) built upon the values of performance, stability, and openness.
A document database with the scalability and flexibility that you want with the querying and indexing that you need
Here's some of our Open Source friends. These teams publish versions of some of the above software products to the community, and anyone is welcome to use them. Please see their websites (click below) for more information.
Codeberg is a collaboration platform and Git hosting for free and open source software, content and projects.
Simple and Secure Offsite Backups. Hosting for Borg and Restic Repositories.
Information regarding the end of Windows 10 support and what you can do about it.
@Stux administers the mstdn.social Mastodon instance. A popular instance of the Mastodon software which anyone is free to join.
Tutanota is the world's most secure email service, easy to use and private by design. You get fully encrypted calendars and contacts with all our personal and business email accounts.
