NEXTCLOUD Host Nextcloud 20 on a Raspberry Pi
Nary an issue of Linux Format goes by without us mentioning Nextcloud, the open source private cloud. And that’s because it’s fantastic, and there’s a lot that you can do with it. Now Nextcloud 20 is here and we’re going to talk about it again.
Out of the box it makes it possible for you to securely host your own Dropbox-like storage for you and your friends’ files and photos. Even better, it’s light enough that you can comfortably provide for a handful of users (as long as they don’t all use it at the same time) on a Raspberry Pi 3.
There are FOSS mobile applications, a desktop client and a lovely web interface, so accessing and synchronising your data is easy. Add the News app and you’ll finally solve the problem of how best to collate your RSS feeds since expired, Odin rest its soul. Add the app in case goes the same way. If you’re willing to brave some extra configuration (and perhaps some beefier hosting), you can access a collaborative, web-based install in the form of Collabora Online Development Edition. The latest incarnation of Nextcloud brings yet more collaboration tools and further develops its federation features, whereby users of different Nextcloud instances can interact with one another.
