I really like Syncthing, Nextcloud, Forgejo and Mailcow to collaborate with colleagues.

Kimai allows me to track hours and get paid.

Barrier allows me to use several computers at once.

Xen Orchestra is pretty much on par with VMWare stuff and way cheaper.

What other awesome software does allow you to work more efficiently in a business context and stays out of your way?

  • methodicalaspect@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Proxmox VE makes this easy. Also makes building a cluster of such hypervisors easy. There’s a free version that gives you the entire feature set but you need to pay for support and access to the Enterprise repository.

    It’s not the only option, and it may not even be the best option, but it’s pretty damn good.

    • cooopsspace@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m not even talking about proxmox, I’m talking about straight up QEMU with virt-manager on any RHEL like distro. Better yet if you have cockpit installed.

      • methodicalaspect@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s good as well, of course. I use QEMU with virt-manager and cockpit on my office workstation running EndeavourOS and it’s glorious. Keeps Windows from ever being installed on the bare metal.

        From a usability perspective, though, I think Proxmox lowers the barrier to entry, as the web UI feels considerably more powerful out of the box than cockpit. An interesting bonus is that you can add it to an existing Debian install, including one with a DE, though it’s not something one would want to do in production.