Hi everyone! I am here to share 3 add-ons that I wrote because they weren’t available elsewhere. Here is a brief explanation of why I needed them (and you might too). You can view the repo here.
- I was looking for a remote desktop access server, and tried using the Apache Guacamole add-on from Alex Belgium’s repo. However, it was too large in size, had excess functionality, and required the RDP/VNC servers to be accessible to the internet (downside of clientless remote access). So, I got to know about MeshCentral. It works very well with Windows RDP, and even has web sockets support. For VNC, it was kind of difficult to setup for a headless setup, but works well thereafter. On Archlinux, the key was to use x11vnc, rather than TigerVNC. The total image size ~600MB, which is much smaller than Apache Guacamole.
- Grav is basically a light-weight content management system (CMS). I wanted an alternate to bookstack for writing stuff that doesn’t belong to a lengthy topic. It also supports multi-site setup (you can have 2 sub-domains pointing to the same service, and get different websites). Image size ~ 160MB, RAM use ~100MB.
- BentoPDF - This is a great website that provides a LOT of PDF tools, which run on the browser, rather than the server. It is under very active development. All the tools are also available on their official website, but the self-hosted version is able to strip off the branding (a bit more user friendly). Image size ~430MB, CPU & RAM usage very low.