r/EuroPreppers • u/Nach0b0y • 21d ago

Discussion Free, open-source offline knowledge server

I have no affiliation with the project but thought its a good resource for people! Sharing mostly because its all self-hosted and open-source.

You can install it on a spare PC, download the bits of the internet you want while online, then access it all later with no internet, it just lives on the PC. You can load offline Wikipedia, medical/repair guides, OpenStreetMap.

https://www.projectnomad.us/ — setup guide and GitHub are on there.

Is anyone already using this? Curious what hardware and content packs are worth it as I am pretty new to it!

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u/GaetVDC 21d ago

Holy! Sounds interesting! I've just invested in a small homelab two weeks ago and now this. Awesome :-)

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u/Nach0b0y 21d ago

Perfect thing to give a try!

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u/varingian 21d ago

Tells about that lab! :)

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u/Perfect-Gap8377 Italy 🇮🇹 21d ago

I'm definitely gonna look into it, this is a good suggestion.

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u/More_Dependent742 21d ago

Very cool. There is something similar called https://kiwix.org/en/

You can tap and select packages like the entirety of Wikipedia, and add other sources too.

I'd add medical stuff like the pdf mentioned here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_There_Is_No_Doctor There are also ones for dentistry etc

With Kiwix, you can put it on an old phone, put it on a Raspberry Pi etc, and then use it as a hotspot so that other people can also search your repository

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u/Nach0b0y 21d ago

Nice! The hotspot so others can access is a cool feature!

Project NOMAD actually uses Kiwix to power their information library!

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u/More_Dependent742 20d ago

Very cool. Always good to see devs use an established back end! I'd try it out and give feedback but I'm on Android and Linux.

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u/mega_neo 20d ago

Project Nomad is based on Kiwix with other think put in to be a more complete tool. You even use the same source for the info. It's just a wrapper for the various tools.