CasaOS

In last week's GitHub Trending: SimpleX (a messenger that assigns no user identifiers at all, for the privacy-maximalist crowd), CasaOS (a home-server OS that turns a spare box into a personal cloud), Plane (a self-hosted Jira and Linear alternative), and free-for-dev (a directory of free SaaS tiers).

The list sells digital independence. But its second-biggest gainer, CasaOS, hasn't merged a commit in nearly a year, and its own issue tracker is openly asking whether the project is dead.

Today's GitHub Trending skips the usual new-AI-launch churn for software you run on your own hardware: n8n (self-hosted workflow automation), NocoDB (an Airtable you host over your own database), and CasaOS (a one-click home-cloud dashboard), all deployed by the same Docker Compose file.

The catch the threads keep naming: two of them quietly swapped real open-source licenses for "fair-code", and n8n is mid-patch on a 10.0-severity bug that let anyone take over a self-hosted box.