On Proxmox free software

Insights and guides

The site has now turned out to live on as a stash of notes and observations, some of which you might find useful:

Insights
Assorted posts on under-the-hood aspects of user-level-only documented features.
Guides
Collection of instructables, some of which aspire to be full-fledged walkthroughs.

No-subscription setup tool for Proxmox VE/BS/MG

No more post-install chores. Sets up no-subscription repositories, removes the marketing-laden warnings as well as the pesky “No valid subscription” notice, also dubbed as a nag. Enjoy the freedom of free software.

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Proxmox and free software

These pages once started with a single snippet post on NO subscription notice removal in a reaction to censorship of the official channels.   This was despite the supposedly free license having been chosen for the product itself - Proxmox VE can be legitimately obtained by any user under the AGPL license   - a choice Proxmox have made themselves.

The original post - alongside all the others - are now here to bring up the awareness of the meaning of “free” in “free software” - the freedom to modify a piece of software, amongst others.

As for the other meaning of “free”, please consider that as a non-commercial user, you already support Proxmox by running off the no-subscription repository, a pre-production environment where any bugs you help identify early offload their own Quality Assurance workload. This way, you also help Proxmox keep their suite free of charge.