I am building Sovereign Stack (ss-nas), an AGPLv3-licensed NAS operating system designed to strip away the bloated, black-box abstractions of proprietary storage appliances.

We are directly tackling the OS-specific friction that plagues mixed-device networks: the AppleDouble plague and SMB disconnects on macOS, the lack of native NFSv4+/OIDC integration on Linux, and legacy SMB vulnerabilities on Windows. Our goal is absolute cross-platform parity. We want macOS, Linux, and Windows to have the same frictionless, first-class experience delivering pure performance at your fingertips, but without the walled garden.

Phase 0 is a pure, transparent data fabric running on Debian, ZFS, Docker/LXD, and Kanidm (for Zero-Trust SSO).

To eliminate manual container networking and volume mapping, we have built 'ss-appforce' a workload orchestrator that drops containerized apps safely at the edge, automatically inheriting unified identity and integrating directly with your mesh storage boundaries.

In upcoming releases, we are adding: 1. ss-storage: Eliminating single points of failure by distributing local storage transparently across multiple NAS nodes (NVMe and HDD tiers) as a unified fabric. 2. ss-bridge: Bridging the protocol divide to make OneDrive, Dropbox, and your local NAS storage behave exactly the same way, feeling completely native to your OS.

We are not launching on GitHub; the source lives on our own instance at https://pgit.sovereignstack.dev. I am looking for 5 hands-on alpha testers who want source code access to tinker, break things, and stress-test the ZFS-Managed NFS core before our Phase 0 release.

If you want bare-metal control that actually respects your hardware, you can request access directly at https://sovereignstack.dev, or just let me know below and I will get you set up.