Turn the box in your closet into an AI node.
That off-lease Dell, the tower gathering dust, the old ThinkPad, the 2019 MacBook Apple stopped supporting — each of them is one flash away from being a private AI node that pays for itself in canceled cloud subscriptions.
Why homelabs and agentic AI belong together.
Cloud AI is a subscription tax.
Every seat, every prompt, every context window — priced by the month or the token. Your homelab already has idle CPU + RAM you're paying electricity on.
Old hardware is capable, not obsolete.
16 GB of RAM runs a 7B model comfortably. A used GPU or a fat server runs 30B. The bottleneck for agentic workflows isn't compute — it's how fast you can spin one up.
The setup keeps you off the bench.
Arch + Hyprland + Ollama + Wayland desktop + hardware quirks — that's a Saturday. A Sunday if your target box is a 2018 MacBook.
What vinOS turns your closet into.
One ISO, any x86_64.
Flash to USB, boot, install. Same fifteen-minute experience on a Framework, a Dell PowerEdge, or a 2019 MacBook.
linux-t2baked in — T2 Intel Macs work on first boot.Ollama, ready.
Install the
aibundle once. Every model you pull lives on your disk, serves on your LAN, answers to your agents. Kill the internet — it still works.Fleet-shaped from day one.
Every node runs the same overlay. Deploy vinOS on the laptop as your cockpit, on the tower as a compute node, on the Dell as a headless model server. Same commands everywhere.
Yours to keep.
MIT licensed. Zero telemetry. Every driver decision, every service, every keybinding — a shell script you can read. Leave any time; nothing follows you.
vinos-doctor green across the board.Bring the box back to life.
Free, MIT-licensed, offline-capable. Flash a USB, boot the target, tell us what worked and what didn't — every hardware report widens the compatibility matrix.