Oku is under active development and is not yet ready for production use. Please consider contributing to its development.
Who are you? What is this?
My name is Emil. Inspired by the IndieWeb movement, I decided to create Oku with the hope that it’d enable an alternative to the Web where people own both their data and their space online. The best way to ‘rewild the Internet’ is by making it easier than ever to contribute to it.
Does this have anything to do with cryptocurrencies or ‘blockchain’?
No.
Is the Oku browser ready to be my default browser? Can Oku nodes be deployed in production?
No. Oku is still actively in development.
Is this a derivative of Google Chrome?
No. The Oku browser uses WebKit, the same browser engine found in Safari.
What platforms does Oku support?
Currently, the Oku browser is only available on operating systems using the Linux kernel.
The Oku network may be accessed via a command-line frontend, available on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Where can I learn more about the network protocol?
To learn more about the network protocol, visit the code repository.
How can I help? What still needs to be worked on?
Please see the contribution page.
I found a security vulnerability. How do I report this? Do you do bug bounties?
Please refer to the security policy for up-to-date reporting guidelines.
Unfortunately, I cannot offer financial rewards for reporting security vulnerabilities, as I lack the funds.
How does this compare to Beaker Browser?
Beaker Browser was a Chromium-based Web browser that incorporated the Dat protocol with the primary aim of enabling peer-to-peer static site sharing. To this end, Oku is similar; in fact, Beaker Browser was part of the inspiration to create Oku. The two projects diverge in their long-term ambitions, however. Oku is concerned with:
What does the name mean?
‘Oku’ is a place that poet Matsuo Bashō arrived at after a long journey. It was simply a name I’d stumbled upon when beginning development on the browser. The name itself does not carry much personal significance; if it has any problematic associations I’m unaware of, please let me know and I will rename the project.