Comment by kassner
1 day ago
What does “OS” in the name stands for? My first thought was “Operating System”, but that doesn’t make sense when what they are providing is a server via a docker container. No one says they installed the Elastic OS…
Ubiquiti themselves call it “software package”:
> Self‑hosted software package that delivers UniFi Network [1]
My second thought was “Open Source”, but the absence of comments complaining about the license make me believe it isn’t this.
Any guesses?
They've borrowed the name from the CloudKey/Dream Machine to make it clear that this will have parity, instead of what we had previously where you could only run some of the apps in isolation that would normally be bundled in the full system image for the CloudKey.
My guess actually is "Operating System", because this piece of software is required* for operating all your UniFi devices (central management).
* Required if not each should be a standalone, some devices won't work without UniFi OS AFAIK.