Community

Free to start. Stay for as long as it works for you.

Every DEC-LLC core product has a Community Edition: free forever, the same security hardening and updates as the paid editions, sized for smaller fleets and homelabs. Plus a growing collection of open-source tools and a forum-based support community. No credit card, no trial timer, no "schedule a demo" gate.

What's on this page

Three ways to get value from DEC-LLC without paying anything.

1. Community Editions

Free tier of each Core Four product, with registration. Monitor a small fleet in production or run a full lab.

2. Open Source Projects

Apache-2.0 tools on GitHub — no account, no download form, fork or file an issue.

3. Forums & Community Support

Ask questions, share setups, get answers from the DEC-LLC team and other users at portal.dec-llc.biz.

Register once. Download anything.

One account on portal.dec-llc.biz unlocks every Community Edition, forum posting, issue tracking, and update notifications. No credit card, no hidden trial clock, no sales follow-up unless you ask for it.

We'll email the download links and your portal login right after you submit.

One registration covers all Community downloads. You do not need a separate account per product.

Community Editions of the Core Four

Each Community Edition is the full product, with the same hardening, updates, and open-source foundation as the paid editions — just sized for smaller fleets. Free forever with registration. Upgrade when you outgrow the fleet limits; keep using it if you don't.

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DEC OpenUTM — Community

Firewall / UTM for homelabs and small sites
  • Full UTM appliance — edge routing, VPN, DNS/DHCP, IDS/IPS, WAF
  • Single-appliance deployment (no HA pairing at this tier)
  • Throughput: 2 Gbps capable
  • Same security updates as paid editions
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DEC IVMIA — Community

Virtualization inventory & workload management
  • Up to 5 hypervisor hosts, 4 platforms
  • Monitor-only (no orchestration / migration at this tier)
  • Unified inventory across libvirt/KVM, Proxmox, ESXi, Hyper-V, Docker, Podman, Kubernetes
  • Free forever with registration
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DEC NIVMIA — Community

Multi-vendor network inventory & config vault
  • Up to 10 devices across 7 vendor platforms
  • Monitor-only (no orchestration / migration at this tier)
  • Nightly config capture and git-tracked config vault
  • Free forever with registration
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DEC VaultSync — Community

Backup & restore for small fleets
  • Scheduled encrypted backups with the same encryption as paid editions
  • Small-fleet scope — suits a homelab or a handful of workloads
  • Cross-platform restore is a Professional-tier capability (see editions page)
  • Free forever with registration
Register for Community Access

What you get when you register

Registration is free and creates a single account that works across the editions, the forums, and the update channels.

Community Edition downloads

Access to the latest Community Edition ISOs / installers for every Core Four product. Same update channel as the paid editions.

Portal account

Single sign-on across portal.dec-llc.biz: forums, downloads, issue tracker, release notes, and security advisories.

Forum access

Per-product forums for questions, setup help, feature discussion, and how-tos. Read without registration; post once you've registered.

Security & update notifications

Optional email notifications for security advisories and stable-release announcements for the products you use. Unsubscribe anytime.

Bug reports & feature requests

File issues against any DEC-LLC product, track their status, and see what the team is working on next.

No sales follow-up by default

Community registration does not trigger sales outreach. If you want to talk to us about a paid edition, there's a box to check. Unchecked — you won't hear from sales.

Open Source Projects

Separate from the Community Editions above, these are standalone Apache-2.0 tools we publish for the community. No DEC-LLC account required — they live on GitHub.

CAAN System Tools

Guided network configuration — bonding, virtual switches, VPNs, routing — explained step by step.

Details →

Mail Archiver

Self-hosted email archive for Gmail, iCloud, Outlook, Yahoo, and any IMAP server. Windows / Linux / NAS.

GitHub →

git-advanced-multisync

Provider-neutral multi-account Git sync across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and self-hosted instances.

GitHub →

tMUG

Tailscale Multiplatform User GUI. Connect, disconnect, manage exit nodes without CLI.

GitHub →

smokeping-webadmin

Web-based admin interface for SmokePing network latency monitoring.

GitHub →
See the full open-source catalog →

Forums & community support

The DEC-LLC community forums live at portal.dec-llc.biz. They're the first place to ask a question, share a setup, report a bug informally, or read what other operators have already worked out.

Per-product forums

Separate spaces for OpenUTM, IVMIA, NIVMIA, VaultSync, SDNS, plugins, and open-source projects.

Setup & how-to

Configuration walkthroughs, integration recipes, and first-deployment questions. Answered by DEC-LLC engineers and fellow users.

Feature discussion

Talk through proposals before they become issues. Roadmap items posted by the team are open for comment.

Reading & search

Browse and search without an account. Register only when you want to post, subscribe, or file an issue.

Community forums are best-effort support, primarily peer-to-peer. Paid editions include direct support channels with SLAs — see the per-product editions pages for details.

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Community-grade infrastructure, no strings.

Free editions of every core product. Open-source tools on GitHub. Forums staffed by the same team that builds the software. Start when you want, grow when it makes sense, or keep using the free tier as long as it fits.

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