☂️ Arkan's Infrastructure Operations Labs

"Infrastructure for a self-sustaining digital community, built on privacy, open source, and resilience."


What is AIOL?

AIOL is not a single project — it is an umbrella for a set of interconnected initiatives by Arkan Fakoseh (@2kfi), a 17-year-old developer from Al-Karak, Jordan.

The vision is simple but ambitious: build technology and physical infrastructure that gives people real ownership of their digital and physical lives — locally hosted, privacy-first, resilient even when the internet goes down, and affordable enough to be used by real families in Jordan and beyond.


Projects

🐧 Mada Linux — مدى لينكس

An Arch Linux-based distribution designed to make Linux accessible to Arabic-speaking users and anyone transitioning from Windows.

Five flavours:

Key goals:

Mada-Linux Github Page


🩺 Hakeem — حكيم

A local-first AI health system in two editions:

Hakeem Home

A personal health and wellness AI assistant for everyday users.

Hakeem Enterprise

A clinical-grade AI system built for healthcare professionals in Jordan and the region.

Core principle: Local first. Works in a blackout. Works without the internet. Works when it matters most.

Hakeem Github Page


⭐ Najim — نجم

Your private, local AI assistant for the home — and eventually the main AI brain of the AIOL ecosystem.

Think: Alexa or Google Home, but you own it completely.

Najm may eventually evolve into the unified AI layer powering both Hakeem Home and the AIOL neighborhood infrastructure.

(Coming soon)


🏘️ AIOL Neighborhood — حي أي آي أو إل

The most ambitious project of all: a real, physical neighborhood in Al-Karak, Jordan.

The Land

200 dunums (about 50 acres or 20000 square meters) of land, with 60 dunums dedicated to shared infrastructure:

This is infrastructure that simply doesn't exist in most of Al-Karak today — built right, built to last.

The Community

The Network

The Philosophy

This isn't a smart city. It's a resilient community — one that could survive World War 3 as long as the electricity is on.


Utilities & Tools

📦 pacman-local-mirror

A lightweight local repository manager for Arch Linux. Perfect for air-gapped setups or slow connections.

pacman-local-mirror Github Page


The Stack

Layer Technology
OS Base Arch Linux
Containerization Docker / Podman
Home Automation Home Assistant
AI Runtime Local LLMs (Ollama / Llama.CPP / custom)
Frontend TypeScript / Web UI
Scripting Bash / Python
Game Engine Godot
Networking OpenWrt, managed switches

Principles

  1. Local first — if it needs the cloud to work, it doesn't belong here
  2. Privacy by design — your data stays on your hardware
  3. Affordable — built for real people in Jordan, not Silicon Valley budgets
  4. Resilient — works when the power grid fluctuates, the internet cuts out, or worse
  5. Arabic-native — not an afterthought, built in from day one
  6. Legacy — built to last beyond its creator

About the Builder

Arkan Fakoseh — 17 years old, Al-Karak, Jordan.

Homelabber, overthinker, FOSS advocate. Started using Linux at 14, and too many side projects for a Tawjihi student.