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@@ -2,36 +2,39 @@ Title: Freedombox on Dreamplug, Raspberry Pi and virtual x86 machine
 Tags: english, debian, freedombox, surveillance, web, sikkerhet
 Date: 2014-03-14 11:00
 
-<p>The <a href="http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox
-project</a> is working on to providing the software and hardware for
+<p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">Freedombox
+project</a> is working on providing the software and hardware for
 making it easy for non-technical people to host their data and
 communication at home, and being able to communicate with their
 friends and family encrypted and away from prying eyes.  It has been
 going on for a while, and is slowly progressing towards a new test
-release (0.2).  And what day could be better than the Pi day to
-announce that the new version will provide "hard drive" images for
+release (0.2).</p>
+
+<p>And what day could be better than the Pi day to announce that the
+new version will provide "hard drive" / SD card / USB stick images for
 Dreamplug, Raspberry Pi and VirtualBox (or any other virtualization
 system), and can also be installed using a Debian installer preseed
 file.  The Debian based Freedombox is now based on Debian Jessie,
 where most of the needed packages used are already present.  Only one,
 the freedombox-setup package, is missing.  To try to build your own
 boot image to test the current status, fetch the freedom-maker scripts
-and build using <a
-href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/vmdebootstrap">vmdebootstrap</a>
+and build using
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/vmdebootstrap">vmdebootstrap</a>
 with a user with sudo access to become root:
 
 <pre>
-apt-get install git vmdebootstrap mercurial python-docutils \
-  mktorrent extlinux virtualbox qemu-user-static binfmt-support \
-  u-boot-tools
 git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/freedombox/freedom-maker.git \
   freedom-maker
+sudo apt-get install git vmdebootstrap mercurial python-docutils \
+  mktorrent extlinux virtualbox qemu-user-static binfmt-support \
+  u-boot-tools
 make -C freedom-maker dreamplug-image raspberry-image virtualbox-image
 </pre>
 
-<p>See the README for more details on the build. If you do not want
-all three images, trim the make line.  But note that thanks to
-<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/741407">a race condition in
+<p>Root access is needed to run debootstrap and mount loopback
+devices.  See the README for more details on the build. If you do not
+want all three images, trim the make line.  But note that thanks to <a
+href="https://bugs.debian.org/741407">a race condition in
 vmdebootstrap</a>, the build might fail without the patch to the
 kpartx call.</p>
 
@@ -50,7 +53,7 @@ currently hang while setting up APT sources.  Killing the
 installation will get the installation going.  This affect all
 installations in Jessie, and I expect it will be fixed soon.</p>
 
-Give it a go and let us know how it goes on the mailing list, and help
+<p>Give it a go and let us know how it goes on the mailing list, and help
 us get the new release published. :) Please join us on
 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC (#freedombox on
 irc.debian.org)</a> and