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15 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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23 <div class="title">FreedomBox milestone - all packages now in Debian Sid</div>
24 <div class="date">15th April 2014</div>
25 <div class="body"><p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">Freedombox
26 project</a> is working on providing the software and hardware to make
27 it easy for non-technical people to host their data and communication
28 at home, and being able to communicate with their friends and family
29 encrypted and away from prying eyes. It is still going strong, and
30 today a major mile stone was reached.</p>
31
32 <p>Today, the last of the packages currently used by the project to
33 created the system images were accepted into Debian Unstable. It was
34 the freedombox-setup package, which is used to configure the images
35 during build and on the first boot. Now all one need to get going is
36 the build code from the freedom-maker git repository and packages from
37 Debian. And once the freedombox-setup package enter testing, we can
38 build everything directly from Debian. :)</p>
39
40 <p>Some key packages used by Freedombox are
41 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/freedombox-setup">freedombox-setup</a>,
42 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/plinth">plinth</a>,
43 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/pagekite">pagekite</a>,
44 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/tor">tor</a>,
45 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy">privoxy</a>,
46 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/owncloud">owncloud</a> and
47 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/dnsmasq">dnsmasq</a>. There
48 are plans to integrate more packages into the setup. User
49 documentation is maintained on the Debian wiki. Please
50 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Jessie">check out
51 the manual</a> and help us improve it.</p>
52
53 <p>To test for yourself and create boot images with the FreedomBox
54 setup, run this on a Debian machine using a user with sudo rights to
55 become root:</p>
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57 <p><pre>
58 sudo apt-get install git vmdebootstrap mercurial python-docutils \
59 mktorrent extlinux virtualbox qemu-user-static binfmt-support \
60 u-boot-tools
61 git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/freedombox/freedom-maker.git \
62 freedom-maker
63 make -C freedom-maker dreamplug-image raspberry-image virtualbox-image
64 </pre></p>
65
66 <p>Root access is needed to run debootstrap and mount loopback
67 devices. See the README in the freedom-maker git repo for more
68 details on the build. If you do not want all three images, trim the
69 make line. Note that the virtualbox-image target is not really
70 virtualbox specific. It create a x86 image usable in kvm, qemu,
71 vmware and any other x86 virtual machine environment. You might need
72 the version of vmdebootstrap in Jessie to get the build working, as it
73 include fixes for a race condition with kpartx.</p>
74
75 <p>If you instead want to install using a Debian CD and the preseed
76 method, boot a Debian Wheezy ISO and use this boot argument to load
77 the preseed values:</p>
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79 <p><pre>
80 url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat</a>
81 </pre></p>
82
83 <p>I have not tested it myself the last few weeks, so I do not know if
84 it still work.</p>
85
86 <p>If you wonder how to help, one task you could look at is using
87 systemd as the boot system. It will become the default for Linux in
88 Jessie, so we need to make sure it is usable on the Freedombox. I did
89 a simple test a few weeks ago, and noticed dnsmasq failed to start
90 during boot when using systemd. I suspect there are other problems
91 too. :) To detect problems, there is a test suite included, which can
92 be run from the plinth web interface.</p>
93
94 <p>Give it a go and let us know how it goes on the mailing list, and help
95 us get the new release published. :) Please join us on
96 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC (#freedombox on
97 irc.debian.org)</a> and
98 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
99 mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p>
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