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23 <div class=
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"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Browser_plugin_for_SPICE__spice_xpi__uploaded_to_Debian.html">Browser plugin for SPICE (spice-xpi) uploaded to Debian
</a></div>
24 <div class=
"date"> 1st November
2013</div>
25 <div class=
"body"><p><a href=
"http://www.spice-space.org/">The SPICE protocol
</a> for
26 remote display access is the preferred solution with oVirt and RedHat
27 Enterprise Virtualization, and I was sad to discover the other day
28 that the browser plugin needed to use these systems seamlessly was
29 missing in Debian. The
<a href=
"http://bugs.debian.org/668284">request
30 for a package
</a> was from
2012-
04-
10 with no progress since
31 2013-
04-
01, so I decided to wrap up a package based on the great work
32 from Cajus Pollmeier and put it in a collab-maint maintained git
33 repository to get a package I could use. I would very much like
34 others to help me maintain the package (or just take over, I do not
35 mind), but as no-one had volunteered so far, I just uploaded it to
36 NEW. I hope it will be available in Debian in a few days.
</p>
38 <p>The source is now available from
39 <a href=
"http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/spice-xpi.git;a=summary">http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/spice-xpi.git;a=summary
</a>.
</p>
44 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>.
49 <div class=
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52 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Teaching_vmdebootstrap_to_create_Raspberry_Pi_SD_card_images.html">Teaching vmdebootstrap to create Raspberry Pi SD card images
</a></div>
53 <div class=
"date">27th October
2013</div>
54 <div class=
"body"><p>The
55 <a href=
"http://packages.qa.debian.org/v/vmdebootstrap.html">vmdebootstrap
</a>
56 program is a a very nice system to create virtual machine images. It
57 create a image file, add a partition table, mount it and run
58 debootstrap in the mounted directory to create a Debian system on a
59 stick. Yesterday, I decided to try to teach it how to make images for
60 <a href=
"https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi">Raspberry Pi
</a>, as part
61 of a plan to simplify the build system for
62 <a href=
"https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">the FreedomBox
63 project
</a>. The FreedomBox project already uses vmdebootstrap for
64 the virtualbox images, but its current build system made multistrap
65 based system for Dreamplug images, and it is lacking support for
68 <p>Armed with the knowledge on how to build "foreign" (aka non-native
69 architecture) chroots for Raspberry Pi, I dived into the vmdebootstrap
70 code and adjusted it to be able to build armel images on my amd64
71 Debian laptop. I ended up giving vmdebootstrap five new options,
72 allowing me to replicate the image creation process I use to make
73 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Raspberry_Pi_based_batman_adv_Mesh_network_node.html">Debian
74 Jessie based mesh node images for the Raspberry Pi
</a>. First, the
75 <tt>--foreign /path/to/binfm_handler
</tt> option tell vmdebootstrap to
76 call debootstrap with --foreign and to copy the handler into the
77 generated chroot before running the second stage. This allow
78 vmdebootstrap to create armel images on an amd64 host. Next I added
79 two new options
<tt>--bootsize size
</tt> and
<tt>--boottype
80 fstype
</tt> to teach it to create a separate /boot/ partition with the
81 given file system type, allowing me to create an image with a vfat
82 partition for the /boot/ stuff. I also added a
<tt>--variant
83 variant
</tt> option to allow me to create smaller images without the
84 Debian base system packages installed. Finally, I added an option
85 <tt>--no-extlinux
</tt> to tell vmdebootstrap to not install extlinux
86 as a boot loader. It is not needed on the Raspberry Pi and probably
87 most other non-x86 architectures. The changes were accepted by the
88 upstream author of vmdebootstrap yesterday and today, and is now
90 <a href=
"http://git.liw.fi/cgi-bin/cgit/cgit.cgi/vmdebootstrap/">the
91 upstream project page
</a>.
</p>
93 <p>To use it to build a Raspberry Pi image using Debian Jessie, first
94 create a small script (the customize script) to add the non-free
95 binary blob needed to boot the Raspberry Pi and the APT source
100 set -e # Exit on first error
103 cat
<<EOF
> etc/apt/sources.list
104 deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
106 # Install non-free binary blob needed to boot Raspberry Pi. This
107 # install a kernel somewhere too.
108 wget https://raw.github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update/master/rpi-update \
109 -O $rootdir/usr/bin/rpi-update
110 chmod a+x $rootdir/usr/bin/rpi-update
111 mkdir -p $rootdir/lib/modules
112 touch $rootdir/boot/start.elf
113 chroot $rootdir rpi-update
116 <p>Next, fetch the latest vmdebootstrap script and call it like this
117 to build the image:
</p>
120 sudo ./vmdebootstrap \
123 --distribution jessie \
124 --mirror http://http.debian.net/debian \
133 --root-password raspberry \
134 --hostname raspberrypi \
135 --foreign /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static \
136 --customize `pwd`/customize \
140 --package ca-certificates \
145 <p>The list of packages being installed are the ones needed by
146 rpi-update to make the image bootable on the Raspberry Pi, with the
147 exception of netbase, which is needed by debootstrap to find
148 /etc/hosts with the minbase variant. I really wish there was a way to
149 set up an Raspberry Pi using only packages in the Debian archive, but
150 that is not possible as far as I know, because it boots from the GPU
151 using a non-free binary blob.
</p>
153 <p>The build host need debootstrap, kpartx and qemu-user-static and
154 probably a few others installed. I have not checked the complete
155 build dependency list.
</p>
157 <p>The resulting image will not use the hardware floating point unit
158 on the Raspberry PI, because the armel architecture in Debian is not
159 optimized for that use. So the images created will be a bit slower
160 than
<a href=
"http://www.raspbian.org/">Raspbian
</a> based images.
</p>
165 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network
</a>.
170 <div class=
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173 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Det_er_jo_makta_som_er_mest_s_rbar_ved_massiv_overv_kning_av_Internett.html">Det er jo makta som er mest sårbar ved massiv overvåkning av Internett
</a></div>
174 <div class=
"date">26th October
2013</div>
175 <div class=
"body"><p>De siste måneders eksponering av
176 <a href=
"http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/Her-er-Edvard-Snowdens-mest-omtalte-avsloringer-7351734.html">den
177 totale overvåkningen som foregår i den vestlige verden dokumenterer
178 hvor sårbare vi er
</a>. Men det slår meg at de som er mest sårbare
179 for dette, myndighetspersoner på alle nivåer, neppe har innsett at de
180 selv er de mest interessante personene å lage profiler på, for å kunne
183 <p>For å ta et lite eksempel: Stortingets nettsted,
184 <a href=
"http://www.stortinget.no/">www.stortinget.no
</a> (og
186 <a href=
"http://data.stortinget.no/">data.stortinget.no
</a>),
187 inneholder informasjon om det som foregår på Stortinget, og jeg antar
188 de største brukerne av informasjonen der er representanter og
189 rådgivere på Stortinget. Intet overraskende med det. Det som derimot
190 er mer skjult er at Stortingets nettsted bruker
191 <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Analytics">Google
192 Analytics
</a>, hvilket gjør at enhver som besøker nettsidene der også
193 rapporterer om besøket via Internett-linjer som passerer Sverige,
194 England og videre til USA. Det betyr at informasjon om ethvert besøk
195 på stortingets nettsider kan snappes opp av svensk, britisk og USAs
196 etterretningsvesen. De kan dermed holde et øye med hvilke
197 Stortingssaker stortingsrepresentantene synes er interessante å sjekke
198 ut, og hvilke sider rådgivere og andre på stortinget synes er
199 interessant å besøke, når de gjør det og hvilke andre representanter
200 som sjekker de samme sidene omtrent samtidig. Stortingets bruk av
201 Google Analytics gjør det dermed enkelt for utenlands etteretning å
202 spore representantenes aktivitet og interesse. Hvis noen av
203 representantene bruker Google Mail eller noen andre tjenestene som
204 krever innlogging, så vil det være enda enklere å finne ut nøyaktig
205 hvilke personer som bruker hvilke nettlesere og dermed knytte
206 informasjonen opp til enkeltpersoner på Stortinget.
</p>
208 <p>Og jo flere nettsteder som bruker Google Analytics, jo bedre
209 oversikt over stortingsrepresentantenes lesevaner og interesse blir
210 tilgjengelig for svensk, britisk og USAs etterretning. Hva de kan
211 bruke den informasjonen til overlater jeg til leseren å undres
217 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance
</a>.
222 <div class=
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225 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Raspberry_Pi_based_batman_adv_Mesh_network_node.html">A Raspberry Pi based batman-adv Mesh network node
</a></div>
226 <div class=
"date">21st October
2013</div>
227 <div class=
"body"><p>The last few days I have been experimenting with
228 <a href=
"http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki">the
229 batman-adv mesh technology
</a>. I want to gain some experience to see
230 if it will fit
<a href=
"https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">the
231 Freedombox project
</a>, and together with my neighbors try to build a
232 mesh network around the park where I live. Batman-adv is a layer
2
233 mesh system ("ethernet" in other words), where the mesh network appear
234 as if all the mesh clients are connected to the same switch.
</p>
236 <p>My hardware of choice was the Linksys WRT54GL routers I had lying
237 around, but I've been unable to get them working with batman-adv. So
238 instead, I started playing with a
239 <a href=
"http://www.raspberrypi.org/">Raspberry Pi
</a>, and tried to
240 get it working as a mesh node. My idea is to use it to create a mesh
241 node which function as a switch port, where everything connected to
242 the Raspberry Pi ethernet plug is connected (bridged) to the mesh
243 network. This allow me to hook a wifi base station like the Linksys
244 WRT54GL to the mesh by plugging it into a Raspberry Pi, and allow
245 non-mesh clients to hook up to the mesh. This in turn is useful for
246 Android phones using
<a href=
"http://servalproject.org/">the Serval
247 Project
</a> voip client, allowing every one around the playground to
248 phone and message each other for free. The reason is that Android
249 phones do not see ad-hoc wifi networks (they are filtered away from
250 the GUI view), and can not join the mesh without being rooted. But if
251 they are connected using a normal wifi base station, they can talk to
252 every client on the local network.
</p>
254 <p>To get this working, I've created a debian package
255 <a href=
"https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/meshfx-node">meshfx-node
</a>
257 <a href=
"https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/meshfx-node/blob/master/build-rpi-mesh-node">build-rpi-mesh-node
</a>
258 to create the Raspberry Pi boot image. I'm using Debian Jessie (and
259 not Raspbian), to get more control over the packages available.
260 Unfortunately a huge binary blob need to be inserted into the boot
261 image to get it booting, but I'll ignore that for now. Also, as
262 Debian lack support for the CPU features available in the Raspberry
263 Pi, the system do not use the hardware floating point unit. I hope
264 the routing performance isn't affected by the lack of hardware FPU
267 <p>To create an image, run the following with a sudo enabled user
268 after inserting the target SD card into the build machine:
</p>
271 % wget -O build-rpi-mesh-node \
272 https://raw.github.com/petterreinholdtsen/meshfx-node/master/build-rpi-mesh-node
273 % sudo bash -x ./build-rpi-mesh-node
> build.log
2>&
1
274 % dd if=/root/rpi/rpi_basic_jessie_$(date +%Y%m%d).img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=
1M
278 <p>Booting with the resulting SD card on a Raspberry PI with a USB
279 wifi card inserted should give you a mesh node. At least it does for
280 me with a the wifi card I am using. The default mesh settings are the
281 ones used by the Oslo mesh project at Hackeriet, as I mentioned in
282 <a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oslo_community_mesh_network___with_NUUG_and_Hackeriet_at_Hausmania.html">an
283 earlier blog post about this mesh testing
</a>.
</p>
285 <p>The mesh node was not horribly expensive either. I bought
286 everything over the counter in shops nearby. If I had ordered online
287 from the lowest bidder, the price should be significantly lower:
</p>
291 <tr><th>Supplier
</th><th>Model
</th><th>NOK
</th></tr>
292 <tr><td>Teknikkmagasinet
</td><td>Raspberry Pi model B
</td><td>349.90</td></tr>
293 <tr><td>Teknikkmagasinet
</td><td>Raspberry Pi type B case
</td><td>99.90</td></tr>
294 <tr><td>Lefdal
</td><td>Jensen Air:Link
25150</td><td>295.-
</td></tr>
295 <tr><td>Clas Ohlson
</td><td>Kingston
16 GB SD card
</td><td>199.-
</td></tr>
296 <tr><td>Total cost
</td><td></td><td>943.80</td></tr>
300 <p>Now my mesh network at home consist of one laptop in the basement
301 connected to my production network, one Raspberry Pi node on the
1th
302 floor that can be seen by my neighbor across the park, and one
303 play-node I use to develop the image building script. And some times
304 I hook up my work horse laptop to the mesh to test it. I look forward
305 to figuring out what kind of latency the batman-adv setup will give,
306 and how much packet loss we will experience around the park. :)
</p>
311 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug
</a>.
316 <div class=
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319 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Perl_library_to_control_the_Spykee_robot_moved_to_github.html">Perl library to control the Spykee robot moved to github
</a></div>
320 <div class=
"date">19th October
2013</div>
321 <div class=
"body"><p>Back in
2010, I created a Perl library to talk to
322 <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spykee">the Spykee robot
</a>
323 (with two belts, wifi, USB and Linux) and made it available from my
324 web page. Today I concluded that it should move to a site that is
325 easier to use to cooperate with others, and moved it to github. If
326 you got a Spykee robot, you might want to check out
327 <a href=
"https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/libspykee-perl">the
328 libspykee-perl github repository
</a>.
</p>
333 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot
</a>.
338 <div class=
"padding"></div>
341 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Good_causes__Debian_Outreach_Program_for_Women__EFF_documenting_the_spying_and_Open_access_in_Norway.html">Good causes: Debian Outreach Program for Women, EFF documenting the spying and Open access in Norway
</a></div>
342 <div class=
"date">15th October
2013</div>
343 <div class=
"body"><p>The last few days I came across a few good causes that should get
344 wider attention. I recommend signing and donating to each one of
347 <p>Via
<a href=
"http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/18/">Debian
348 Project News for
2013-
10-
14</a> I came across the Outreach Program for
349 Women program which is a Google Summer of Code like initiative to get
350 more women involved in free software. One debian sponsor has offered
351 to match
<a href=
"http://debian.ch/opw2013">any donation done to Debian
352 earmarked
</a> for this initiative. I donated a few minutes ago, and
353 hope you will to. :)
</p>
355 <p>And the Electronic Frontier Foundation just announced plans to
356 create
<a href=
"https://supporters.eff.org/donate/nsa-videos">video
357 documentaries about the excessive spying
</a> on every Internet user that
358 take place these days, and their need to fund the work. I've already
359 donated. Are you next?
</p>
361 <p>For my Norwegian audience, the organisation Studentenes og
362 Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond is collecting signatures for a
363 statement under the heading
364 <a href=
"http://saih.no/Bloggers_United/">Bloggers United for Open
365 Access
</a> for those of us asking for more focus on open access in the
366 Norwegian government. So far
499 signatures. I hope you will sign it
372 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance
</a>.
377 <div class=
"padding"></div>
380 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oslo_community_mesh_network___with_NUUG_and_Hackeriet_at_Hausmania.html">Oslo community mesh network - with NUUG and Hackeriet at Hausmania
</a></div>
381 <div class=
"date">11th October
2013</div>
382 <div class=
"body"><p>Wireless mesh networks are self organising and self healing
383 networks that can be used to connect computers across small and large
384 areas, depending on the radio technology used. Normal wifi equipment
385 can be used to create home made radio networks, and there are several
386 successful examples like
387 <a href=
"http://www.freifunk.net/">Freifunk
</a> and
388 <a href=
"http://www.awmn.net/">Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network
</a>
390 <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_community_networks_by_region#Greece">wikipedia
391 for a large list
</a>) around the globe. To give you an idea how it
392 work, check out the nice overview of the Kiel Freifunk community which
393 can be seen from their
394 <a href=
"http://freifunk.in-kiel.de/ffmap/nodes.html">dynamically
395 updated node graph and map
</a>, where one can see how the mesh nodes
396 automatically handle routing and recover from nodes disappearing.
397 There is also a small community mesh network group in Oslo, Norway,
398 and that is the main topic of this blog post.
</p>
400 <p>I've wanted to check out mesh networks for a while now, and hoped
401 to do it as part of my involvement with the
<a
402 href=
"http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG member organisation
</a> community, and
403 my recent involvement in
404 <a href=
"https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">the Freedombox project
</a>
405 finally lead me to give mesh networks some priority, as I suspect a
406 Freedombox should use mesh networks to connect neighbours and family
407 when possible, given that most communication between people are
408 between those nearby (as shown for example by research on Facebook
409 communication patterns). It also allow people to communicate without
410 any central hub to tap into for those that want to listen in on the
411 private communication of citizens, which have become more and more
412 important over the years.
</p>
414 <p>So far I have only been able to find one group of people in Oslo
415 working on community mesh networks, over at the hack space
416 <a href=
"http://hackeriet.no/">Hackeriet
</a> at Husmania. They seem to
417 have started with some Freifunk based effort using OLSR, called
418 <a href=
"http://oslo.freifunk.net/index.php?title=Main_Page">the Oslo
419 Freifunk project
</a>, but that effort is now dead and the people
420 behind it have moved on to a batman-adv based system called
421 <a href=
"http://meshfx.org/trac">meshfx
</a>. Unfortunately the wiki
422 site for the Oslo Freifunk project is no longer possible to update to
423 reflect this fact, so the old project page can't be updated to point to
424 the new project. A while back, the people at Hackeriet invited people
425 from the Freifunk community to Oslo to talk about mesh networks. I
426 came across this video where Hans Jørgen Lysglimt interview the
427 speakers about this talk (from
428 <a href=
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Kd7CLkhSY">youtube
</a>):
</p>
430 <p><iframe width=
"420" height=
"315" src=
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2Kd7CLkhSY" frameborder=
"0" allowfullscreen
></iframe></p>
432 <p>I mentioned OLSR and batman-adv, which are mesh routing protocols.
433 There are heaps of different protocols, and I am still struggling to
434 figure out which one would be "best" for some definitions of best, but
435 given that the community mesh group in Oslo is so small, I believe it
436 is best to hook up with the existing one instead of trying to create a
437 completely different setup, and thus I have decided to focus on
438 batman-adv for now. It sure help me to know that the very cool
439 <a href=
"http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project in Australia
</a>
440 is using batman-adv as their meshing technology when it create a self
441 organizing and self healing telephony system for disaster areas and
442 less industrialized communities. Check out this cool video presenting
444 <a href=
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qNfzJCQOA">youtube
</a>):
</p>
446 <p><iframe width=
"560" height=
"315" src=
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/30qNfzJCQOA" frameborder=
"0" allowfullscreen
></iframe></p>
448 <p>According to the wikipedia page on
449 <a href=
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network">Wireless
450 mesh network
</a> there are around
70 competing schemes for routing
451 packets across mesh networks, and OLSR, B.A.T.M.A.N. and
452 B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced are protocols used by several free software
453 based community mesh networks.
</p>
455 <p>The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer
2
456 (as in ethernet ) routing, allowing ipv4 and ipv6 to work on the same
457 network. One way to think about it is that it provide a mesh based
458 vlan you can bridge to or handle like any other vlan connected to your
459 computer. The required drivers are already in the Linux kernel at
460 least since Debian Wheezy, and it is fairly easy to set up. A
461 <a href=
"http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Quick-start-guide">good
462 introduction
</a> is available from the Open Mesh project. These are
463 the key settings needed to join the Oslo meshfx network:
</p>
466 <tr><th>Setting
</th><th>Value
</th></tr>
467 <tr><td>Protocol / kernel module
</td><td>batman-adv
</td></tr>
468 <tr><td>ESSID
</td><td>meshfx@hackeriet
</td></tr>
469 <td>Channel / Frequency
</td><td>11 /
2462</td></tr>
470 <td>Cell ID
</td><td>02:BA:
00:
00:
00:
01</td>
473 <p>The reason for setting ad-hoc wifi Cell ID is to work around bugs
474 in firmware used in wifi card and wifi drivers. (See a nice post from
476 "
<a href=
"http://tiebing.blogspot.no/2009/12/ad-hoc-cell-splitting-re-post-original.html">Information
477 about cell-id splitting, stuck beacons, and failed IBSS merges!
</a>
478 for details.) When these settings are activated and you have some
479 other mesh node nearby, your computer will be connected to the mesh
480 network and can communicate with any mesh node that is connected to
481 any of the nodes in your network of nodes. :)
</p>
483 <p>My initial plan was to reuse my old Linksys WRT54GL as a mesh node,
484 but that seem to be very hard, as I have not been able to locate a
485 firmware supporting batman-adv. If anyone know how to use that old
486 wifi access point with batman-adv these days, please let me know.
</p>
488 <p>If you find this project interesting and want to join, please join
489 us on IRC, either channel
490 <a href=
"irc://irc.freenode.net/#oslohackerspace">#oslohackerspace
</a>
491 or
<a href=
"irc://irc.freenode.net/#nuug">#nuug
</a> on
492 irc.freenode.net.
</p>
494 <p>While investigating mesh networks in Oslo, I came across an old
495 research paper from the university of Stavanger and Telenor Research
496 and Innovation called
497 <a href=
"http://folk.uio.no/paalee/publications/netrel-egeland-iswcs-2008.pdf">The
498 reliability of wireless backhaul mesh networks
</a> and elsewhere
499 learned that Telenor have been experimenting with mesh networks at
500 Grünerløkka in Oslo. So mesh networks are also interesting for
501 commercial companies, even though Telenor discovered that it was hard
502 to figure out a good business plan for mesh networking and as far as I
503 know have closed down the experiment. Perhaps Telenor or others would
504 be interested in a cooperation?
</p>
506 <p><strong>Update
2013-
10-
12</strong>: I was just
507 <a href=
"http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2013-October/005900.html">told
508 by the Serval project developers
</a> that they no longer use
509 batman-adv (but are compatible with it), but their own crypto based
515 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug
</a>.
520 <div class=
"padding"></div>
523 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_7_1_install_and_overview_video_from_Marcelo_Salvador.html">Skolelinux / Debian Edu
7.1 install and overview video from Marcelo Salvador
</a></div>
524 <div class=
"date"> 8th October
2013</div>
525 <div class=
"body"><p>The other day I was pleased and surprised to discover that Marcelo
526 Salvador had published a
527 <a href=
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-GgpdqgLFc">video on
528 Youtube
</a> showing how to install the standalone Debian Edu /
529 Skolelinux profile. This is the profile intended for use at home or
530 on laptops that should not be integrated into the provided network
531 services (no central home directory, no Kerberos / LDAP directory etc,
532 in other word a single user machine). The result is
11 minutes long,
533 and show some user applications (seem to be rather randomly picked).
534 Missed a few of my favorites like celestia, planets and chromium
535 showing the
<a href=
"http://www.zygotebody.com/">Zygote Body
3D model
536 of the human body
</a>, but I guess he did not know about those or find
537 other programs more interesting. :) And the video do not show the
538 advantages I believe is one of the most valuable featuers in Debian
539 Edu, its central school server making it possible to run hundreds of
540 computers without hard drives by installing one central
541 <a href=
"http://www.ltsp.org/">LTSP server
</a>.
</p>
543 <p>Anyway, check out the video, embedded below and linked to above:
</p>
545 <iframe width=
"420" height=
"315" src=
"http://www.youtube.com/embed/w-GgpdqgLFc" frameborder=
"0" allowfullscreen
></iframe>
547 <p>Are there other nice videos demonstrating Skolelinux? Please let
553 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video
</a>.
558 <div class=
"padding"></div>
561 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Finally__Debian_Edu_Wheezy_is_released_today_.html">Finally, Debian Edu Wheezy is released today!
</a></div>
562 <div class=
"date">29th September
2013</div>
563 <div class=
"body"><p>A few hours ago, the announcement for the first stable release of
564 Debian Edu Wheezy went out from the Debian publicity team. The
565 complete announcement text can be found at
566 <a href=
"http://www.debian.org/News/2013/20130928">the Debian News
567 section
</a>, translated to several languages. Please check it out.
</p>
569 <p>There is one minor known problem that we will fix very soon. One
570 can not install a amd64 Thin Client Server using PXE, as the /var/
571 partition is too small. A workaround is to extend the partition (use
572 lvresize + resize2fs in tty
2 while installing).
</p>
577 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>.
582 <div class=
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585 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Videos_about_the_Freedombox_project___for_inspiration_and_learning.html">Videos about the Freedombox project - for inspiration and learning
</a></div>
586 <div class=
"date">27th September
2013</div>
587 <div class=
"body"><p>The
<a href=
"http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/">Freedombox
588 project
</a> have been going on for a while, and have presented the
589 vision, ideas and solution several places. Here is a little
590 collection of videos of talks and presentation of the project.
</p>
594 <li><a href=
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukvUz5taxvA">FreedomBox -
595 2,
5 minute marketing film
</a> (Youtube)
</li>
597 <li><a href=
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzW25QTVWsE">Eben Moglen
598 discusses the Freedombox on CBS news
2011</a> (Youtube)
</li>
600 <li><a href=
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae8SZbxfE0g">Eben Moglen -
601 Freedom in the Cloud - Software Freedom, Privacy and and Security for
602 Web
2.0 and Cloud computing at ISOC-NY Public Meeting
2010</a>
605 <li><a href=
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNaIji_3xBE">Fosdem
2011
606 Keynote by Eben Moglen presenting the Freedombox
</a> (Youtube)
</li>
608 <li><a href=
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDDUyJSQ9s">Presentation of
609 the Freedombox by James Vasile at Elevate in Gratz
2011</a> (Youtube)
</li>
611 <li><a href=
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQTmnk27g9s"> Freedombox -
612 Discovery, Identity, and Trust by Nick Daly at Freedombox Hackfest New
613 York City in
2012</a> (Youtube)
</li>
615 <li><a href=
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkbSB4Ba7Ck">Introduction
616 to the Freedombox at Freedombox Hackfest New York City in
2012</a>
619 <li><a href=
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-P2Jaeg0aQ">Freedom, Out
620 of the Box! by Bdale Garbee at linux.conf.au Ballarat,
2012</a> (Youtube)
</li>
622 <li><a href=
"https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/freedombox/">Freedombox
623 1.0 by Eben Moglen and Bdale Garbee at Fosdem
2013</a> (FOSDEM)
</li>
625 <li><a href=
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1LpYX2zVYg">What is the
626 FreedomBox today by Bdale Garbee at Debconf13 in Vaumarcus
627 2013</a> (Youtube)
</li>
631 <p>A larger list is available from
632 <a href=
"https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations">the
633 Freedombox Wiki
</a>.
</p>
635 <p>On other news, I am happy to report that Freedombox based on Debian
636 Jessie is coming along quite well, and soon both Owncloud and using
637 Tor should be available for testers of the Freedombox solution. :) In
638 a few weeks I hope everything needed to test it is included in Debian.
639 The withsqlite package is already in Debian, and the plinth package is
640 pending in NEW. The third and vital part of that puzzle is the
641 metapackage/setup framework, which is still pending an upload. Join
642 us on
<a href=
"irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC
643 (#freedombox on irc.debian.org)
</a> and
644 <a href=
"http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
645 mailing list
</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.
</p>
650 Tags:
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"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
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<a href=
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</a>,
<a href=
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</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web
</a>.
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"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/scraperwiki">scraperwiki (
2)
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902 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (
32)
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904 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (
4)
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906 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (
4)
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908 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (
43)
</a></li>
910 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (
3)
</a></li>
912 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (
9)
</a></li>
914 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (
20)
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916 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin (
1)
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918 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (
8)
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920 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (
39)
</a></li>
922 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (
4)
</a></li>
924 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (
28)
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