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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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