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+               <title>FreedomBox milestone - all packages now in Debian Sid</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/FreedomBox_milestone___all_packages_now_in_Debian_Sid.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/FreedomBox_milestone___all_packages_now_in_Debian_Sid.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox&quot;&gt;Freedombox
+project&lt;/a&gt; is working on providing the software and hardware to make
+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 is still going strong, and
+today a major mile stone was reached.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Today, the last of the packages currently used by the project to
+created the system images were accepted into Debian Unstable.  It was
+the freedombox-setup package, which is used to configure the images
+during build and on the first boot.  Now all one need to get going is
+the build code from the freedom-maker git repository and packages from
+Debian.  And once the freedombox-setup package enter testing, we can
+build everything directly from Debian. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Some key packages used by Freedombox are
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/freedombox-setup&quot;&gt;freedombox-setup&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/plinth&quot;&gt;plinth&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/pagekite&quot;&gt;pagekite&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/tor&quot;&gt;tor&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy&quot;&gt;privoxy&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/owncloud&quot;&gt;owncloud&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/dnsmasq&quot;&gt;dnsmasq&lt;/a&gt;.  There
+are plans to integrate more packages into the setup.  User
+documentation is maintained on the Debian wiki.  Please
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Jessie&quot;&gt;check out
+the manual&lt;/a&gt; and help us improve it.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To test for yourself and create boot images with the FreedomBox
+setup, run this on a Debian machine using a user with sudo rights to
+become root:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+sudo 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
+make -C freedom-maker dreamplug-image raspberry-image virtualbox-image
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Root access is needed to run debootstrap and mount loopback
+devices.  See the README in the freedom-maker git repo for more
+details on the build.  If you do not want all three images, trim the
+make line.  Note that the virtualbox-image target is not really
+virtualbox specific.  It create a x86 image usable in kvm, qemu,
+vmware and any other x86 virtual machine environment.  You might need
+the version of vmdebootstrap in Jessie to get the build working, as it
+include fixes for a race condition with kpartx.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you instead want to install using a Debian CD and the preseed
+method, boot a Debian Wheezy ISO and use this boot argument to load
+the preseed values:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+url=&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat&quot;&gt;http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I have not tested it myself the last few weeks, so I do not know if
+it still work.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you wonder how to help, one task you could look at is using
+systemd as the boot system.  It will become the default for Linux in
+Jessie, so we need to make sure it is usable on the Freedombox.  I did
+a simple test a few weeks ago, and noticed dnsmasq failed to start
+during boot when using systemd.  I suspect there are other problems
+too. :) To detect problems, there is a test suite included, which can
+be run from the plinth web interface.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox&quot;&gt;IRC (#freedombox on
+irc.debian.org)&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss&quot;&gt;the
+mailing list&lt;/a&gt; if you want to help make this vision come true.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
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                <title>Språkkoder for POSIX locale i Norge</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Spr_kkoder_for_POSIX_locale_i_Norge.html</link>