<h3>Entries from April 2014.</h3>
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/FreedomBox_milestone___all_packages_now_in_Debian_Sid.html">FreedomBox milestone - all packages now in Debian Sid</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 15th April 2014
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">Freedombox
+project</a> 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.</p>
+
+<p>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. :)</p>
+
+<p>Some key packages used by Freedombox are
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/freedombox-setup">freedombox-setup</a>,
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/plinth">plinth</a>,
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/pagekite">pagekite</a>,
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/tor">tor</a>,
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/privoxy">privoxy</a>,
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/owncloud">owncloud</a> and
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/dnsmasq">dnsmasq</a>. There
+are plans to integrate more packages into the setup. User
+documentation is maintained on the Debian wiki. Please
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Jessie">check out
+the manual</a> and help us improve it.</p>
+
+<p>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:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+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
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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:</p>
+
+<p><pre>
+url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat</a>
+</pre></p>
+
+<p>I have not tested it myself the last few weeks, so I do not know if
+it still work.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<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
+<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
+mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ 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/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</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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+ </div>
+ </div>
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<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (146)</a></li>
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- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox (7)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox (8)</a></li>
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