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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><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>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
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- <title>Freedombox on Dreamplug, Raspberry Pi and virtual x86 machine</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Freedombox_on_Dreamplug__Raspberry_Pi_and_virtual_x86_machine.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Freedombox_on_Dreamplug__Raspberry_Pi_and_virtual_x86_machine.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">Freedombox
-project</a> is working on providing the software and hardware for
-making 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 has been
-going on for a while, and is slowly progressing towards a new test
-release (0.2).</p>
-
-<p>And what day could be better than the Pi day to announce that the
-new version will provide "hard drive" / SD card / USB stick images for
-Dreamplug, Raspberry Pi and VirtualBox (or any other virtualization
-system), and can also be installed using a Debian installer preseed
-file. The Debian based Freedombox is now based on Debian Jessie,
-where most of the needed packages used are already present. Only one,
-the freedombox-setup package, is missing. To try to build your own
-boot image to test the current status, fetch the freedom-maker scripts
-and build using
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/vmdebootstrap">vmdebootstrap</a>
-with a user with sudo access to become root:
-
-<pre>
-git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/freedombox/freedom-maker.git \
- freedom-maker
-sudo apt-get install git vmdebootstrap mercurial python-docutils \
- mktorrent extlinux virtualbox qemu-user-static binfmt-support \
- u-boot-tools
-make -C freedom-maker dreamplug-image raspberry-image virtualbox-image
-</pre>
-
-<p>Root access is needed to run debootstrap and mount loopback
-devices. See the README for more details on the build. If you do not
-want all three images, trim the make line. But note that thanks to <a
-href="https://bugs.debian.org/741407">a race condition in
-vmdebootstrap</a>, the build might fail without the patch to the
-kpartx call.</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>
-
-<pre>
-url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat</a>
-</pre>
-
-<p>But note that due to <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/740673">a
-recently introduced bug in apt in Jessie</a>, the installer will
-currently hang while setting up APT sources. Killing the
-'<tt>apt-cdrom ident</tt>' process when it hang a few times during the
-installation will get the installation going. This affect all
-installations in Jessie, and I expect it will be fixed soon.</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>
-</description>
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