Hey all,
I think I'm way out of my league when I try contributing to this page...
can't help opening my mouth though...
Please remember we're talking about RasPi here... running OwnCloud for a
single user is already pulling this machine to its knees.
If you'd start adding TOR, mailpile, etc... I'm assuming this would
really start running really slow.
Now add another thingie called XBMC... and you'll probably get a media
centre with a framerate of 1fps at best. I doubt this would give a good
experience - and would be counter productive: people would consider the
RasPi/Freedombox as a piece of crap.
Keeping it lean and spiffy is the way to go. Obviously, you could have
some torrent client running on your Freedombox, and use a separate RasPi
to function as a media centre, and possibly even pull its (legally or
otherwise acquired) movies from your freedombox.
This way, you're actually putting your RasPi in good use twice (but
you'll need 2 of them). :)
Grtz,
Jurgen.
On 06-05-14 22:11, Chris Troutner wrote:
My (personal) idea of a "FreedomBox" is the suite of software built and loaded
onto a piece of hardware from the Freedombox 'package'. Not necessarily Plinth, as that
is just a configuration program, but things like TOR, privoxy, JWChat, and other stuff
like encrypted email.
I *really* like the stance this project has taken to use Freedom-maker and
Plinth to make the build and configuration as easy and painless as possible.
My inspiration for this idea comes from the fact that I've tried to describe
Freedombox to my friends and family and haven't gotten much of a reaction from
them. They think it's a cool idea, but the immediate benefit to them isn't
apparent. However, they all get excited by the idea of a media center... and
wouldn't mind contributing some network capacity to the TOR network while
they're at it.
If xbmc and whatever other packages were needed to get a basic media player
running on the Raspberry Pi were included in the freedom-maker script for that
hardware target, it would make the Freedombox a much easier sell to the common
person. This same notion could be said for the personal cloud storage, which I
am also stoked to see being added to the project. The benefit for the
non-privacy-sensitive person is clear and immediate, and would make adoption
and proliferation of the privacy-promoting software easier.
-Chris Troutner
/Jonas said:/
...but that's just me. It really depends quite essentially on what you
mean by "FreedomBox", and I shall not judge you on that.
- Jonas
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