Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox 0.2 almost ready - please test

2014-03-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
A. F. Cano a...@shibaya.lonestar.org writes: I did my first git clone shortly after your request for testers at the beginning of this thread on March 11, using exactly the command line you gave. Petter pointed to my repository, but I hadn't pushed things there yet... and didn't until nearly a

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] (fwd) plinth_0.3.0.0.git.20131101-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

2013-12-31 Thread Bdale Garbee
Nick Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com writes: I'll leave that up to the folks with more packaging experience than me. Also, Bdale was working on removing a bunch of the cruft (from the days before we had *anything* packaged) from Freedom-Maker. Bdale, have you published those changes yet? I ran

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Dev: Networking Interface Config?

2013-12-17 Thread Bdale Garbee
Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com writes: Should we use network-manager? No. Bdale pgpfdZJHNAAIr.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Fwd: Re: Dev: Networking Interface Config?

2013-12-17 Thread Bdale Garbee
Simo s...@ssimo.org writes: Can you, or Bdale, provide a reason why using NM is undesirable ? It pulls in a significant trail of dependencies that just aren't necessary or useful. Bdale pgp7b0LbKw5RQ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Dev: Networking Interface Config?

2013-12-17 Thread Bdale Garbee
Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com writes: But I am sure we should try to make sure the freedombox get IP address when it is plugged into the network, and not depend on the network being available at boot time. Yes. Well, except for the first boot case, where having a fixed and known

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Dev: New FreedomBox-Setup Dependency: NTP

2013-12-12 Thread Bdale Garbee
Daniel Kahn Gillmor d...@fifthhorseman.net writes: In particular, it looks like most TLS implementations (both client and server) will be putting random data in the gmt_unix_time field in the very near future. Sigh. Thanks for letting me know... Bdale pgpSYn8lKqrxd.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Debian plan to drop support for Raspberry Pi and Dreamplug?

2013-12-04 Thread Bdale Garbee
Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: Dreamplug uses kernel flavor kirkwood. Correct. I don't know which kernel flavor Raspberry Pi uses - if any flavor supported by Debian at all. Supposedly it can run one of the currently-stock Debian armel kernels, but it won't make best use of the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] LDAP

2013-12-04 Thread Bdale Garbee
Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: Ok. Makes good sense to mandate use of shared auth mechanism. Not convinced LDAP is the ideal for that, though. It probably isn't, but I don't know of anything better. Note that I traded emails in Feb with Howard Chu about using LDAP in this

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Dev: New FreedomBox-Setup Dependency: NTP

2013-12-04 Thread Bdale Garbee
Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com writes: I am very found of NTP and correct clocks. And in an earlier version (a few weeks ago) of freedombox-setup, ntp was part of the installation set. But I decided to take it out until it was properly discussed, as it will create a regular beakon out

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] What would it take to port existing FB code to Rasberry Pi?

2013-10-25 Thread Bdale Garbee
Chris Troutner chris.trout...@gmail.com writes: I'm just curious if anyone on this list has a clear view of what it would take - what obvious technological barriers exist between the two systems. There are none. It's inconvenient that Raspian is developed out of tree from Debian proper, but

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get install fbx

2012-12-03 Thread Bdale Garbee
JOSEFSSON Erik erik.josefs...@europarl.europa.eu writes: Just a very general question: What does it take (in detailed steps) to get from where fbx is today to apt-get install fbx? I'm working on it. The short answer is creating a suitable metapackage or three and then restructuring

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Investigating Weekly-Image Boot Format Errors

2012-12-03 Thread Bdale Garbee
Nick M. Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com writes: Too early to say whether there'll be a new, usable, image this weekend, but I'm being hopeful. Waiting for a (delayed) plane home from FOSS Con Korea 2012 at the moment, will have a look at your changes when I get home and have access to a DreamPlug

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0729 Available

2012-08-03 Thread Bdale Garbee
Ted Smith te...@riseup.net writes: I'd like to suggest that by default, the Freedombox have no wireless network password. While I understand and mostly agree with your reasoning in general, I thought I'd mention that for the upcoming reference image release, I actually plan to not enable the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] uImage and uInitrd ?

2012-07-13 Thread Bdale Garbee
Markus Sabadello markus.sabade...@gmail.com writes: Which kernel file and which initrd file does the Dreamplug actually boot with a freedom-maker generated image? Note that this is in active transition. About a week ago here at Debconf12 in Nicaragua, Hector Oron and I succeeded in getting

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] updates to plinth

2012-03-12 Thread Bdale Garbee
#part sign=pgpmime On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:55:22 -0400, James Vasile vas...@freedomboxfoundation.org wrote: I haven't yet figured out how to detect where Plinth should listen. I'd appreciate input on this one. This should probably be explicitly configured as part of the initial box

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] non-free on sources.list

2011-12-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 12:07:12 -0200, Felipe Sanches j...@members.fsf.org wrote: I think that it would be good software-freedom policy to keep the repositories completely clean of non-free packages and then have clear documentation stating which non-free packages are needed for each additional

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Freedombox software on i32

2011-12-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:22:36 -0500, Quiliro Ordóñez quil...@congresolibre.org wrote: Is there documentation to run the same software as Freedombox on i32? I would like to test the software on several old boxes I have.I have found: https://bitbucket.org/nickdaly/plugserver

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] An offer to the Freedombox community

2011-11-14 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:25:29 -0500, Joshua Spodek joshuaspo...@yahoo.com wrote: If you are someone capable of creating a minimally working Freedombox and could use help, email me and let’s figure out if I can help you complete the project.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Feedback and patches for freedom-maker.

2011-11-02 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:17:27 -0200, Thiago Jung Bauermann thiago.bauerm...@gmail.com wrote: On IRC Rob Savoye pointed me to freedom-maker. I wish I knew about it earlier! :-) To help future users and prospective developers, I mentioned the tool on

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Straight and Narrow.

2011-10-24 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:09:05 +0100, Michael Rogers m...@gmx.com wrote: Forgive me if I'm speaking out of turn - I haven't contributed a single line of code to this project - but I think it's an excellent idea to get the non-safety-critical parts of the code released as soon as possible. I

[Freedombox-discuss] prosody vs ejabberd

2011-09-28 Thread Bdale Garbee
I could use input from people who have *actually used* prosody and/or ejabberd about your experiences and the resulting pros and cons of the two daemons. At the moment, it appears that either could be a plausible choice for the foundation's reference implementation, but it's time to pick one.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] report on activities in Banja Luka

2011-08-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 20:45:36 +1000, John Walsh fiftyf...@waldevin.com wrote: Thank you and the rest of the team for all your hard work both in developing and promoting the FBX in Banja Luka. Thank you! I looked at Buddycloud's website and was surprised to learn that they hope to release next

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] report on activities in Banja Luka

2011-08-07 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Sun, 7 Aug 2011 14:49:18 -0400, Jason freedom...@lakedaemon.net wrote: Depending on your timeline, and how quickly I can learn devicetree, it might be worth reconsidering the above. I'm willing. The two impending milestones are a drop of initial developer bits in maybe a week, and the

[Freedombox-discuss] report on activities in Banja Luka

2011-08-06 Thread Bdale Garbee
I just posted a lengthy entry in my blog reporting on FreedomBox activities at the recently-concluded Debconf11 in Banja Luka. It should show up in the various planets and so forth that aggregate my entries shortly, or you can read it directly here: http://www.gag.com/bdale/blog/

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0153204/Security-Consultants-Wa rn-About-PROTECT-IP-Act

2011-07-21 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:19:13 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton luke.leigh...@gmail.com wrote: including as i've repeatedly mentioned on-list (and have received no response regarding the avenues which can be explored and the pre-existing software and collaborations already underway) a

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] http://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0153204/Security-Consultants-Wa rn-About-PROTECT-IP-Act

2011-07-20 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:30:51 -0400, Ted Smith te...@riseup.net wrote: Non-text part: multipart/mixed Non-text part: multipart/signed Why are people more attracted to debating pet solutions to very hard problems that will not be solved on a mailing list than to advancing the agenda of the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] I will attend Debconf11 in July

2011-06-16 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:20:52 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: I _will_ attend the upcoming Debian conference - Debconf - in July. Cool. Hopefully we can focus in and get lots of good stuff done. Bdale pgpFhd8HBXqGi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Objectives and Introduction

2011-06-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:36:22 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: No, I am not against tying FreedomBox to DDD[0] - quite the opposite! Good. I am, however, concerned if we agree on what it means to be a Debian Pure Blend Ok, thanks, I understand you now. I'm more interested in

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] objectives

2011-06-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:09:24 -0400, The Doctor dr...@virtadpt.net wrote: PivotX (http://pivotx.net/) also supports flat files for everything. I used that functionality of it for about two years, and found it very reliable (plus migrating to MySQL was largely painless). Thanks for the pointer

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Objectives and Introduction

2011-06-09 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 03:57:41 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: That said, I believe Bdale is aiming more broadly for now: Try read his mail with a fresh mind - without assumptions on specific designs like Debian Pure Blends or anything else. Actually, Jonas, I think the basic

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] A software architecture for the FreedomBox

2011-04-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:34:53 +0200, Rob van der Hoeven robvanderhoe...@ziggo.nl wrote: The virtualized containers in my design have the following purposes Yep, I get it. I'm just worried about focus and scope right now. One of the things I continue to wrestle with is where the boundary should