[Freedombox-discuss] Thoughts on

Here's a really long discussion from another project about how to engage with users and manage bugs. Might be interesting/useful to folks here: https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/inkscape-devel/thread/1484974530.27431.9.camel%40gmail.com/#msg35617126 Thanks, FreedomBoxers! Nick

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Unattended updates not running

Diederik de Haas writes: >> Allowed origins are: ['origin=Debian','o=Debian,n=jessie,c=main'... > > To make it useful on a non-stable system, you'd have to provide a custom > configuration. That's unexpected. In the 0.9 image, the distro_codename should be derived from /etc/debian_version [0],

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Testing ODroid-XU4 Notes

Hi Jonas, Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> writes: > Hi Nick, > > Quoting Nick Daly (2016-09-04 21:27:25) >> - The [ODroid-XU4] seems sturdy and fast. Really nice hardware. > > Do I recall correctly that the "fast" part come with the price of &g

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Testing ODroid-XU4 Notes

Sunil Mohan Adapa writes: > It looks like Debian bits are all there and we need bl1, bl2 and > trustzone binaries to boot[3]. However, there may be hope for it as > the original reference implementation is free software[4]. We can > check with #debian-boot folks for more

[Freedombox-discuss] Testing ODroid-XU4 Notes

Hi folks, Recently, I bought an ODroid XU4 to test as a FreedomBox. I was originally going to buy one of the boards from the Parallela project, but they seem to have wrapped up. 16 or 128 cores might be the wrong focus for a personal web-server, anyway. Below are my notes on testing with the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Shaarli anomaly with tags.

A. F. Cano writes: > I've just imported 1000+ links from firefox into Shaarli on the > freedombox from firefox ...all the [comma separated multi-word] tags > had been broken up into single words... This is also the case when > entering tags manually in edit mode. Hi Augustine I haven't done this

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] 4th Amendment Troubles

Hi Bill, thanks for writing in, it's always good to hear from our insightful lurkers. :) On Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 16:26 Bill K. wrote: > The federal government (in the US, anyways) is trying very hard to make > it legal to break in to home computers (of domestic citizens) without > warrants... how

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Adding a partition

Dietmar writes: > Up to now I have always used EXT4, so I have no experience with btrfs. > How do I create that file system? Use gparted on another system to resize the partition to fill the card. Don't try to resize the partition while the system is running on that

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Progress Call Notes: June 28th, 2015

Hi folks, I've posted the current notes for the LDAP-demo discussed during today's call. Please edit! https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TalksAndPresentations/LdapDemo Nick Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com writes: Hi folks, the notes from this month's progress call are available: https

[Freedombox-discuss] Progress Call Notes: June 28th, 2015

Hi folks, the notes from this month's progress call are available: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ProgressCalls/2015.0628 This month's TODOs include: - Plinth module to mount/unmount disks, encryption support? (James) - End-User Manual for next release

[Freedombox-discuss] Next Progress Call: 2015-06-28

Hi folks, the next FreedomBox progress call is June 28th, 2015, at 6 PM GMT. Connect through Mumble: freedombox.mumble.com, port: 9989. I hope you can join! Nick pgpgduKGacaPu.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list

[Freedombox-discuss] Progress Call Notes: 2015-05-24

Hi folks, the 2015-05-24 Progress Call is complete, please see the notes and this month's TODOs, below. Thanks, Nick https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ProgressCalls/2015.0524#preview TODOs: * [ ] Complete Roadmap Draft (Nick) * [X] Update Call time to 6 PM GMT (Nick) * [ ] Upload plinth

[Freedombox-discuss] March 29th Progress Call TODOs

The call notes from the 2015-3-29 call are posted: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ProgressCalls/2015.0329 The TODO list is below, for reference: - Marc: mod_auth_env needs to be moved. - Marc: mod_auth_env optionally check VERIFY variable so we're examining both the username and local

[Freedombox-discuss] Progress Call: 3/29, 7 PM GMT

Hi folks, the next progress call is next Sunday at 7 PM GMT. Please post any items you'd like to discuss at: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ProgressCalls Thanks! Nick BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:1.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20150329T19 DTEND:20150329T20

[Freedombox-discuss] Python 2/3?

Hi folks, is there a preferred Python version on the FreedomBox right now? It seems to me that both are available by default, so both are fine, but I wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing anything. Nick pgpRQoBxoy_Dv.pgp Description: PGP signature

[Freedombox-discuss] Progress Call: February 22, 7 PM GMT

Hi folks, the next FreedomBox Progress Call will be on Sunday, February 22th, at 7 PM GMT. Please add any topics you wanted to cover to: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ProgressCalls Hope to see you there! Thanks, Nick ___ Freedombox-discuss

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FOSDEM 2015

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, 09:14 Federico Ceratto federico.cera...@gmail.com wrote: The IRC channel #freedombox@freenode is probably the best place to sync-up during FOSDEM. Nope, you'll want to be on #freedom...@irc.oftc.net, which is the project's actual home. Nobody working on the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Progress Call: January 25th, 7 PM GMT

Hi everybody, the TODO items from this month's call are below. The next call will be on 2015-02-22: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ProgressCalls Actions - TODO Sunil: Post X86/Debian page to supported hardware. - TODO Sunil: Ask about F-M/FBX-Setup upload permissions? - TODO Nick: check

[Freedombox-discuss] Progress Call: January 25th, 7 PM GMT

Hi folks, the next FreedomBox Progress Call will be on Sunday, January 25th, at 7 PM GMT. Please add any topics you wanted to cover to: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ProgressCalls Hope to see you there! Thanks, Nick ___ Freedombox-discuss

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox 0.3 Released!

Hi folks, I'm proud to announce that FreedomBox version 0.3 has been released! This release comes ten months after the previous, 0.2 release. The FreedomBox version 0.3 is available here: http://ftp.skolelinux.org/pub/freedombox/0.3/ Before using, you should verify the image's signature,

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] plinth giving Bad Request (400)

Cameron Bunch writes: I am trying to get an fbx setup as a Vmware VM to begin some Freedombox experimentation with it but have encountered a problem. 1. Obtained the VirtualBox image (2014-11-15) and converted it into a Vmware VM... The problem is that when I use Iceweasel on the Wheezy

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Wiki page about contributing to FreedomBox

Excellent work, as always, Sunil. Thank you! On Fri, Jan 9, 2015, 09:39 Sunil Mohan sunilmo...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 22 December 2014 03:35 AM, Nick Daly wrote: [...] - Create a general Contribute wiki page telling people how to pull projects, put them together, and submit changes

[Freedombox-discuss] 2014-12-28 Progress Call

Hi folks, we had another successful progress call this month, with the next one scheduled for Sunday, 2015-01-25, at 19:00 GMT. The detailed notes are available on the Debian Wiki, but the things on everybody's mind for the next month are: - Everybody: Discuss what our concerns are about

[Freedombox-discuss] Wider Distribution Concerns?

Hi folks, during the call today, Markus and Sunil brought up the fact that they had concerns about distributing 100 boxen to developers (projectdanube.org), and thought it would be a good idea to discuss what those concerns are. This might help us direct the 1.0 todo list as well. To start, my

[Freedombox-discuss] Monthly Progress Call: 12/28 7 PM GMT?

Hi folks, let me know if this month's scheduled progress meeting, 12/28, 19:00 GMT, does or doesn't work for you. If it doesn't, we can reschedule for other times. Please offer potential times if asking for a reschedule. Also, let me know if the time works for you, too. Since we have folks

[Freedombox-discuss] November 2014 Call Notes

Hi folks, the notes from today's call have been posted: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ProgressCalls Thanks to everyone who attended, we had a great turnout today! Nick ___ Freedombox-discuss mailing list Freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org

[Freedombox-discuss] Monthly Progress + Development Calls?

Hi folks, in order to coordinate better, we should try to put together regular, probably monthly, calls where we discuss ongoing topics of interest. Right now, I'm scheduling the first call for Sunday, November 30th at 6 PM GMT. Further details on joining the meeting will be posted to

[Freedombox-discuss] Merge Policy?

Hi folks, I've recently had a few questions about the FBX community's merge policy, and wanted to bring them to the list, because it might be helpful to have a well documented standard available on the wiki. I would like to hold myself to something like the following: - Unit tests pass. - Style

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox - Danube Edition

Hi Markus, I'm excited to see what you do with the November 2014 FreedomBox Danube Edition. As long as it's clear that it's a developer-preview, I think it's a great idea. I can't imagine what 100 live boxen could do for the community! However, I'd really appreciate it if you could keep a few

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Per user temp directory using libpam-tmpdir?

Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com writes: libpam-tmpdir create the missing folder when a new pam session is created. I guess this do not happen in freedom-maker. I am not sure what the correct approach is, but either freedom-maker can be changed to call processes in a way that create a

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Trouble Building Raspberry Pi Image

Chris Troutner writes: ...to add curl like this: # Packages to install in all FreedomBox environments base_pkgs=apt base-files ifupdown initramfs-tools \ logrotate module-init-tools netbase rsyslog udev debian-archive-keyring curl Did I edit the right line? Did I edit it correctly? That

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Fossil SCM/VCS as CMS [Was: Re: CMS in freedombox]

ST smn...@gmail.com writes: I'm not sure about bug reports, but wiki you definitely can host as files (or within the database - both options are available) - they call it embedded documentation. This is exactly what I was thinking to use instead of a dedicated CMS. In ikiwiki you have to have

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Fossil SCM/VCS as CMS [Was: Re: CMS in freedombox]

ST smn...@gmail.com writes: Hi Nick, if no CMS was integrated yet - I suggest to use Fossil ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_(software) ) instead of Ikiwiki. I took a look on Ikiwiki and realized that Fossil covers almost all Ikiwiki features but offers much more. It is small (only one

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] How do we handle package upgrades on the Freedombox?

Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: When Plinth directly edits configuration files, it is an administrators' tool. Solution is to have Plinth only ever communicate with debconf! ...and convince various package maintainers (e.g. by offering patches) to implement via debconf the

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] CMS in freedombox

Correction, you should download images from this site instead. They're much newer! ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/pub/freedombox/ On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Nick Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hi ST, I don't believe anybody's integrated a CMS yet. I have plans to integrate ikiwiki

[Freedombox-discuss] Doc: Please Contribute to 0.2 Release Notes!

Hi folks, if you have any details about any of the new services added to the FreedomBox in the 0.2 release, please add them here: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/ReleaseNotes#New_Services-1 The services that really need help are: * !OwnCloud * dnsmasq * Service Announcement * LDAP Server

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Dev: Sending All Traffic Over Tor?

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Nick Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, since we now support running Tor bridges on boxes, is it time to send all the box's traffic over Tor? Since we now have a UI that we can use to configure settings, lets try setting all traffic to go through Tor

[Freedombox-discuss] Dev: Sending All Traffic Over Tor?

Hi folks, since we now support running Tor bridges on boxes, is it time to send all the box's traffic over Tor? If so, what would be the best way to do this? We already have privoxy (have we configured it or the HTTPSEverywhere ruleset at all?), but we could also use one of the instruction sets

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Test if your freedombox is working as it should (testsuite)

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 8:20 PM, A. F. Cano a...@shibaya.lonestar.org wrote: I suppose I should have asked: How do I access plinth when the fbx is running in a virtualbox? Obviously, I need to know the interface names on which the virtualbox is listening. The default eth0 is in NAT mode, so

[Freedombox-discuss] Dev: Cross Cutting Concerns in Plinth?

Hi folks, Plinth doesn't currently handle cross-cutting concerns very well. For example, if I change the hostname, I need to individually notify every service that depends on that hostname. If Plinth had better support for callbacks or advice, each service could just register a function to be

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] How to use JWChat on the freedombox?

James Valleroy james.valle...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote: You are right. This actually work. When I visit http://eth0-ip-on-freedombox/, I get the redirect to 403 Forbidden. If I add fbx to /etc/hosts on my local machine and

[Freedombox-discuss] Wiki Updates

Hi folks, I sorta tore up the wiki's landing page, because... It's needed to be revamped for quite a while now. I split the page into three sections: 1. Use a FreedomBox (manuals) 2. Learn about FreedomBox (philosophy) 3. Build the FreedomBox (contribute) https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox I

[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Wiki Pages

Just so you know, we have 80 pages already on the wiki. We just need to do a bit of a better job organizing them: FreedomBox FreedomBox/0.2Todos FreedomBox/1.0Todos FreedomBox/BetaReleaseTodos FreedomBox/BoxConfiguration FreedomBox/BuildImage FreedomBox/ClientServerCommunication

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Some notes on the disk space situation on FreedomBox 0.2

Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com writes: When Bdale switched on the option to store the source of all the installed packages in /usr/src/packages/ to prepare for the release build, the disk space situation on the freedombox changed dramatically. I believe we need to increase the image

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Block brute force login attacks?

I'd like to throw one more alternative into the mix: On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote: - iptables / ufw rules - libpam-shield - locks out remote attackers trying password guessing - libpam-abl - blocks hosts which are attempting a brute force

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] What is new in FreedomBox version 0.2 compared to 0.1?

Hi Pere! On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote: What exactly is new in version 0.2 compared to version 0.1? I belive we should make a list and put it in the wiki. I never tried v0.1, so I do not know. The 0.1 release announcement [0] featured a

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] What is new in FreedomBox version 0.2 compared to 0.1?

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote: What about the ssh server? Was it present in 0.1? Yup, that's how we administered the box remotely. And the latest version contain avahi daemon, ldap server and lxc support. There is also a DNS and DHCP server

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Should we drop xterm from the freedombox default setup?

Mercurial was installed because some unpackaged projects used hg instead of git. It can be removed, and certainly shouldn't be pulling xterm in, anyway... On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote: I noticed today when running apt-get upgrade on my freedombox

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

A. F. Cano a...@shibaya.lonestar.org writes: I'm now running the newly-built image in virtualbox. I can log in as root and fbx, but I gather from the readme file that the first thing to do is plug in ethernet cables on both interfaces. The README assumes you're using a physical DreamPlug.

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

A. F. Cano a...@shibaya.lonestar.org writes: Tried to build for virtualbox. It failed. The loop device the script assumes doesn't exist on Debian Jessie. ERROR: command failed: ['mkfs', '-t', 'ext4', '/dev/mapper/loop0p1'] Interesting. Bdale was running into that issue too. Try running:

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] OwnCloud

Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com writes: [Chris Troutner] If the FreedomBox is attached to a home router with a dynamic IP, how does the that get handled for interaction through the web browser interface? I've used DynDNS for stuff like this in the past, but I don't think they're free

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

Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com writes: The next release of freedombox is almost ready to ship. :) :) :) 8) Nick Daly got the dreambox image working yesterday. Here're my release notes from testing the current image. * FBX Image [2014-03-09 Sun] Release Notes 1. To connect

[Freedombox-discuss] Dev: TODO List Cleanup Complete

Hi folks, I've just pushed a massive cleanup to the TODO list [0, 1]: 1. Consolidate disorganized items (spread across multiple releases, unclear, etc.). 2. Move completed items to TODO_archive. Take a look and tell me what you think! Excitingly, this means that, 9 or fewer items remain for

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Dev: DreamPlug Networking Fixed?

Anders Jackson anders.jack...@gmail.com writes: Den 18 jan 2014 23:10 skrev Nick Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com: If the system detects an interface without a MAC address, we'll try to use macchanger to set it, or just generate a dummy MAC address (00:00:00:XX:XX:XX). The first octet should

[Freedombox-discuss] Dev: DreamPlug Networking Fixed?

Hi folks, I just pushed a fix to the broken DreamPlug networking to FreedomBox-Setup. If the system detects an interface without a MAC address, we'll try to use macchanger to set it, or just generate a dummy MAC address (00:00:00:XX:XX:XX). Should be good enough to work around DreamPlug

[Freedombox-discuss] DreamPlug Bootloaders?

Hi folks, please reply if you have a DreamPlug. I'm trying to get to the bottom of the Fix DreamPlug MAC Addresses 1.0 TODO item [0], and I suspect I'll need copies of an original bootloader image, if any still exist. I haven't dug too deeply into it, so maybe I won't end up needing that, but

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Up-to-date Dreamplug build recipe?

Chris Hamlin cham...@blackridge.us writes: Where is there a correct, complete current recipe for building and running Freedombox on a Dreamplug, including the boot firmware? Many obsolete recipes scattered about fail in one way or another, seeming to have fallen into dependency hell. A

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

Nick Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote: The network setup is done at first boot in freedombox-setup/first-run.d/05_network, and there I was told by jsullevan to use eth1, not eth0, on the dreamplug. What is correct

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

Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com writes: [Petter Reinholdtsen 2013-12-29] I've uploaded the current source as version 0.3.0.0.git.20131229-1. Happy to report that this time plinth was accepted into Debian unstable, URL: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/plinth.html . Yay! One step closer

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] LDAP

Bdale Garbee bd...@gag.com writes: 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. ...Clearly not critical path, but this is another possible task for someone out there reading who

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] LDAP

Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk writes: Which applications do you have in mind which stores their data in LDAP? Or do you envision (even more!) applications written from scratch specific for FreedomBox? I was imagining using LDAP as the ACL for application data, not as a data store itself,

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] LDAP

Simo s...@ssimo.org writes: On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 19:08 -0600, Nick Daly wrote: Time to do a lot of LDAP (or Kerberos, or...) learning. Do yourself a favor, nix their auth system and use apache modules, mediawiki has a module to understand REMOTE_USER, so should other services like

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Dev: Review: Plinth First-Connection Design Published

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Nick Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I've published some notes on Plinths' first-connection process [0]. Please read through them and send pull requests or changes and comments to the list. 0: https://github.com/NickDaly/Plinth/blob/master/doc

[Freedombox-discuss] Dev: Review: Plinth First-Connection Design Published

Hi folks, I've published some notes on Plinths' first-connection process [0]. Please read through them and send pull requests or changes and comments to the list. Also, please help fill out Plinth's LICENSING file so we can get Debian package approval! Thanks, Nick pgp_5lJetMqOc.pgp

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

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com wrote: [Nick Daly] fix /etc/network/interface allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp Why 'allow-hotplug' and not 'auto'? 'allow-hotplug' is obsolete, as far as I know, and require network-manager to be running

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Fwd: [Cryptography] DNSNMC deprecates Certificate Authorities and fixes HTTPS security

Sandy Harris sandyinch...@gmail.com writes: Worth a look for use on the Box? Namecoin is YAINS (yet another interesting naming system) and definitely worth a look. At this point, I'd appreciate if someone could write a FreedomBuddy-Namecoin bridge, that would allow Namecoin to update the

[Freedombox-discuss] Dev: Networking Interface Config?

Hi folks, I'm trying to fix the /etc/network/interface misconfiguration in the Freedom-Maker generated images, but I'm not sure where best to apply the fix. The underlying issue is that the interface file doesn't include these lines: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp If you have

[Freedombox-discuss] Dev: Current Plinth Bugs

I'm sure these problems have already been solved, but I'm not sure how. Ideas? Patches? Fork! https://github.com/NickDaly/Plinth/ * Conceptual Bugs ** Communicate Securely Between Processes The owncloud setup process has no idea what the right mysql user password is. How do we tell

[Freedombox-discuss] Plinth VM Build Scripts

Hi folks, I recently had someone ask for the scripts I use to test FreedomBox packages on empty VMs. So, I thought I'd clean them up and post them to the list in case anybody else finds them useful: http://paste.debian.net/67606/ You'll need to apply this diff:

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Bootstrapping a Freedombox contact list

Tim Retout dioc...@debian.org writes: I've been thinking about the problems involved in the initial setup of a Freedombox, particularly the challenge of finding your friends' Freedombox addresses. Has anyone else been through this already? I couldn't see anything which really spelled this

[Freedombox-discuss] Dev: Granting Users Service Access?

Hi folks, did we ever arrive at a consensus on a general solution to the user-level password storage/accounts (see the Kerberos and remctl discussion in September)? I'm looking into a similar question: how do we safely grant different users access to multiple services on the box? Please let me

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

Hi everybody, I noticed, this morning, that my laptop's clock has skewed from real time by about 5 minutes. I wondered why and then realized that no NTP services were installed. After quickly putting ntpdate on my laptop, I realized that none of the NTP services are dependencies of

[Freedombox-discuss] Dev: Packaging Incompatible Plinth Changes

(Trying to remember start all dev-oriented mail with Dev: subject) Going forward, you'll want to patch out cfg.py instead of plinth.sample*.config. It should provide the same results with few line changes overall. Let me know if that's an issue. The only meaningful edits to this file, ever,

[Freedombox-discuss] Today's Upstream Updates

Hi folks, today's updates include: - Freedom-Maker Setup package reviewed and updated. - Freedom-Maker Setup now puts Plinth behind SSL. - We should put JWChat behind SSL as well. - JWChat and Plinth should both be in root sub-directories, not custom ports. - Freedom-Maker has been

[Freedombox-discuss] More of today's Upstream Updates

Also, per the FreedomBox TODOs list [0], all of Plinth's FBX 1.0 TODOs have been completed (subject to verification and bug reports, of course). Champagne? Nick 0: http://github.com/nickdaly/freedombox-todos pgp_exmEUessI.pgp Description: PGP signature

[Freedombox-discuss] Weekly Work: 9/9 - 9/15

Hi folks, below are the changes that I've been able to make to the FreedomBox projects this week. Unfortunately, due to UGM at work, I was only able to put time in on Sunday, but was able to get (what I feel is) a sizeable amount completed anyway. We've gone from 15 to 4 outstanding Github

[Freedombox-discuss] Rebasing FreedomBuddy?

Hi everybody, I'm considering publicly rebasing FreedomBuddy because of a commit that merged a branch before it should've been published [0, 1]. Are there any other (better) options than the (rather nuclear) public rebase? I'm also considering just creating another head and cherry picking

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Are there regular developer meetings on IRC?

Petter Reinholdtsen p...@hungry.com writes: [Nick Daly] Nope. Good idea though. What times work for you? Sunday afternoons are usually best for me. Most work days around 10:00 +0200 and almost all evenings after 20:00 +0200 would work for me. I notice you are on timezone -0500, which

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Kerberos and remctl instead of exmachina?

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: Quoting Tim Retout (2013-09-03 09:31:20) The debian-edu project handles more complex configuration using cfengine - if they found it necessary, I suspect this project will. (I believe Petter might know more about this than

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] debconf is the only way...

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: Quoting Nick Daly (2013-09-03 16:24:38) On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: Therefore I see debconf as the *only* possibility we have: Debian package maintainers *must* support

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] How can I get plinth listening on a public address?

I'm looking to merge a patch this weekend (Saturday morning or Sunday morning?) that should allow Plinth to be generally accessible. HOWEVER: that patch creates its own set of problems: now Plinth (and thus, your FBX's administrative tools) are now globally accessible and must be actively

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] freedomBox download and install for testing

I don't know if it'll work with a Pentium 4. It *should* be fine, but there might be details that might prevent it from booting, I don't recall. You might also try running make virtualbox-image if you like VMs. On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Quiliro Ordóñez quil...@congresolibre.org wrote:

[Freedombox-discuss] Groklaw Ends :(

I've been on vacation for the last week or so, so I haven't kept up with emails, but I'll get back on it tomorrow and Monday. Thought you might like to see this, though: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175 Nick pgpWlPmlKaEgD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] DreamPlug advice before I buy it

Hi Rachid, thanks for mailing! Apologies for the late reply. I want you to be aware of two things: 1. There are several Dream Plugs from GlobalScale. Only the original DreamPlug has been tested. We haven't tested the D2 Plug, so you probably want to buy the original DreamPlug (unless

[Freedombox-discuss] Key Report Published

Hi folks, I've published the key-report tool. It reviews your PGP key ring and reports on keys that will expire soon. https://gitorious.org/key-report https://github.com/NickDaly/key-report It's handy, I've already warned a few people who have keys that will expire soon. I'll send replies to

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] freedomBox download and install for testing

Thanks, Nick, I was hoping you had them somewhere. Can you make your tracker the preferred source on the wiki for right now? On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Nick Hardiman n...@internetmachines.co.uk wrote: I have images from April.

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] public + private http services

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Timur Mehrvarz timur.mehrv...@riseup.net wrote: On 15.07.2013 16:04, Timur Mehrvarz wrote: How do you make sure some http services are only visible on the internal network - while other services are visible on all networks? It depends on how your internal

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Community (London)

Mark Richards writes: I'm interested in helping out from sunny London and if it doesn't already exist, it would be great if there are enough of us interested in setting up a developer and user group for freedombox and/or related software. Anyone else in London interested? Is this happening in

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Yocto?

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Jack Wilborn jkwilb...@gmail.com wrote: On the DP, did you add the man-db as a built package in the DP build. It should've been pushed as of yesterday. I added it two weeks ago and forgot to push it. Though I don't now remember if it did push successfully or

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Yocto?

Sandy Harris writes: https://www.yoctoproject.org/about Hmmm. Should the Freedom Box project use that? You're welcome to give it a go. I came across Aboriginal Linux today (http://landley.net/aboriginal/), and that might be a good idea, too, as that's already used to build the Raspberry Pi

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Update Tracking: FBX Planet?

Nick Daly writes: Fortunately, we already have a website set up to make [tracking] easier: planeteria.org/freedombox So, if you know any feeds that should be tracked on the Planet, please post them here on the mailing list or on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/feeds

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Latest build

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Jack Wilborn jkwilb...@gmail.com wrote: Seemed to be the trick. I wonder how many other things Im missing. Build went ok and took about 22 minutes. I can't believe how fast this computer is compared to the two next to it, of course it's at least a decade

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Latest build

Jack Wilborn writes: Nick, I deleted my build directories and did a make. I was wodering if I hosed it up somehow as the changes for the touch /var/freedombox/first-run did not seem to get over to the build part. Was I supposed to pull or something to get the complete items? I also have a

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Is there a list of executables that are on the DP, part of what's shipped?

Jack Wilborn jkwilb...@gmail.com writes: Hi all... Was using the DP and tried to do a man for information. I can't seem to locate the man program. It is not in /usr/bin but all of the .gz files are in the proper place. Is this never been built for the DP or? To get back to your original

[Freedombox-discuss] Update Tracking: FBX Planet?

So, folks who complain about the impossibility to see into the development or even change process are pretty right... When I lose track of what's been updated recently, it's gotta be impossible for anybody else. Fortunately, we already have a website set up to make that easier:

[Freedombox-discuss] Freedom-Maker Booted Cues?

So, one of the most annoying things about the DreamPlug is that it's nearly impossible to tell when it's finished booting. Anyone who's interested in getting started on contributing code to FreedomMaker could fork it and create a signal-running.sh file that used Festival or the blinkenlights

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Virtual Machine Scripting and Tiny Tiny RSS

Nick Hardiman n...@internetmachines.co.uk writes: Do you have a rundown yet of how to * stick exmachina (http://gitorious.org/exmachina) at the back, * proxy (http://www.privoxy.org, https://github.com/jvasile/freedombox-privoxy) in front, and * various apps into LXC? From a

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Found the firmware for the Dreamplug...

You *might* be able to simplify that to: $ echo 1 /sys/class/leds/guruplug\:green\:wmode/brightness $ echo 0 /sys/class/leds/guruplug\:red\:wmode/brightness I haven't tried this out myself, because my DreamPlug's currently sitting in a half-assembled state... However, it would be fantastic

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Announcing FreedomBuddy v0.5: Memento

I've updated the version of python-gnupg FBuddy pulls to Isis's version that's less attackable. If you're using FBuddy, delete the contents of your build directory and run make again. Nick pgpAk_6_WinXZ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Announcing FreedomBuddy v0.5: Memento

Nick Daly nick.m.d...@gmail.com writes: Hi folks, FreedomBuddy version 0.5 has just been released and pushed: https://github.com/NickDaly/FreedomBuddy https://gitorious.org/freedombuddy/freedombuddy Make that version 0.5.1. This version fixes a stupid bug (connectors couldn't

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