[Freedombox-discuss] Confused about this project

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Fri Mar 4 23:20:14 UTC 2011


On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 05:57:51PM -0500, James Vasile wrote:
>On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 21:58:48 +0000, Clint Adams <clint at debian.org> 
>wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:40:24PM -0600, Anthony Papillion wrote:
>> > When I joined the list about a week and a half ago, I thought that 
>> > the goal of the project was to create a Freedom Box based on a 
>> > pluggable computer like the SheevaPlug or PogoPlug. From what I 
>> > read, the hardware platform had pretty much been decided and all 
>> > that was left was to create a software stack.
>>
>> You are correct.  The project is to integrate software on a plug 
>> computer, running Debian.  If it runs on other platforms, great, but 
>> that is not the main focus.
>>
>> I agree that the first step in that is ease of administration, as 
>> described by John Gilmore[0].  Unfortunately, it seems that most of 
>> us find that step to be the least interesting to work on.
>
>I threw together some web infrastructure that we might hang a UI on. 
>(It's the one I showed you a few weeks ago.)  Maybe I'll have time to 
>clean it up this weekend and get it in a repo.

Cool!


  - Jonas

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