[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2012.0930 Available
Nick M. Daly
nick.m.daly at gmail.com
Mon Oct 1 02:55:39 UTC 2012
FreedomBox Weekly Image Report
==============================
Author: Nick Daly
Date: 2012-09-30 Sun
Hi folks, welcome to the fourteenth weekly FreedomBox test image and
progress report.
These images include several FreedomBox-related projects. The changes
are changes made by project contributors in the last week that have made
it into the test image. The outstanding TODOs are the changes needed
before the beta-release is complete. If you'd like to contribute in any
way, fork and send me a pull request.
The image is available at:
[https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker]
[https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker/freedombox-unstable.torrent]
[https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker/freedombox-unstable.tar.bz2]
Today's image was produced with:
$ make weekly-image
Table of Contents
=================
^ Introduction
2 How do I try it out?
3 Verification
3.1 ~freedombox-unstable_2012.0930_dreamplug-armel-card.img.tar.bz2~
3.2 ~freedombox-unstable_2012.0930_virtualbox-i386-hdd.vdi.tar.bz2~
4 Issues
5 Changes
6 Outstanding TODOs
6.1 Freedom Maker: https://github.com/nickdaly/freedom-maker
6.2 Plinth: https://github.com/nickdaly/plinth
6.3 FreedomBox Privoxy: https://github.com/jvasile/freedombox-privoxy
6.4 FreedomBuddy: https://gitorious.org/freedombuddy/freedombuddy
6.5 Project Publish: https://gitorious.org/project-publish/project-publish
6.6 PlugServer Setup: https://bitbucket.org/nickdaly/plugserver
6.7 With SQLite: https://github.com/jvasile/withsqlite
2 How do I try it out?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There are two ways you can test it out. The easy way is to use
VirtualBox and run the image in a virtual machine. These instructions
have more details:
[http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/VirtualBoxImages]
You can also install the image to your DreamPlug directly. If you've
bought your own DreamPlug, you'll probably need to flash the firmware,
which requires a JTAG. Follow these instructions:
[http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Firmware]
These are the users and their passwords:
root: freedom
The root user.
fbx: frdm
The normal user. All the FreedomBox tools are stored in
=/home/fbx=.
3 Verification
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You can validate that the files have been downloaded correctly and
haven't changed since I've published them by checking the files'
signatures.
First, download my key:
$ gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-key D95C32042EE54FFDB25EC3489F2733F40928D23A
Then, verify each file's signature:
$ gpg --verify freedombox-unstable_2012.0930_dreamplug-armel-card.tar.bz2.sig freedombox-unstable_2012.0930_dreamplug-armel-card.tar.bz2
$ gpg --verify freedombox-unstable_2012.0930_virtualbox-i386-hdd.vdi.tar.bz2.sig freedombox-unstable_2012.0930_virtualbox-i386-hdd.vdi.tar.bz2
The checksums for each file, useful for additional verification, also
follow.
3.1 ~freedombox-unstable_2012.0930_dreamplug-armel-card.img.tar.bz2~
=====================================================================
md5sum d8649d2014866bb312fe72de9612cd5a
sha512sum 0fc62016ff3173eec5e3ec16d7e3291d625fd573061024d4b4bb69c2d33fba59507a12663c6a74c065dc748d4337ea7cf4326e87a6f501804b9e345963fb0642
3.2 ~freedombox-unstable_2012.0930_virtualbox-i386-hdd.vdi.tar.bz2~
====================================================================
md5sum dd39cd79eb533dc67fc2469ee5ad1043
sha512sum d99c9c27d393b7a2255299614c02053a221aca806d1e51d33f0863c74e662340b9013cc290ee3bcc0a9568a919c7e0023c9c8fa8476dbd9699f5434dc87a22db
4 Issues
~~~~~~~~~
- I believe I've fixed the microSD non-booting bug, but haven't had a
chance to test. Would appreciate many eyes on this one.
In doing so, I've broken the USB image, so we need a solution that
doesn't involve manually correcting =freedom-maker/source/etc/fstab=
for each image.
5 Changes
~~~~~~~~~~
- FreedomBuddy is easier to test.
- I've merged almost all of FBuddy's security bugs into one. Two
currently remain: one's pretty easy to fix (the authentication bug),
the other involves correcting the CLI/socket controller.
6 Outstanding TODOs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6.1 Freedom Maker: [https://github.com/nickdaly/freedom-maker]
===============================================================
The FBX image build tool.
- The setup process generates GPG keys for user.
- Setup generates GPG and SSL keys for the box itself.
6.2 Plinth: [https://github.com/nickdaly/plinth]
=================================================
The UI layer.
- Turn DHCP (for clients) on/off through Plinth
- Select DHCP or Static IP in Plinth
- Integrate basic OpenVPN settings into Plinth
- Integrate Dnsmasq into Plinth
- Integrate FreedomBuddy into Plinth.
- Hook FreedomBuddy into SSH.
- Add more OpenVPN FreedomBuddy setup instructions.
6.3 FreedomBox Privoxy: [https://github.com/jvasile/freedombox-privoxy]
========================================================================
A privacy-focused web-proxy.
- Privoxy should use the released HTTPS Everywhere regexp ruleset.
- Add enabling and disabling Privoxy to the Plinth UI.
6.4 FreedomBuddy: [https://gitorious.org/freedombuddy/freedombuddy]
====================================================================
A resilient communication tool.
- Build an SSH-VPN connector.
- Fix Outstanding FIXMEs
6.5 Project Publish: [https://gitorious.org/project-publish/project-publish]
=============================================================================
An easy-to-use publishing tool.
- *Complete*
6.6 PlugServer Setup: [https://bitbucket.org/nickdaly/plugserver]
==================================================================
A configuration tool.
- *Complete*
6.7 With SQLite: [https://github.com/jvasile/withsqlite]
=========================================================
A database-management Python package.
- *Complete*
Enjoy!
Nick
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