[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox Unstable Image 2013.0130 Available

[Nick Hardiman]

I want to install bittorrent on my squeeze server, to help serve up FreedomBox images (Virtualbox and SD card images). 

Is this a good place to start?

How to setup a transmission bittorrent server under a debian based system
http://felix-paetow.de/?p=139


Nick Hardiman
nick at internetmachines.co.uk
@intmachines



On 31 Jan 2013, at 12:34, Nick M. Daly <nick.m.daly at gmail.com> wrote:

>                    FreedomBox Weekly Image Report
>                    ==============================
> 
> Author: Nick Daly
> Date: 2012-11-11 Sun
> 
> Hi folks, welcome to the 17th weekly FreedomBox test image and progress
> report.  This week, there isn't an SD card image and there is only a
> VirtualBox image, due to time constraints.  Unzip the VirtualBox image
> and run it in VirtualBox to try the system out.
> 
> 
> Table of Contents
> =================
> 1 Introduction
> 2 How do I try it out?
> 3 Changes
> 4 Outstanding TODOs
>    4.1 Freedom Maker: https://github.com/nickdaly/freedom-maker
>    4.2 Plinth: https://github.com/nickdaly/plinth
>    4.3 FreedomBox Privoxy: https://github.com/jvasile/freedombox-privoxy
>    4.4 FreedomBuddy: https://gitorious.org/freedombuddy/freedombuddy
>    4.5 Project Publish: https://gitorious.org/project-publish/project-publish
>    4.6 PlugServer Setup: https://bitbucket.org/nickdaly/plugserver
>    4.7 With SQLite: https://github.com/jvasile/withsqlite
> 
> 
> 1 Introduction
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
>  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
> 
> 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]
> 
> 3 Changes
> ~~~~~~~~~~
> 
>  Three months of changes.  Itemized list soon.
> 
> 4 Outstanding TODOs
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> 4.1 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.
> 
> 4.2 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.
> 
> 4.3 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.
> 
> 4.4 FreedomBuddy: [https://gitorious.org/freedombuddy/freedombuddy]
> ====================================================================
> 
>   A resilient communication tool.
> 
>   - Send all connections through CLI conector.  This is pretty broken
>     right now, but should be simple to fix.
>   - Build an SSH-VPN connector.
>   - Fix Outstanding FIXMEs
> 
> 4.5 Project Publish: [https://gitorious.org/project-publish/project-publish]
> =============================================================================
> 
>   An easy-to-use publishing tool.
> 
>   - *Complete*
> 
> 4.6 PlugServer Setup: [https://bitbucket.org/nickdaly/plugserver]
> ==================================================================
> 
>   A configuration tool.
> 
>   - *Complete*
> 
> 4.7 With SQLite: [https://github.com/jvasile/withsqlite]
> =========================================================
> 
>   A database-management Python package.
> 
>   - *Complete*
> 
> Enjoy!
> Nick
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