Hi folks, welcome to the Nth weekly FreedomBox test image and progress report. These images are a way to test the current (incomplete) FreedomBox build.
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://download.internetmachines.co.uk/tracker/freedombox-images/
https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker/freedombox-unstable.torrent
https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker/freedombox-unstable.tar.bz2
https://www.betweennowhere.net/tracker/freedombox-images/
Today’s image was produced with:
$ make weekly-image
Right now, it serves as a privacy protecting proxy.
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. - plinth
- config
The system maintenance user. Generic FreedomBox maintenance will be conducted by this user.
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:
The checksums for each file, useful for additional verification, also follow.
| md5sum | |
| sha512sum |
| md5sum | |
| sha512sum |
See the beta-release TODOs and the 1.0-release TODOs for details. Please take entries off the list and help finish them.
Enjoy! Nick