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- We have not yet implemented the main reason they exist. To guide users to establish reachability with Tor hidden services, Pagekite, Dynamic DNS, etc. - We now have a 'Next steps' page that talks about configuring network connections. The networks page linked from here has these steps prominently listed. - In the future we will implement a wizard for reachability and these steps will still be used. However, they don't have to part of first setup. They can add them as notification and as part of next steps page. - It is good to have a simplified first setup wizard. It is seldom tested properly. Tests: - Run the first setup wizard by removing /var/lib/plinth/plinth.sqlite3 and running the service. Notice that the software update step is not shown and wizard completes successfully. [vexch: Minor quote fix in functional tests] Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa <sunil@medhas.org> Reviewed-by: Veiko Aasa <veiko17@disroot.org>
FreedomBox Service (Plinth)
The core functionality and web front-end of FreedomBox.
Description
FreedomBox is a community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for private, personal communications. It is a networking appliance designed to allow interfacing with the rest of the Internet under conditions of protected privacy and data security. It hosts applications such as blog, wiki, website, social network, email, web proxy and a Tor relay, on a device that can replace your Wi-Fi router, so that your data stays with you.
This module, called FreedomBox Service and also know as Plinth, is the core functionality and web interface to the functions of the FreedomBox. It is extensible and provides various applications of FreedomBox as modules. Each module or application provides simplified user interface to control the underlying functionality. As FreedomBox can act as a wireless router, it is possible to configure networking. It also allows configuration of basic system parameters such as time zone, hostname and automatic upgrades.
You can find more information about FreedomBox Service (Plinth) on the Plinth Wiki page, the FreedomBox Wiki and the FreedomBox Manual.
Getting Started
To have a running FreedomBox, first install Debian (Buster or higher) on a clean machine. Then run:
$ sudo apt install freedombox
Full instructions are available on FreedomBox Manual's QuickStart page.
For instructions on running the service on a local machine from source code, see INSTALL.md. For instructions on setting up for development purposes, see HACKING.md.
Contributing
See the HACKING.md file for contributing to FreedomBox Service (Plinth).
Localization
License
FreedomBox is distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License, Version 3 or later. A copy of AGPLv3 is available from the Free Software Foundation.