We are working on adding a Nextcloud app, but more changes are needed to get it ready for general use. So the app is not enabled or installable yet, but it should be ready very soon.
The Nextcloud app will be unique in that it uses a container provided by the upstream project. This is in contrast to all other FreedomBox apps, which are installed from Debian packages.
FreedomBox is now available as an operating system that can be selected in Raspberry Pi Imager [1] [2], a user-friendly tool for creating bootable media for Raspberry Pi devices.
FreedomBox can be found in the section “Other specific-purpose OS” when Raspberry Pi 4 or Raspberry Pi 3 is selected as the device.
Images are available using Debian stable and testing.
I've been thinking for a long time on setting up a VPS to self host some services but lack of time and energy to do it properly (as this post describes) is blocking me.
Yet, I'm also more inclined to share the load in a coop fashion so I may never do it, or do it just for learning and never go to "production".
@jorgesanz thanks for the link, it is a good usable non-technical take. Only I didn't understand the bent towards rootless containers at the end, seems less performant for no benefit.
I found myself looking for a desktop wiki today. I used Zim several years ago. Currently using logseq just for its journals feature, but after a year of use I am still not used to "everything is a list item" paradigm.
I wanted a messy desktop wiki which I don't care too much about maintaining. Unfortunately, I cared too much about maintaining a clean logseq notebook.
I found that TiddlyWiki is the simplest solution. Started using TiddlyDesktop backed by a Syncthing folder.
@njoseph Perhaps the Federated Wiki would suit you. I would like the Federated Wiki to become part of the FreedomBox applications. Perhaps we could work together on this? #FederatedWiki#FreedomBox
Translations were updated for Albanian, Chinese (Simplified), German, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Turkish, and Ukrainian. 29 people contributed to this release. 😲
FreedomBox disk images [1] meant for various hardware boards can now be downloaded via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network...After downloading the disk image, download the signature file separately to verify [2] the image’s authenticity.
#Shaarli is a bookmarking service in #FreedomBox that stores each bookmark as a comment in a single PHP file.
This is actually appropriate design (in the sense of appropriate technology). A good example of #smallTech design. A big tech bookmarking service would have used some NoSQL database technology such as Cassandra, not a simple flat file.
Shaarli works great for thousands of bookmarks. Who cares if it scales to millions or not? :blobcatgooglyshrug:
We have a FreedomBox app for @kiwix now. Coming to a FreedomBox near you! (in a few days)
Thanks to @legoktm for maintaining the kiwix-tools package in @debian
Big thanks to the community deployment teams in the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh for motivating me to add this app to FreedomBox. You are the real heroes distributing our work to the masses and spreading the word about #Kiwix, #Debian and #FreedomBox. 👏
And, thanks to our friends from Kerala for organizing #DebConf23 ❤️
#FreedomBox 23.18 has been released (to Debian unstable). Type hints are now used, and enforced, throughout the code base, which led to fixing a few hard-to-find issues.