freedombone/doc/EN/index.org

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#+AUTHOR: Bob Mottram
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#+KEYWORDS: freedombox, debian, beaglebone, red matrix, email, web server, home server, internet, censorship, surveillance, social network, irc, jabber
#+DESCRIPTION: Turn the Beaglebone Black into a personal communications server
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"/With the increasing move of our computing to cloud infrastructures, we give up the control of our computing to the managers of those infrastructures. Our terminals (laptops, desktops) might now be running entirely on Free Software, but this is increasingly irrelevant given that most of what actually matters gets executed on a remote closed system that we don’t control. The Free Software community needs to work to help users keep the control of all their computing, by developing suitable alternatives and facilitating their deployment./"

-- Lucas Nussbaum
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So you want to run your own internet services? Email, chat, VoIP, web sites, file synchronisation, wikis, blogs, social networks, media hosting, backups, VPN. Freedombone enables you to do all of that in a self-hosted way, where you keep control of your data and it resides in your own home.

A list of other supported ARM boards [[./boards.html][can be found here]], or you can install onto an old laptop or netbook. Some installation instructions for different use cases are:

 * [[./homeserver.html][Typical installation]]
 * Installing [[./beaglebone.html][on a Beaglebone Black]]
 * Installing on an [[./debianinstall.html][existing Debian system]]
 * Installing [[./armbian.html][on Armbian]], for unsupported ARM boards such as Raspberry Pi
 * Creating a dedicated [[./socialinstance.html][fediverse instance]] for a single user or to host a community
 * Deploying a [[./mesh.html][mesh network]] which can operate with or without the internet

After installation it's possible that you might want some advice on how to run your system and set up apps to work nicely with it.

 * [[./domains.html][How to get a domain name]]
 * [[./security.html][Improving security]]
 * [[./users.html][Adding or removing users]]
 * [[./apps.html][Apps available on the system]]
 * [[./faq.html][Frequently Asked Questions]]
 * [[./mobile.html][Advice on setting up a mobile phone]]
 * [[./support.html][I like this project. How can I help to support it?]]


If you find bugs, or want to add a new app to this system see the [[./devguide.html][Developers Guide]] and [[./codeofconduct.html][Code of Conduct]]. There is a Matrix chat room available at *#fbone:matrix.freedombone.net*.

Ready made disk images which can be copied onto USB or microSD drives are [[./downloads/current][available here]].

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This site can also be accessed via a Tor browser at http://yjxlc3imv7obva4grjae6u3qw527koaytrgjgdp364hmthrst3jodiid.onion. This documentation is under the [[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3.txt][GNU Free Documentation License version 1.3]]
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