distribution release , aimed at creating home servers that enable the deployment of personal network services on controlled hardware. Users can utilize such servers to store their personal data, run network services, and ensure secure communications without resorting to external centralized systems. Boot images for AMD64, i386, and ARM architectures (there are builds for Beaglebone Black boards). The builds are intended for installation on USB, SD/MMC, or SSD storage devices, from which a fully configured working environment is immediately available with management via a web interface.
Freedomebone can be used to operate within the anonymous Tor network (the running services work as hidden Tor services and are accessible via an onion address) or as a node , where each node is connected through neighboring nodes of other users (both autonomous mesh networks and those with gateways to the internet are supported). The mesh network is created over Wi-Fi and is based on the use of and with the ability to select protocols and .
The distribution also provides for setting up a mail server, web server (including packages for quick deployment of chats, webmail, social networks, blogs, Wiki), VoIP communication platforms, file synchronization systems, multimedia data storage, streaming, VPN, backups, etc.
The key difference from a similar project provides only free software and has no firmware or driver elements containing non-free components. This feature, on one hand, makes the product completely transparent and free from unaccountable components, but, on the other hand, limits the range of supported hardware (for example, Raspberry Pi boards are not supported due to reliance on proprietary inserts). Additionally, FreedomBox is directly built from Debian, while Freedombone only utilizes certain packages, also offering additional applications not found in the official Debian repositories and altering encryption-related parameters according to the recommendations of Freedombone also offers a mail server configured by default to use GPG and provides support for Mash networks. The Freedombone project was founded in late 2013, while FreedomBox has been available since February 2011.
The new release builds on previous developments and includes updates to the bundled applications. It features support for
VPN as well as additional applications like PixelFed, mpd, Zap, and Grocy, along with several games, including Minetest. Due to maintenance complexity, GNU Social, PostActiv, and Pleroma have been removed from the distribution, with plans to add a server supporting the ActivityPub protocol in the future. Nftables has been employed as the packet filtering toolkit.
Components for deploying community-owned networks have been added, where the networking equipment and infrastructure belong to the community. Freedombone allows for the detection of other nodes in such networks and enables the creation of custom nodes for them.
Source: opennet.ru
