FreedomBox and Debian
I ve decided it s time to tag a v0.1.0 release on my roguelike game project, Stagger. It s more of a small demo than a full game at this point. It is turn-based, and has purely text-based graphics , like the original Rogue. Here s a screenshot : #####################..................##.@................##....…
FreedomBox is a Debian blend that makes it easier to run your own server. Approximately every two years, there is a new stable release of Debian. This year s release will be called Debian 13 'trixie'. This post will provide an overview of changes between FreedomBox 23.6 (the version that shipped in Debian 12 'bookworm') and [ ]
snac2, currently available in Debian testing and unstable, is described by its upstream as A simple, minimalistic ActivityPub instance written in portable C. It provides an ActivityPub server with a bare-bones web interface. It does not use JavaScript or require a database. ActivityPub is the protocol for federated social networks that is implemented by Mastodon, [ ]
When run on Debian stable, FreedomBox has an optional feature called Frequent Feature Updates . If this feature is enabled, it has 2 effects: However for bookworm-backports, there was a small change in the repository for bookworm-backports, which meant that our approach to apt pinning was no longer correct. The change is a difference between the [ ]
This post is very late, but better late than never! I want to take a look back at the work that was done on FreedomBox during 2022. Several apps were added to FreedomBox in 2022. The email server app (that was developed by a Google Summer of Code student back in 2021) was finally made [ ]
One of the apps running on my FreedomBox that I use frequently is bepasty. bepasty is essentially a self-hosted, free software pastebin. It allows you to paste text, or upload any type of file. You can also set an expiration date for when the file or text will automatically be deleted. If you are uploading [ ]
FreedomBox is a Debian pure blend that reduces the effort needed to run and maintain a small personal server. Being a pure blend means that all of the software packages which are used in FreedomBox are included in Debian. Most of these packages are not specific to FreedomBox: they are common things such as Apache [ ]