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FreedomBox at FOSSCON 2019 (posted 2019-08-23)
On Saturday, August 17th, the FreedomBox Foundation attended the FOSSCON conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the second straight year. At our table in the exhibition hall, we saw many familiar faces and met many news ones.
A New Stable Version of FreedomBox (posted 2019-07-16)
The FreedomBox Foundation is pleased to announce that a new stable version of the FreedomBox software system has been released. This release coincides with the launch of Debian's latest stable version, Debian 10 (codenamed "Buster"). Since FreedomBox is a Debian Pure Blend, its release cycle follows Debian's release cycle.
Support For Lamobo R1 and PINE A64-LTS (posted 2019-06-10)
We are pleased to announce that FreedomBox now supports two new hardware models: the Lamobo R1 single-board computer and PINE A64-LTS single-board computer. This means that the FreedomBox team will publish operating system images for each of these two boards whenever a new version of FreedomBox is released. For now, images for these two boards are only available for the Testing and Nightly versions of FreedomBox, but images will be available for the Stable version soon. Download the images here.
Bulgarian Linux Community Discusses FreedomBox (posted 2019-05-31)
We were very proud to see that a presentation about FreedomBox was delivered at a meeting of the Linux Users Group - Bulgaria (LUG-BG) in May 2019. The presentation was delivered in Bulgarian by Tsvetan Usunov, the Founder and Owner of Olimex.
If you speak Bulgarian or know anyone who does, be sure to watch and/or share this video: LUG-BG 2019 LT: FreedomBox (Цветан Узунов)
Supporting Two New Hardware Models (posted 2019-05-28)
We are pleased to announce that FreedomBox now supports two new hardware models: the Banana Pro™ single-board computer and the Pine64(+) single-board computer. This means that the FreedomBox team will publish operating system images for each of these two boards whenever a new version of FreedomBox is released.
Announcing the Launch of Sales of Pioneer Edition FreedomBox Home Servers (posted 2019-04-22)
The FreedomBox Foundation is proud to announce that sales of the first commercially available FreedomBox have launched. Orders can be placed here.
The product, dubbed a “Pioneer Edition FreedomBox Home Server Kit,” is being sold by Olimex, a company which specializes in Open Source Hardware. The product includes pocket-sized server hardware, an SD card with the operating system pre-installed, and a backup battery which can power the hardware for 4-5 hours in case of outages. It sells for €82 and ships globally.
Announcing the FreedomBox Forum and Live Demo (posted 2019-03-29)
Sales of the the much anticipated Pioneer FreedomBox Home Servers launch soon. And our team has been preparing for the day that hardware hits the market. In anticipation of sales, we are proud to launch two new services for our users: a FreedomBox Forum and a live demo of FreedomBox!
Announcing Pioneer FreedomBox Kits (posted 2019-03-26)
On Sunday, March 24th at the Free Software Foundation's annual LibrePlanet conference, the FreedomBox Foundation announced that it has partnered with Olimex to sell Pioneer FreedomBox Home Server Kits.
We have been building the FreedomBox software since 2011—that's eight years. And our supporters have been asking for purchasable kits for about as many years. We've heard your voices, and we’re doing this for you.
Retiring Two Hardware Models (posted 2019-01-08)
After an open discussion, the FreedomBox developer community has decided to retire the DreamPlug and Raspberry Pi 1 hardware models from our lineup of custom FreedomBox images.
For a number of reasons, which are recorded in our public call notes from December 8th, 2018, the FreedomBox community decided that the DreamPlug and Raspberry Pi 1 hardware models are no longer suitable for our software system. Support for these two models was dropped for a number of reasons, including their low performance-to-cost ratios, lack of proper kernel updates, and dependence on non-free software.
FreedomBox 0.9 Images Available (posted 2016-07-15)
A week ago we have completed building FreedomBox images for 0.9 as 0.9-rc2 and made them available for release testing. No major issues have been found in the images and they are now the 0.9 final release images.