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That's a good little installation document. I'm going to give that a go with a raspberry pi when I get home.

How up to date are the instructions?

It's not little - it's quite comprehensive. Excellent job done. It's explained quite well in a very enjoyable writing style.

I think anyone who knows enough to add a banner to a webpage can work their way through the document.

It's a good idea to promote it as an alternative because from the outside at least, it seems freedombox has lost momentum since the privoxy release, even though the idea is sound.

I didn't mean to belittle it all, I'm well impressed with it. Nicely explained for the most part and I saw afterwards that it's up on github too so it's easy to send in corrections for it.

I had to look up Friendica and Movim to see what they were (I'd never heard of them before), it'd be nice to have links to the respective homepages, so off I'll go and add them in.

Pull requests for corrections or installation sequences are welcome.

No problems, I can see one or two bits that I think could do with clarifying (not least to get rid of emacs :P ). I'll have a go at it this evening and take notes.

The particular editor isn't all that important. You could just use nano or vi. I don't think any of the instructions contain anything really Emacs specific.

I happen to use Emacs and the source for the site is an org-mode document, which makes editing it very easy. Exporting it as HTML is a few key presses.

As a vi user, i'd be willing to leave the great war to one side and give nano the thumbs up, many people not used to the console struggle to quit out of vi or emacs while being competent with sublime text or notepad++. nano works better for them.

Only messing. I just couldn't resist bringing up the great editor debate :)

Yes, that's the intention. Anyone with minimal skills should be able to follow the instructions in a straightforward way.

Until such time as FreedomBox or maybe ArkOS are in a more developed condition this is about the best I can manage.

These instructions have been put together recently - mostly in January this year. It's an ongoing effort to include as much useful communications software as possible.

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