Applications which might be useful for the freedombox users
(users means the ones who use it, not tech-savy and comfortable with networking and other problems. It is user as opposed to developers. Else the word user is misleading, and should be avoided, imho. Yield for the hands on imperative, have at it).
Useful for others too, sure.
Some things to keep in mind, i will make short notes, as far i know it:
- decentralized
- already packaged in Debian
- not from contrib or non-free, and no: no means no. no further discussion of the matter
- user-friendly, easy, aka: kiss (keep it small and simple)
- as low on resources as possible (important for me, nadir)
A lot is already listed here:
wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud
debconf-video about the freedombox (intro, so to speak):
penta.debconf.org/dc11_schedule/events/...
A general overview of the social-web:
www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wik...
which includes decentralized social networks.
Most will be packaged for Debian i386.
I am not sure about being de-centralized and other needs.
It will need to be edited accordingly.
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social networking
- Gnu Social ### not de-centralized can be self-hosted (statusnet)
- for example daisycha.in ### but that would not be de-centralized
- we.riseup.net ### same problem
- freenet
- crabgrass ### not packaged
- I2P ### not packaged
- identica ### not de-centralized can be self-hosted identi.ca (statusnet)
- diaspora ### joindiaspora.com not de-centralized can be self-hosted see below.
- github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Insta...
- friendika ### project.friendika.com not de-centralized can be self-hosted.
- guifi ### en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guifi.net de-centralized ### guifi.net/en
- torchat ### code.google.com/p/torchat ### en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorChat
- hinezumi ### hinezumi.im
- owncloud owncloud.org/index.php/Main_Page
- buddycloud
- tonido
- retroshare
- citadele # kinda organizer, notes, calendar, etc, packaged for debian !
backup
- luckybackup
- deja-dup
- backup-manager #cli, in perl
- partimage, partclone
- rsync, rsnapshot or grsync do a good job, perhaps as a cron-job.
- backupninja ###said to be a meta-backup system, done via drag&drop to /etc/backup.d
security
- tor/polipo, or tor/privoxy, perhaps with vidalia
- seahorse/kwallet/gpa
- monkeysphere
- cryptsetup
- tomb ### tomb.dyne.org
filesharing
- git ### own server is anyting but easy, isn’t it?
- sparkleshare ### only in experimental (july 2011), depends on Mono !
- pastebinit ### not de-centralized, but for showing code, ok
(otoh, why not do /var/www/share, for tmp file sharing of txt files?)
- etherpad ### not de-centralized can be self-hosted etherpad.org
- sobby # decentraliced, client is gobby
- infinoted (current sobby) , client is gobby-infininote
- eyeos ### not de-centralized can be self-hosted try.eyeos.org
webserver
- apache
- lighttpd
- nginx
- and so on, and so on
websites
- kompozer #anything but easy :-)
- webgen
- geneweb ### yes?
- open/libre office has got a plugin ### resulting code is strange.
images
- gallery
- libapache-gallery-perl
- llgal
- mediagoblin #as far i know not even released yet: mediagoblin.org
blogs
- wordpress ### lots of dependencies, mysql, php, et al.
- blosxom ### nice on resources, but not much maintained anymor (?), hence:
- pyblosxom
- serendinity
- mahara ### not sure what exactly it does. does not seem de-centralised
music
- librefm ### not decentralised, or is it?
- vagalume ### player for librefm
- zomg ### cli-player for librefm
- ampache
- mpd
- xmms2 ### i could not figure out how
- forked-daapd ### not sure
video
- videobin.org #at least not youtube
content-managing
- drupal
- puppet ### → Centralized configuration management
searchengines
- yaci ### not packaged, very heavy on resources
- duckduckgo ### simple plugin for iceweasel
- lxquick ### simple plugin for iceweasel
- surfraw
- addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...
- www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/addons.html
- www.seeks-project.info/site
bookmarks
- scuttle
misc and notes
- ojs
- blazeblogger
- kind of a wiki is missing, moin-moin? ikiwiki? tiddlywiki?
- nicotine
general overview with lots of links
libreprojects.net
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For me, now and here, i have decided to use the following apps: Not sure bout the editor, vim seems fine to me , but a more easy one, for non-vimmers, would be good. Those few should keep me busy for a while. |
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The venerable nano as an editor for new users |
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nano might be good, but zim or gwrite speak a wee bit of html. that said: sure, nano is it. |
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I thought StatusNet/GNU Social was decentralized because it can be federated and connected to other self-hosted networks. Are you using some other definition of decentralized? I would include FreeNet in this list as well. |
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Freenet is there. I suppose we’ve been using the term not decentralised as in the widest used default incarnation. Then adding can be self hosted. Of course you are right it is the federated part that makes the difference, all free software can be self hosted. Oh and welcome back :) are you still running Blag? |
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omouse, i plaid a wee bit with freenet, but did not really get it. |
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foocorp.net |
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i started to test: |
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www.shareable.net/blog/10-projects-to-l... |
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hinezumi? |
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As fas as I can make out a portal for messaging see: “Imagine smartly multicast chat and conferencing, non-proprietary instant messaging, decentralized Social Networking and data sharing. And now imagine all of this rolled into one. PSYC is an open source protocol and technology, bringing the useful and amazing aspects of several technologies, some of which have been proprietary too long, together. " |
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wait, i know that and already used it! mhhh… riseup lets you use it? oh my, confusion, too much new apps. |
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This weekend, I found out that a long time ago, Nicotine+ forked into Museek (the daemon) and Museeq (the Qt GUI). AKA µseek | There’s also a SoulseekQT now, but there isn’t a Debian package yet. |
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handheldcar, what exactly you do with django ? |
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Right now, I think about installing it :P |
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ah, i see (i think …). |
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seems like mediagoblin added video-support |
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yacy is a big mess… |
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I tried owncloud, good. |
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we.riseup.net/mbxxii/netsukuku-isp-free... |
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