[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.6 Preview 2 (released!)

Tue Jul 17 06:06:03 EDT 2018

On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 6:01 AM, Lionel Laské <lionel.laske at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Great news!
>
> Thanks to all for your support to Sugarizer.
> @Adam, just released officially v1.0.1 of Sugarizer Server here:
> https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer-server/releases/tag/v1.0.1
>

* Thanks to Lionel and a dozen others for your help over the past week!*

Consequently Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.6 Preview 2
<http://download.iiab.io/6.6/> is now released, with 1-line-installers that
work great on 3 mainline Linux OS's {Raspbian, Ubuntu 18.04 or Debian
9.5}.  Regardless whether you choose a "Server" edition or a headless
"Desktop" edition (version) of your OS:

   - Try out Sugarizer 1.0.1 at http://box:8089 (and later
   http://box/sugarizer) after you install Internet-in-a-Box.  TK in the
   Far East was a tremendous help persisting to weed out a couple vicious bugs.
   - Arky in Cambodia made incredible contributions including Kolibri
   0.10.0 as a possible world-changing successor to KA Lite in coming years
   (KA Lite is the famous learning tool for Khan Academy videos &
   self-quizzes).  Now you can try out the new Kolibri, using
   http://box:8009 with the usual account/password
   <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#What_are_the_default_passwords.3F>,
   after you install Internet-in-a-Box.  In future, http://box/kolibri
   should also work.
   - Draft IIAB 6.6 Release Notes
   <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.6-Release-Notes> are more
   comprehensive than last week, as prep for final release begins in coming
   days/weeks...

IMPLEMENTERS: we recommend you first run "sudo apt update; sudo apt -y
dist-upgrade; sudo reboot" on a clean OS...before installing IIAB 6.6
Preview 2 using it 1-line-installers here:

http://download.iiab.io/6.6

CONTRIBUTORS: an amazing 98 tickets have been closed as we approach the
finish line at https://github.com/iiab/iiab/milestone/3 ...where almost
anybody can help knock off a couple of the remaining tickets ...benefiting
kids & communities around the globe!

> Best regards from France.
>
>        Lionel.
>
>
> 2018-07-13 22:11 GMT+02:00 Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org>:
>
>> Don't worry it's not "666" on Friday the 13th -- the new/preview
>> Internet-in-a-Box 6.6 Preview largely works on all 3 OS's (Raspbian, Ubuntu
>> 18.04 and the imminent Debian 9.5
>> <https://lists.debian.org/debian-stable-announce/2018/07/msg00000.html>
>> arriving "tomorrow" 2018-07-14!)
>>
>> Try a fresh install by picking one of Internet-in-a-Box's "1-line
>> installers" here and letting it rip:
>>
>> http://download.iiab.io/6.6
>>
>> You can choose a MIN-sized, MEDIUM-sized or BIG-sized Internet-in-a-Box
>> (IIAB).  Whichever you install, first read the security and OS-updating
>> recommendations at the top of that .txt file, to get yourself safely onto
>> the latest kernel.  Raspberry Pi peops: use the new 2018-06-27 Raspbian
>> <https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/> (Lite or Desktop).  PC
>> / x86_64 peops: use either the server edition or the graphical/desktop
>> edition of any Linux distribution Very Similar to the 3 mentioned above!
>>
>> WHAT'S THE LATEST?
>>
>>    - Sugarizer 1.0.1 was added to IIAB 6.6/master Wednesday 2 days ago
>>    (for MEDIUM-sized and BIG-sized installs).  Two people have hit
>>    so-far-unexplained problems with "npm 5.6.0" unable to build the Node.js
>>    stuff for Sugarizer on RPi 3 and RPi 3 B+ ("cd /opt/iiab/sugarizer-server"
>>    then "npm install" fails and/or runs out of memory on certain RPi 3's but
>>    not others, despite seemingly identical conditions).  If Node experts can
>>    help out on Raspberry Pi, that'd be super awesome, please shout or write me
>>    privately!  *Lionel: will an official v1.0.1 of sugarizer-server
>>    <https://github.com/llaske/sugarizer-server/releases> be possible in coming
>>    days, so IIAB 6.6 is can become even more stable, instead of driving off of
>>    sugarizer-server's master branch?*  In any case: we can release IIAB
>>    6.6 Preview 2 later in the week if that proves necessary to refine
>>    Sugarizer on Raspbian.  (PR #888
>>    <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/pull/888#issuecomment-404370082>)
>>    - Regional Maps Packs are now extremely fast to download, thanks to
>>    compact vector-based tiles for OpenStreetMap.  Central America
>>    (including Haiti and a lot of South America)
>>    <https://openmaptiles.com/downloads/central-america/> is provided as
>>    a sample to get you started (#877
>>    <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/issues/877>).
>>    - dnsmasq and our new Captive Portal is not quite yet
>>    Ready-for-Main-Street (people who are unable to type in http://box)
>>    but getting much closer -- please support Anish Mangal and Jerry Vonau
>>    refining this (PR #870 <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/pulls/870>)
>>    based on the original hard work of Tim Moody and Josh Dennis (#608
>>    <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/issues/608>).
>>    - Special thanks to Arky R. in Cambodia and the Philippines who
>>    rejoined The Cause <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cause> in
>>    recent weeks (someone help fix that Wikipedia article to mention the
>>    Sneakernet-of-Alexandria that 5 Billion Minds are waiting for ;)  Arky is
>>    crafting our Kolibri 0.10 Ansible playbook (#841
>>    <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/issues/841>) and already contributed
>>    extremely valuable code benefiting all (#895
>>    <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/pull/895>).
>>    -
>> *Much More in our online DRAFT IIAB 6.6 Release Notes
>>    <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.6-Release-Notes> ! *
>>
>>
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