[Server-devel] Internet-in-a-Box 6.6 Preview 3 RELEASED!

Adam Holt holt at laptop.org
Fri Jul 20 18:40:07 EDT 2018 

IIAB 6.6 Preview 3 introduces our much friendlier new 1-line installer:

http://download.iiab.io/6.6

Preview 3 (code <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/releases>, changelog
<https://github.com/iiab/iiab/milestone/3?closed=1>) also introduces:

   - Elgg 2.3.8 <https://elgg.org/> offline social networking
   - *Explanations in context as IIAB is installing!*
   - Partial support for the upcoming Debian 10
   <https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/> "Buster" and "Sid"
   - Our Contributors Guide
   <https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-Contributors-Guide> (for
   software developers) is now updated -- please edit this document directly,
   those who can keep helping!
   - All documentation overhauled to reflect the new, more convenient
   location for your IIAB definition/core settings: /etc/iiab/local_vars.yml
   <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/local_vars.yml>
   - Your offline community can now instantly re-use its favorite/custom
   IIAB configurations (much like IIAB microSD card cloning, also coming
   soon!)  *Simply drop this file in place* (/etc/iiab/local_vars.yml) and
   then start your IIAB install on any fresh/new machine -- next time you run
   "curl download.iiab.io/6.6/install.txt | sudo bash" !


On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 6:06 AM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:

> 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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