<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 12:16 PM Kenneth Wyrick <<a href="mailto:calteknet@gmail.com" target="_blank">calteknet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>This is so exciting. i will get started installing it with debian 9.6 on a toshiba notebook.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks Kenneth!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.7 Preview 2 was just released:</div><div><a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.7-Release-Notes" target="_blank">https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.7-Release-Notes</a><i> (more on release day later this month!)</i><br></div><div><br></div><div>Including *preliminary* support for installing IIAB on
<a href="http://wiki.ubermix.org/page/Ubermix_Changelog" target="_blank">Ubermix 4.1 educational distro/desktop</a> for those schools that have hard drives in every desktop/laptop, wanting it all (rich free content!) pre-installed on *every* student laptop/workstation.</div><div><br></div><div>This can be a lifesaver if you have donated laptops your team/NGO is installing into remote schools. Avni Khatri (President of Kids on Computers) will help us publish many more details in coming days, as we prepare for IIAB 6.7's final release later this month
("85+ % complete, 208 closed, 36 remaining" according to GitHub!)
</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>LINUX VOLUNTEER REQUEST: schools would *love* it if somebody could try installing IIAB 6.7/master onto a recent pre-release of Debian 10 "Buster" (<a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/issues/878" target="_blank">#878</a>).
Please do get in touch anybody who can just run our IIAB 1-line installer (<a href="http://d.iiab.io/6.7" target="_blank">http://d.iiab.io/6.7</a>) onto any Debian 10 from <a href="https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/" target="_blank">https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/</a> -- be it Debian 10's Alpha 4 from 2018-12-15 -- or any other Debian 10 or Debian "Sid" (bleeding edge) that you prefer!<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>thank you so much. i would love to see an OSSIE booth at scale2019<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 8:50 AM Adam Holt <<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 11:29 AM Adam Holt <<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org" target="_blank">holt@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>There's been huge progress here in recent weeks:<br></div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/milestone/4" target="_blank">https://github.com/iiab/iiab/milestone/4</a></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>"77% complete"</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks everyone who can help push forward any of these the above 55 open tickets !</div><div><br></div><div>(185 already closed !!)<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Not only are WordPress 5.0 and Nextcloud 15 officially now part of IIAB 6.7, but dramatic improvements include our experimental new Captive Portal (PR <a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/pull/1327" target="_blank">#1327</a>) and an overhauled DIY menuing system (PR
<a class="m_3726553621224990901gmail-m_-3259600731862997135m_9047963515012569465gmail-m_-8613102928224353663gmail-issue-link m_3726553621224990901gmail-m_-3259600731862997135m_9047963515012569465gmail-m_-8613102928224353663gmail-js-issue-link" href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab-admin-console/pull/95" target="_blank">iiab/iiab-admin-console#95</a>) !<br></div><div><br></div><div>IIAB 6.7's Release Notes are NOT yet finalized, but a draft is coming together here now that <a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/releases" target="_blank">IIAB 6.7 Preview 1</a> is official:<br></div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.7-Release-Notes" target="_blank">https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-6.7-Release-Notes</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>A very special thank you to implementers & testers on all continents -- who continue to validate our IIAB 6.7 pre-releases on Raspbian on RPi especially, but also on Ubuntu 18.04 and Debian 9.6 -- every one of which is installable right here:<br></div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://download.iiab.io/6.7" target="_blank">http://download.iiab.io/6.7</a></div><div><br></div><div>
Let's try to release IIAB 6.7 before the end of 2018, to keep to our
quarterly release target, <i>including newbie-friendly documentation
understandable to almost anybody.</i> I think we CAN do it, but it will
take a joint effort from all!
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