<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">THANK YOU to the dozens of people who've tested & dramatically refined IIAB 7.0 pre-releases in recent months!<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Our main testing focus during the very final stretch here is slowness during the first 5 minutes after boot on <b>1GB RAM</b> Raspberry Pi 3's and 4's -- perhaps "BIG-sized" Internet-in-a-Box install have become just a <i>Little Bit Too Ginormous</i> possibly (: And might need a bit of pruning in coming days if the primary culprits can be confirmed, among these ~30 popular IIAB Apps/Services:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#What_services_.28IIAB_apps.29_are_suggested_during_installation.3F">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/IIAB/FAQ#What_services_.28IIAB_apps.29_are_suggested_during_installation.3F</a> <br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Then, a true IIAB 7.0 Release Candidate will be forthcoming extremely soon, as soon as volunteers (you if possible!!) help get this issue under control here:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><a href="http://download.iiab.io">http://download.iiab.io</a></div><div><a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/milestone/5">https://github.com/iiab/iiab/milestone/5</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 6:36 AM Adam Holt <<a href="mailto:holt@unleashkids.org">holt@unleashkids.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="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 3, 2019, 4:07 PM Samuel Klein <<a href="mailto:meta.sj@gmail.com" target="_blank">meta.sj@gmail.com</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">Congrats!! Wonderful to see this speedy progress. I tested out an earlier release @ DWeb Camp on an RPi4 a couple weeks ago; can't wait to try this preview. SJ</div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks to people like Jerry Vonau & George Hunt who've made an intensive QA effort happen in recent weeks, so that IIAB 7.0's Release Candidate will be available very shortly in coming days!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A self-hosted, all-in-one radio station platform called AzuraCast[*] is even now available as part of Internet-in-a-Box — to schedule podcasts, music, and even do live streaming of audio content:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-7.0-Release-Notes" target="_blank">https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-7.0-Release-Notes</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">[*] fyi AzuraCast requires Ubuntu 18.04 or Debian 10 for now. It might run on Raspberry Pi later this year!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><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 class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 10:35 PM Adam Holt <<a href="mailto:holt@unleashkids.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">holt@unleashkids.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">I don't even know where to begin to thank people for all the *amazing* improvements over the last 3 weeks since IIAB 7.0 Preview 1. Little did we know that 2 entirely new platforms would be released (Raspberry Pi 4 and Debian 10 Buster) in the over these past 2 weeks !<div><br></div><div>As such this is an <i>extremely powerful release</i> having successfully navigated to transition to both -- that is incredibly promising new hardware (the Raspberry Pi 4 stands to transform schools around the planet) and arguably the granddaddy of all Linux distributions (Debian 10 Buster is the basis for many other OS's).</div><div><br></div><div>IIAB 7.0 is officially now approaching the final home stretch:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-7.0-Release-Notes" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-7.0-Release-Notes</a></div><div><br></div><div>As such please everybody who can report any remaining glitches or showstopper issues affecting your country's schools/clinics/libraries/orphanages! (And any subtle/critical needs we might have overlooked, as you go about building your own DIY Internet-in-a-Box digital library?)</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you *again* to everyone who can submit (any & all) feedback that you deem appropriate, either in a private email, or right here in our tracker:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/iiab/iiab/milestone/5" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/iiab/iiab/milestone/5</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Background, just in case you're new to Internet-in-a-Box, our 1-line-installer to get you going is all you need, and it's here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://download.iiab.io" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://download.iiab.io</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>And almost 50 common questions and answers are right here, just in case :) <a href="http://FAQ.IIAB.IO" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://FAQ.IIAB.IO</a></i></div></div></div>
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