-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi everyone,
A few years ago Allan (comradekingu) had an idea about selling small pre-configured Freenet systems. While I think we're still probably underresourced to support such an undertaking, I did have ideas about what one might look like. If you're not familiar with the Chromecast setup process: a Chromecast fresh out of packaging is to be connected to a display and a power source. It then becomes a WiFi access point, and Chromecast mobile apps connect to it and allow configuring the Chromecast and giving it the WiFi password. Then the AP turns off, the Chromecast connects to the normal WiFi, and is accessible over the network. An embedded Freenet system could do something similar: offer an AP which captive-portals Fred's first run setup. (Along with prompts for WiFi access, or an Ethernet connection. We'd want https://github.com/freenet/plugin-UPnP2 too.) To run Freenet it'd need robust storage and a fair amount of RAM; when I ran a Freenet node on a Raspberry Pi 2 (1 GiB RAM; MicroSD card rootfs and USB ports) with Freenet installed to a USB hard drive, the USB drive kept disconnecting (maybe due to flakiness under load?), causing filesystem corruption and kernel panics. When I moved the Freenet installation to the MicroSD card, not long after the filesystem started to, if memory serves, refuse to accept writes. So whatever this does use it'll need good storage one way or another. I had some flavor of https://nextthing.co/pages/chip in mind, but haven't tested running Freenet on such a system yet. Either way it couldn't handle something memory-heavy like Sone, and maybe not WoT either. (For reference my Freenet node with both of those is currently sitting at about 2 GiB resident.) Hopefully a base node would work. Thoughts? - - Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEy18byrtUVJwwR9o9Isk/X0qqYW4FAlmdSMEACgkQIsk/X0qq YW7vlw/+PepolRIgSLH8PYxaD7QQ9t6iNZiOuQ2oNZvYPl1d6XOsajesitWJalox OsstZe1OY6uLYoIAJApDdDZMlbGyyJSrsjirIcGkYIHlWvSUX9d+qIv/o81eo7+C EL6Xas4UtaWxVPmVrMjYw6CAuUxiZygzfrwWR11DwjU5Mcja+KXO+YwFLKt2S/UV 2P0UTncjpyzm/r9d9Foy8+YImel7xuPYemTJyBolYp9Vbj7mzLjdK475/EHSkHYD n7zVt6p2XKEBWzO1pYE2Te8L9ryFvDKWjablHLoX1PYQwYIfTApy+e5KON9/ih9v 7EL0P8d6hCCaep3wBaoSEB4uu3XzhxnzgxvI1AzcS7brQYforP52EMPezga12LJY RChMQ/Tprk5/uUfaACEWr+8iyIthnFxeDpvMSq6txBIW9+pg+0Tf5pGWvkdlG50o OxETKXAjlpEXyb8pvi/BECl+3dwQCKhwogtRzuQXjEPEIBMWJGoUaxkUkU3lctcx aSWU5fkeanauvzsQSrujx8kvo0KRzm8t1fF0W8fxx9lxe2mPXvAGHwDgAqwI4LEO 6y/OjDPFNREOMNJQZRL176GUDp8lNKVKbGat5hZwHOAP1o5gLjJ0J9tJ7BGEeGvy aqpbj8sX0vKaSUaUsNB7144dnLT+xQ5GcrUH0fmF002SUtgfnUA= =a+VR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
