Debian 9 (Stretch) users may now install Ring 1.0 and OpenDHT from offical Debian backports repositories.
For instructions on enabling the backports repositories on your system, please refer to this page: - https://backports.debian.org/Instructions Once stretch-backports have been enabled, you may run the following commands: - apt-get update To install ring: - apt-get install ring To install the OpenDHT node: - ap-get install dhtnode OpenDHT and dhtnode =================== This release of the OpenDHT Debian package makes changes to the "dhtnode" binary package which is now shipped with a systemd service. This makes it easier than ever to contribute to Ring's distributed network. Installing the "dhtnode" package is all that is needed to host a fully operational node, which will automatically contribute to the OpenDHT network. Bootstrap servers ================= Bootstrap servers are used as the point of entry for Ring nodes to join the network. They are no different than any other node except for the fact that they are always online and available at a given address. The first time you launch Ring, it will connect to one of the preconfigured bootstrap nodes. For now, the only bootstrap node that is preconfigured with Ring is bootstrap.ring.cx. This service is maintained by Savoir-faire Linux. If you launched Ring for the first time and bootstrap.ring.cx was down, you would not be able to join the network. While the first step for contributing to Ring's network would be to run a dhtnode instance, members of the community could also host always-online and stable dhtnode instances that we would eventually consider to preconfigure in Ring as bootstrap nodes. This would help to further decentralize Ring and minimize the risks of network unavailability. If you are interested in hosting a bootstrap node, please contact me. Cheers, -- Alexandre Viau Savoir-faire Linux Free Software Consultant Co-Maintainer of GNU Ring
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