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FreedomBox is a self-hosting server aimed at protecting your privacy and data ownership.

Features

Implemented

Here is a list of user-facing features that have been implemented in FreedomBox. You can also check FreedomBox introduction and supported hardware related pages.

Use Cases for User Applications

FreedomBox makes it easy to:

• Chat with friends via your own chat servers

  • The Matrix server allows secure, decentralized communication via text, voice and video. Files or pictures can also be shared. Coturn helps, if your FreedomBox is behind a router (NAT).

  • An alternative standard is XMPP with similar features. You can host your own Ejabberd server and use the Web interface JSXC on your own FreedomBox as client.

  • Mumble is your choice for pure real-time voice conferences.

  • Remain connected to some external chat rooms while you're absent; for IRC with Quassel, or with I2P.

• Read e-mails and news

  • Check your email with the browser-based multilingual email client Roundcube.

  • Read RSS news with Tiny Tiny RSS.

• Share files:

  • Transfer large files via BitTorrent distributed file sharing with Deluge, Transmission, or with I2P.

  • Share files peer-to-peer with ?MLDonkey

  • Share content publicly or restricted to the users of listed allowed groups with Sharing

  • Privately share text snippets and files with Bepasty.

  • Locally with Samba.

  • Share locally multimedia content (photos, videos, music, ...) with MiniDLNA.

  • Organize your e-books into collections with Calibre.

• Keep your data synchronized to your FreedomBox:

  • Files: with Syncthing.

  • Calendar and contacts: with Radicale.

• Surf securely the internet

  • Filter incoming (e.g. ads) and outgoing web traffic with the proxy Privoxy.

  • Escape search engine filter bubbles using a metasearch engine like Searx.

  • Circumvent censorship using a socks5 proxy like Shadowsocks.

• Host your own website or blog:

  • Host a personal or community wiki with MediaWiki.

  • Publish a website or blog with Ikiwiki.

  • Host regular websites:
    • Each user has her own website.

    • There can be a system-wide website with User Websites.

• Host your own web office apps:

  • Collaboratively edit a text document with Infinoted.

  • Share your source code with GitWeb

• Host a multiplayer block sandbox with Minetest.

• Connect securely to your FreedomBox services from the internet in order to publish services in untrusted networks or to to access through untrusted networks as if you were locally there.

  • OpenVPN provides a virtual private network (VPN) service.

  • WireGuard is an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography.

• Learn how to use each application:
  • Offline Manual
  • Online resources
  • Community support
    • Forums
    • Mailing List
    • IRC channel

• Other features and solutions

Use Cases for the System Owner

FreedomBox makes it easy to:

• Invite friends to use your box:

  • Grant FreedomBox accounts and access privileges to users (See Users and Groups).

  • Use a single login for FreedomBox Interface, XMPP, Ikiwiki and SSH.

  • Share infrastructure resources:

    • Provide DNS service for your local network with bind.

    • Connect storage devices (See Storage).

    • Provide a secure linux (including python3, etc) console accesible through SSH.

• Connect your FreedomBox to the world:

  • Access your FreedomBox from the public Internet via Pagekite, Tor, or DNS.

  • Obtain a certificate for your domain from Let's Encrypt.

  • Manage network connections over Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or PPPoE (See Networks).

• Control your FreedomBox:

  • Customize it:

    • Configure system name and interface language (See Configure).

    • Configure time zone and network time service (See Date and Time).

  • Know what's happening in your box:

    • Run diagnostic tests (See Diagnostics).

    • View which services are allowed through the firewall (See Firewall).

    • Watch storage consumption in each device (See Storage).

    • from a web interface with Cockpit.

  • Solve and prevent troubles:

    • Upgrade software packages automatically (See Software Upgrades).

    • View disk information or expand a partition (See Disks).

    • Create and restore filesystem snapshots (See Snapshots).

    • Backup your data with Borg (See Backups).

    • Configure local access to FreedomBox (See Service Discovery).

• Learn how to administer your box:
  • Offline Manual
  • Online resources
  • Community support
    • Forums
    • Mailing List
    • IRC channel

Planned

These features are planned for upcoming releases.

• Run your own federated social networking server (diaspora*)

• Host your photos and videos (?MediaGoblin)

• Run your micro-blogging social network (GNU Social, Mastodon, Pleroma)

• Email server
• Scheduled backups

• Manage and share your bookmarks (Shaarli)

Applications available in each Release

• ¹ App was added to a FreedomBox release in backports.

• ² App can only be installed from backports.

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