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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

With FreedomBox, you can:

• Share files:

  • Transfer large files (Deluge, Transmission, I2P)

  • Upload files to your website for other to consume publicly.

  • Privately share files (Bepasty)

  • Keep your files synchronized to your FreedomBox (Syncthing)

  • Locally (samba)
• Publish web content:

  • Publish a blog (Ikiwiki)

  • Host a personal or community wiki (MediaWiki)

  • Regular web:
    • Each user has her own website.
    • There can be a system-wide website.
• Publish multimedia content (photos, videos, music, ...):

  • MiniDLNA

• Sync your calendar and contacts (Radicale)

• Organize your e-books into collections (Calibre)

• Chat with friends:

  • 1 To 1 chat calls (FB intermediates establishing connection, then peers talk to each other): JSXC?, Matrix+Coturn?

  • Host chat rooms (traffic goes through FB):

    • Text: Ejabberd

    • Audio: Mumble

    • Video: ??
  • FB serves as persistent client (remains connected to some external room while you're absent).

    • Text: Quassel, I2P

• Share your internet connection with local devices.

  • Escape search engine filter bubbles using a metasearch engine (Searx)

  • Block ads while browsing the web (Privoxy)

• Connect securely to your FreedomBox services (OpenVPN) from the internet

  • in order to publish services in untrusted networks
  • in order to access through untrusted networks as if you were locally there.
• Your own web office apps:

  • Check your email (Roundcube)

  • Read news (Tiny Tiny RSS)

  • Host a multiplayer block sandbox (Minetest)

  • Collaboratively edit a text document (infinoted)

• Circumvent censorship using a socks5 proxy (Shadowsocks)

• 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

• Invite friends to use your box:

  • users and set access privileges (Users and Groups)

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

  • Share infrastructure resources:

    • Provide DNS service for your local network (bind)

    • Connect storage devices (Storage)

    • Provide linux accounts to users (SSH), including python3, ...etc
• Connect your box to the world:

  • Access your FreedomBox from the public Internet (Pagekite, Tor, Dynamic DNS)

  • Obtain a certificate for your domain (Let's Encrypt)

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

• Control your box:
  • Customize it:

    • Configure system name and interface language (Configure)

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

  • Know what's happening in your box:

    • Run diagnostic tests (Diagnostics)

    • Configure service discovery (Service Discovery)

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

    • Watch storage consuption in each device (Storage)

    • from a web interface (Cockpit)

  • Solve and prevent troubles:

    • Upgrade software packages automatically (Software Upgrades)

    • View disk information or expand a partition (Disks)

    • Create and restore filesystem snapshots (Snapshots)

    • Backup your data (Backups)

• 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

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