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

Features

1. 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.

1.1. 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.

  • Via e-mail:

    • With the server you'll (under construction) be able to bid your friends

      • real mailboxes and virtual addresses.
      • control over anti-spam and anti-virus protection.
      • safe communications among them (as no traffic leaves your server).

    • With the browser-based multilingual email client Roundcube they won't either need to install a client or use a service of questionable trust to check their email.

• 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.

  • Publish files in your own website.

  • Locally with Samba.

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

  • Organize your collections:

    • e-books with Calibre libraries.

    • photos with Zoph galleries.

• Publish web content or a blog:

  • Host a personal or community wiki with MediaWiki.

  • Publish a website or blog with WordPress or Ikiwiki.

  • Host regular websites:

    • Each user has her own website.

    • There can be a system-wide website as well.

• 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 web office apps:

  • Read RSS news with Tiny Tiny RSS.

  • 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 with OpenVPN or WireGuard in order to

  • publish services in untrusted networks or
  • to access through untrusted networks as if you were locally there.
• Learn how to use each application:
  • Offline Manual
  • Online resources
  • Community support
    • Forums
    • Mailing List
    • IRC channel

• Other features and solutions

1.2. 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

2. 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)

3. 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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