IIAB/6.3

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Internet-in-a-Box (IIAB) 6.3 was released on July 13, 2017, after many of us met for a great March event (http://socallinuxexpo.org) in the Los Angeles area — and further developed some near-universal field requirements in Oaxaca, Mexico during late April, 2017.

Please see our IIAB 6.3 Release Notes!

As of early July 2017, IIAB 6.3 is in use in Ghana, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua, Malaysia and soon Lebanon.

GIVE IT A SPIN!

Give this a shot on a Raspberry Pi 3 especially: (very similar also works x86_64 OS's like [https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki/IIAB-Platforms Ubuntu 16.04.2, CentOS 7.3 and Debian 8.8)

  curl download.iiab.io/6.3/rpi/load.txt | sudo bash

Or if you want this to run significantly faster:

  curl download.iiab.io/6.3/rpi/load-lite.txt | sudo bash

An Ethernet (live Internet) cable installed into the back of your Raspberry Pi 3 is strongly recommend.

Write to bugs @ iiab.io if you find important bugs, and don't be shy posting to our public forums at http://iiab.io !

Fair Warning: the "from scratch" approach to installation above takes about 1.5 hours to complete on a recent install of Raspbian on RPi3 — depending on the speed of your microSD card — and how well-ventilate your RPi3 CPU. Let it rip and let us know!!

While You Wait: check out http://FAQ.IIAB.IO and feel free to read (or improve!) the docs @ https://github.com/iiab/iiab/wiki :)

HOW IT HAPPENED:

Whereas IIAB/XSCE 6.2 released April 19, 2017 was intended to bring XSCE 6.1 from Fedora/CentOS to Raspbian/Debian (and possibly later Ubuntu) — we are very excited to now build off Raspberry Pi's organic community energy around the globe. This means popular demand is increasingly now driving ease-of-use / ease-of-content-maintenance improvements of *many* kinds, even if yes Captive Portal did not make the cut this time!

To see how the design of IIAB 6.3 evolved over the prior 3 months in much more detail, please read our twice-weekly minutes here:

  http://minutes.iiab.io

e.g. a significant code refactoring occurred in early June 2017 harmonizing most/all internal commands and variable names to "iiab-whatever" after a decade — instead of "xsce-whatever" and "xs-whatever" — regardless whether uppercase of lowercase.

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IIAB 6.4 is expected next.

The latest stable release of IIAB should always be available at: https://github.com/xsce/xsce/releases/latest

The prior stable release (IIAB/XSCE 6.2 from April 19, 2017, which added a few critical fixes since then) remains available at: https://github.com/xsce/xsce/releases/latest

Note the name chance — as our new repos (software code) emerged in late May 2017 here: http://github.com/iiab

Return to this IIAB 6.3 summary site anytime later, with short link: http://wiki.iiab.io/6.3