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 in March, 2017 in Los Angeles / Pasadena for http://socallinuxexpo.org — 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 mid-July 2017, IIAB 6.3 is in use in Ghana, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Nicaragua, Malaysia and soon Lebanon.

GIVE IT A SPIN!

IIAB 6.3 runs on many platforms (such as Ubuntu 16.04.2, CentOS 7.3 and Debian 8.8) but the easiest way try it out is using a $35 Raspberry Pi 3 computer running the Raspbian OS. This 1-liner is all you need to install IIAB 6.3 on Raspbian:

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

Or if you want this to run significantly faster, try this smaller selection of server apps:

  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 very 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-ventilated your RPi3 CPU (whose clock frequency is throttled above 80C; which you can always monitor with the "vcgencmd measure_temp"). Let it rip!!

While You Wait: check out http://FAQ.IIAB.IO and read the tech 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 more detail, please read our twice-weekly minutes here:

  http://minutes.iiab.io

Note that a significant code refactoring occurred in early June 2017 harmonizing most/all internal commands and variable names to "iiab-whatever" — after a decade of "xs-whatever" and "xsce-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/iiab/iiab/releases/latest

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

Note this across-the-board name change from XSCE to IIAB also means that our software code (multiple repos) now reside in a new home: http://github.com/iiab (since late May 2017; http://github.com/xsce is now deprecated)

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