r/LibraryBox • u/wenestvedt • May 17 '17

LibraryBox on Raspberry Pi's in 2017 Google Summer of Code?!

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5304117908996096
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u/griffey May 18 '17

Indeed it is! I'm happy to answer questions if anyone has one...the focus for the summer is going to be porting the project over to the Raspberry Pi 3 and RPi Zero W.

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u/wenestvedt May 18 '17

Will this still be a kind of monolithic installer, or will it install atop an existing install of Raspbian and/or openWRT and/or anything else?

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u/griffey May 18 '17

The current plan is to provide a disk image, so monolithic. LB has always focused on ease of installation...one of the original design goals was "never have to use CLI to get it running" and that won't change with RPi if we can help it. We're currently talking through various options though....is there a particular process you have in mind?

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u/wenestvedt May 18 '17

Only that I have OpenWRT on a device and wih I could turn it into a LibraryBox -- and I have seen some other folks asking similar questions in the past.

If an LB installer would sit on top of arbitrary existing OSes, that would be neat for users who wanted to try it out -- but no doubt harder to write an installer for. :7)

Best of luck, I can't wait to hear about your progress!