[Kiwix-developer] [KIWIX] First Kiwix-plug installer (Win/MacOS/Linux) for RaspberryPi

[Emmanuel E. <ke...@ki...>]

Hi

The Kiwix team is proud to publish the first version of its Kiwix-plug
installer (also called Pibox installer). A tool with both command line
and graphical user interface to easily setup a Kiwix-plug on a RaspberryPi.

Using a PC on Windows/MacOS/Linux and having a good connection to
internet, you can with a few mouse clicks configure a SD card for a
RaspberryPi3. You then just have to wait (The Windows version is still
really slow due to the virtualisation) to get your offline library WIFI
hotspot with the content of your choice.

Give it a try, just download Kiwix-plug installer from here:
https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-plug_installer/v1.0/

Software code is open-source, please open tickets if you have any
bug/question/remark: https://framagit.org/ideascube/pibox-installer

Do you want to know more?

Kiwix plug is a portable server. With it, you can create a local network
and deliver content to users. Kiwix plug allows you to share files
easily: once they are connected to the Kiwix network, content is
available for anybody through their own Web browser.

Kiwix-plug has been created 5 years ago and integrated first
kiwix-serve, the HTTP daemon serving ZIM files and a custom based set of
system scripts and HTML pages. It has been distributed in hundreds of
schools and cultural centers, mostly in Africa but not only. This is,
for example, the solution on which ran the devices distributed within
the WikiFundi project. You can find a few more technical details here
http://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-plug.

Kiwix-plug installer v1.0 is not only a disrupting new way of creating
this kind of offline libraries, it is also a new solution motorising the
Kiwix-plug. Using Ideascube (https://framagit.org/ideascube/ideascube),
we have been able to provide a much nice user interface and fix many of
our long standing bugs.

Kiwix-plug installer v2.0 is already in development and its release is
planned in a few weeks. The features will be really similar, but the
overall speed/performance will be greatly improved.

We are also working on a cloud version of the Pibox-installer, allowing
to create the SD card images from a web page... but we will tell you
more about that in an other email :)

Regards
Emmanuel

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