/LibraryBox

Fork of PirateBox designed for educational and library use.

Primary LanguagePython

THIS IS A DEPRECATED VERSION OF THE PROJECT

All current development can be found at:

https://github.com/LibraryBox-Dev


This code is only here for historical reasons, do not use for current development.


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# LibraryBox v1.5.1
# based on mkPirateBox v0.3-2
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# Customization files that alter the UI of PirateBox to create a LibraryBox
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# LibraryBox customizations conceived and created by Jason Griffey <griffey@gmail.com>
# Released under GPLv2, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

FEATURES:
  - A download-only PirateBox, based on the project by NYU Professor David Darts.
  - Provides cheap and low-powered digital file distribution for libraries

TODO:
  - General improvement of UI/UX
  - Build custom ipk with customizations baked in
  - Build in auto-sync with Project Gutenberg
  - Anonymous download statistics for each file, with auto-ranking of download list based on popularity

REQUIREMENTS:
  - See https://github.com/cr/mkPirateBox/wiki/Requirements
    and https://github.com/cr/mkPirateBox/wiki/Router-support

INSTALL:
  - For PirateBox installation, see https://github.com/cr/mkPirateBox/wiki/Installation
  - For LibraryBox customization, see http://www.jasongriffey.net/librarybox

USAGE:
  - http://jasongriffey.net/librarybox/use.html
  

REFERENCES:
  - The LibraryBox Project
  	http://librarybox.us
  - The PirateBox project:
    http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox_DIY
  - OpenWRT - List of supported devices:
    http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start
  - OpenWRT documentation (look for tftp installation):
    http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/start
  - OpenWRT "Backfire" 10.04.1-r4 images:
    http://downloads.openwrt.org/backfire/10.03.1-rc4/