About
About
This site
Welcome to my site! I’m Rob van der Hoeven, a senior programmer from The Netherlands with too much experience. This site documents the building of my own FreedomBox. If you don’t know what a FreedomBox is please see About/The FreedomBox. I have two motives for building of my own FreedomBox: I want one, and i …
The FreedomBox
A FreedomBox is a small low-power computer that enables its users to host popular services like social networking (Facebook, Twitter), personal websites, web-mail, web access to personal data files etc. in their own home. This prevents the massive spying that takes place by the current centralized services, and gives users back the control of their …
Hardware
(Note: more hardware articles are here) My FreedomBox is a former QNAP TS 119 NAS that has been upgraded to Debian GNU/Linux (thank you Martin Michlmayr and Debian community!). The box is connected to the internet (120/10 Mbps) by a nice Netgear WNDR 3700 wireless router. The specifications of the QNAP TS 119 FreedomBox edition …