Arm development images released

[mark_nl (Mark Verlinde)]

The Nethserver-7.6.1810 family grows rapidly with the birth of a little Sister.

We Proudly announce our development images for Nethserver-7.6.1810-armhfp.

This is major step forwards:

• The package repositories are now hosted on the regular Nethserver infra-structure
• The for arm available Nethserver modules / packages are exactly the same as on x86_64; If there where inevitable differences the solutions are merged into the main-codebase.

The for arm available modules are:

Base

• Backup
• Email server
• File server
• MariaDB (MySQL)
• POP3 connector
• Roundcube web mail
• Statistics
• Web server

Firewall

• Basic firewall
• Dedalo Hotspot
• Intrusion Prevention System
• IPsec tunnels
• OpenVPN
• POP3 proxy
• Reverse proxy
• SMTP proxy
• Web filter
• Web proxy

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We have kept track of the testing of the modules on this wiki page.

The image for the Raspberry PI can be downloaded from:
http://mirror1.nethserver.org/beta/

This image can be flashed with ecther - or - on linux:

xzcat Nethserver-7.6.1810-Devel-RaspberryPi-img.raw.xz |   sudo dd of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress && sudo sync

(where /dev/sdX is the path to your SD card)

Note
The images are never booted-up and start at first boot with a “signal-event system-init”, this can take over 5 minutes (largely depending on the speed of the SD card).

Login: root
Password: Nethesis,1234

The image for uboot is being build while writing this,
give me a little bit of time to run some basic testes and it will be available too.

Enjoy and Happy to hear form you!

[mark_nl (Mark Verlinde)]

And a teaser:

Aarch64 (arm 64bit) is on the test bench too…

[giacomo (Giacomo Sanchietti)]

Wow, you were quick: good job!

[rgmhtt (Robert Moskowitz)]

Is this based on the image Pablo has in test that works for the Odroid HC1?

If so, is there enough room for the bootloader + uboot or is the RPi fw partition there to remove?

Meanwhile, I will look at it for putting on the Cubietruck for the DC work…

[mark_nl (Mark Verlinde)]

@rgmhtt

s this based on the image Pablo has in test that works for the Odroid HC1?

No, is based on the released kernel 4.14.x, so it has to be modded for the HC1.

@rgmhtt

If so, is there enough room for the bootloader

Yes of cause all images have (1st partition starts @4096KB)

@rgmhtt

RPi fw partition there to remove

No RPI stuff on our uboot images

@rgmhtt

Meanwhile, I will look at it for putting on the Cubietruck for the DC work…

for the time being here a download link for Nethserver-7.6.1810-Devel-Uboot-img.raw.xz

[pagaille (Matthieu Gaillet)]

Incredible. It’s hard to believe such small hardware is able to handle so much modules. Great job !!

I’m already thinking where I could use this

Matthieu G. (en mode mobile)

[rgmhtt (Robert Moskowitz)]

@pagaille

Incredible. It’s hard to believe such small hardware is able to handle so much modules. Great job !!

I’m already thinking where I could use this

Matthieu G. (en mode mobile)

The CubieTruck is a very good unit. I have one running RedSleeve6 as my mail server with ALL the mail server cruft for 3 years now.

The goal is to move to Centos7, and I was having challenges with the state of epel last year this time. Now I will be using the much more capable Odroid-HC1 as the mailserver, and the CubieTruck as my Domain Controller.

[pagaille (Matthieu Gaillet)]

Actually when saying “ARM” I automatically think “Raspberry Pi”. I wonder what server load it could handle.

[rgmhtt (Robert Moskowitz)]

@pagaille

Actually when saying “ARM” I automatically think “Raspberry Pi”. I wonder what server load it could handle.

Sad, that. There are many better boards out there with better open support. I know some of the people behind the RPi and I understand their business model. That does not mean I agree with it…

The Pi3 is a pretty good unit. Depends on the sata interface. Odroid-HC1 with its 8 cores should outperform it for a mail server hands (or cores!) down.

[davidep (Davide Principi)]

Great job Mark! I can’t wait to check it out!

[LayLow (HF)]

@mark_nl

We Proudly announce our development images for Nethserver-7.6.1810-armhfp

Does the reference to ‘development images’ mean it is only for developers or also for the regular John Doe that want’s to buy a Pi3+ and install NS7 on it please?

TIA

[mark_nl (Mark Verlinde)]

@LayLow

Does the reference to ‘development images’ mean it is only for developers or also for the regular John Do that want’s to buy a Pi3+ and install NS7 on it please?

On no, the only extra skill you need is to able to flash (write) a SD-card.

I doubted if to call it alpha, did not do so because just 2 minor patches (for nethserver-mock and nethserver-base) are not released jet. For nethserver-base the change is merged (so the next release will contain the patch) for the time being it is applied at image creation.

I expected to be on “beta”, with a regular update path, end of the month / early Jan.

[mark_nl (Mark Verlinde)]

@pagaille

Incredible. It’s hard to believe such small hardware is able to handle so much modules. Great job !!

I’m already thinking where I could use this

Matthieu G. (en mode mobile)

Well to be quite frank, I would not recommend (under statement) to install all of them at once.
However with hardware costing about 50 €/$ it not hard to imagine to divide the load on different installs as @rgmhtt suggested…

[alefattorini (Alessio Fattorini)]

What about writing a blog post and sharing it with people in distrowatch?
I can do that within this week

[mark_nl (Mark Verlinde)]

@alefattorini

What about writing a blog post and sharing it with people in distrowatch?
I can do that within this week

Yes, that would be nice
(especially if I do not have to write it.)

[Amygos (Matteo Valentini)]

Good job @mark_nl!

I have start to test the hotspot module and i have found some problems.

Testing env:

• RaspberryPi 2
• 1 usb ethernet adapter

Just after the installation when i go to the Software center i obtain this error:

And I can fix it manualy with yum update:

[root@local ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: changelog, fastestmirror, nethserver_events
Determining fastest mirrors
 * base: mirror.init7.net
 * centos-kernel: mirror.init7.net
 * extras: mirror.init7.net
 * updates: mirror.init7.net
nethserver-base/7/armhfp/signature                                                                                             |  836 B  00:00:00     
Retrieving key from file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-NethServer-7
Importing GPG key 0x39BAF5C1:
 Userid     : "NethServer 7 (NethServer 7 Official Signing Key) <security@nethserver.org>"
 Fingerprint: 594c 3fd8 fae1 8ff5 32fe ae23 9cb2 8ea0 39ba f5c1
 Package    : nethserver-release-7-12.ns7.noarch (@nethserver-updates/$releasever)
 From       : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-NethServer-7
Is this ok [y/N]: yes
nethserver-base/7/armhfp/signature                                                                                             | 2.9 kB  00:00:20 !!! 
nethserver-updates/7/armhfp/signature                                                                                          |  836 B  00:00:00     
Retrieving key from file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-NethServer-7
Importing GPG key 0x39BAF5C1:
 Userid     : "NethServer 7 (NethServer 7 Official Signing Key) <security@nethserver.org>"
 Fingerprint: 594c 3fd8 fae1 8ff5 32fe ae23 9cb2 8ea0 39ba f5c1
 Package    : nethserver-release-7-12.ns7.noarch (@nethserver-updates/$releasever)
 From       : /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-NethServer-7
Is this ok [y/N]: yes
nethserver-updates/7/armhfp/signature                                                                                          | 4.1 kB  00:00:03 !!! 
updates                                                                                                                        | 2.9 kB  00:00:00     
(1/4): nethserver-updates/7/armhfp/group_gz                                                                                    |  15 kB  00:00:00     
(2/4): updates/7/armhfp/primary_db                                                                                             | 399 kB  00:00:00     
(3/4): nethserver-updates/7/armhfp/primary_db                                                                                  |  22 kB  00:00:00     
(4/4): nethserver-base/7/armhfp/primary_db                                                                                     | 193 kB  00:00:01     
(1/4): centos-kernel/7/armhfp/primary_db                                                                                       | 6.8 kB  00:00:00     
(2/4): extras/7/armhfp/primary_db                                                                                              | 131 kB  00:00:00     
(3/4): base/7/armhfp/primary_db                                                                                                | 4.1 MB  00:00:03     
(4/4): epel/primary_db                                                                                                         | 8.4 MB  00:00:13     
No packages marked for update

After installaton of “Dedalo Hotspot” from Software center when i try to register the unit i encounter the following error:

eth1 is the usb Ethernet adapter.
Line 36 of /etc/shorewall/rules:

# Avoid duplicated traffic
DROP    hotsp:eth1      net

Any hints @dev_team?

[giacomo (Giacomo Sanchietti)]

@Amygos

Just after the installation when i go to the Software center i obtain this error:

This should be already fixed by this commit: Fix basearch for arm 32bit (#150) · NethServer/nethserver-base@49527f2 · GitHub (already released).

@Amygos

After installaton of “Dedalo Hotspot” from Software center when i try to register the unit i encounter the following error:

I have no idea for now, I need to think a bit about it.

[rgmhtt (Robert Moskowitz)]

I rspamd available for armhfp?

If so, I will attempt a spin of the mailserver on a Cubietruck.