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Project Byzantium has released a version for the RPi

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Project Byzantium has released a version of thier software package for the RPi.  Its not an ISO but they have a GIT repository and a description of how to impliment it.

 

Project Byzantium is a thumbdrive based Linux distribution that will turn most PC's into WiFi mesh network node along with a few bells and whistles.  The RPi version isn't a full distibution yet, but rather is a series of add-ons for Raspberian and instrustion for Arch Linux as well.  The RPi version doesn't do everything that PC version does but it has the core features.  Below are the links if anyone is interested:

 

Project Home Page:

http://project-byzantium.org/

 

GIT Repository:

https://github.com/Byzantium/ByzPi

 

Blog/News Article

http://project-byzantium.org/isc-grant-milestone-number-one-achieved/

 

FYI: they also have a version coming out soon for Mac as well.

  • Project Byzantium looks very interesting indeed, and coincidentally seems to share some of the goals of pump.io whose developer Evan Prodromou has just described it to us here.  Byzantium runs over a mesh network, but pump.io could join in the mesh fun too.

     

    As I wrote on Evan's thread, I'd be interested in implementing such communications on BBB rather than Pi because it's in the same price niche but better at networking.  Since Byzantium is open source on Github and portable to ARM, there probably aren't any barriers to that at all.

     

    I'm looking forward to checking it out! image

     

    PS. I read about your porting to the Debian packaging and startup system.  This is perfect for BBB too, since most BBB users reflash to Debian (or Ubuntu which is also compatible) once they tire of Angstrom's limitations.