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The Freedom Toaster runs on an Ubuntu Linux system, so a working knowledge of Linux will be helpful, but is not an absolute necessity, you can pick up the basics of Linux in a good online tutorial. A working knowledge of Web Servers (particularly Apache) would also be helpful.

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The following software is required in order to customize Freedom Toaster.

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A plain text editor.

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The Freedom Toaster is setup to provide 'toastable' disk images of specific software and other digital information. If the use of the Freedom Toaster is to provide the community with the default disk images then the Freedom Toaster interface can remain as it is, or can be customized to a specific language or location (i.e. the user interface can be translated into Xhosa or Portuguese or the background image can show the University or store logo somewhere).

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Freedom Toaster - Fully Customized

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If the content of the Freedom Toaster (in regard to CD images) is to be added to or changed, then the HTML user interface might need to be changed to reflect these additions. Using the information contained in this manual you will be able change the user interface to reflect the information that you are offering on your Freedom Toaster. You will also be able to locate the places in the file system where XML files, images and new CD or DVD images need to be placed to be part of the interface.

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You will need a working knowledge of Perl scripts in order to fully customize the Freedom Toaster. The user interface interacts with the hardware of the machine through Perl CGI scripts. If you have a good background in programing you should be able to do an online Perl tutorial and teach yourself the necessary information to successfully customize the scripts (using the original scripts as examples if necessary). Most changes to the look and feel of the Freedom Toaster can be done without using Perl.

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Using the command line do:

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