<p>Welcome to the Tahoe project, a secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant filesystem. All of the source code is available under a Free Software, Open Source licence.</p>
<p>This filesystem is encrypted and spread over multiple peers in such a way that it remains available even when some of the peers are unavailable, malfunctioning, or malicious.</p>
<p>See the web site for information, news, and discussion: <ahref="http://allmydata.org">http://allmydata.org</a></p>
<p>This is the default procedure to install from source. It has been verified to work on Windows, Cygwin, Mac, Linux, and Solaris. It's likely to work on other platforms. If you encounter problems following this procedure, or for more details such as platform-specific instructions, please see <ahref="install-details.html">install-details.html</a>.
<p>Run <cite>make</cite> to build Tahoe and some included libraries and install the <cite>tahoe</cite> executable into a subdirectory of the current directory named <cite>bin</cite>.</p>
<p>Run <cite>bin/tahoe --version</cite> to verify that the executable tool runs and prints out the right version number (the "allmydata" version number is the version number of the Tahoe package). This executable can configure and launch your node.</p>
<p>Now you have the Tahoe source code installed and are ready to use it to form a decentralized filesystem. See <ahref="running.html">running.html</a> for instructions.</p>