In cooperation between Intel and Nokia, a new open source telephony software initiative has been launched, called ofono.org. It has been discussed briefly in other blogs also, and generally it seems that there is a slight confusion over what ofono is. Is it a new mobile Linux distribution? Is it a middleware stack, perhaps something like what freesmartphone.org is producing? Perhaps something else?
At linux.exton.net, a remastered Swedish-language version of the Igelle PC/Desktop (v0.6.0) has been published, called “Linux För Alla” (LFA). It is available as an ISO download, together with a number of helpful tips on usage and installation. Click here for more information (all in Swedish). See a screenshot here.
One of the most frequently reported problems with Melas 0.12 has been experienced by Ubuntu users, wherein making a package fails with an obscure error message. This has been due to the fact that the “mls-make-pkg” command of Melas declares to use “/bin/sh” as it’s interpreter, but then it uses bash-isms inside. On recent Ubuntu and Debian systems, /bin/sh is not bash (but dash), and for this reason the mls-make-pkg has not worked on these systems. A small update release, 0.12.2, of Melas now fixes this, and a couple of other small issues. Please proceed to the download page for downloading.
Igelle Connector v0.3.0, the first release ever, was for a long time the only release ever. As the first release, it had a long line of issues, but I never found the time to give it the polish it so very much deserved. Finally that time was found, and a new release, v0.4.0, was made today.
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Due to popular demand :), today the Igelle Community Forums were finally opened and made available. The forum is available here, as well as conveniently through the top menu found on all Igelle sites. To post messages on the forum, one just needs to register a user account, after which you can already start posting comments on existing topics, or start new discussion topics. Please report back in case there are any growing pains in this setup. Otherwise, please register and join the Igelle community!
Since it was mentioned in the release highlights of Igelle v0.6.0 PC/Desktop that additional software can be easily added, some people may soon wonder how that actually works (and how “easy” it really is). In this post I’ll try to quickly highlight the essential procedures;
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As soon as the Igelle release announcement was posted on Distrowatch, the overwhelming traffic quickly confused the small server that was hosting the igelle.org site and the ISO downloads. As a result, the downloads were not working really, and the site was experiencing issues here and there for almost a couple of days. Apologies for any inconvenience to those who may have grown frustrated during this time. We added some horsepower to the site, and all should be well now. Please feel free to continue to Download Igelle.
A new version of Igelle for the PC (Intel x86 and compatible) desktop has been released today. Installers, along with the package archive, source code, details and further information about the release, have been made available at the Igelle PC/Desktop home page.
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Igelle v0.6.0 has been tagged and released today in source code form. This is a major upgrade to the Igelle code, and now reaches a milestone that is stable and functional enough to release, and can be used for future development as well as to build binary distributions for different target platforms. Therefore, this is not strictly a Linux distribution: this is the source code that will build a Linux distribution. Igelle v0.6.0 has been trialled and tested to build a graphical desktop OS for x86 compatible computers mainly; other targets may or may not require some tweaking upon build.
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Melas v0.12.1 is an incremental release with some minor feature enhancements over the previous 0.12.0 version. Specifically, the following adjustments were made:
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