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A new site, ossdeveloper.com, provides resources related to open source software development. This includes categorized content with links to tools, documentation, articles, howtos, tutorials and such, all related to development of open source software, developing on open source platforms, as well as generally doing software development using open source tools and technologies.

The site aims to be a collection of useful information for those who are starting out in (open source) software development, or wish to learn more and/or keep up-to-date. New content submissions are highly welcome, as well as any comments and suggestions for improvement.

Happy developing!

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Much of the web content related to the Igelle operating system and related projects (BarPanel, Melas) was moved around a little bit today. Here’s a summary of the changes and new URLs:
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The latest git trunk of the Igelle operating system now compiles and boots to GUI on the FIC NEO1973 OpenMoko phone. Arguably Igelle on Neo is still a work-in-progress, and not very functioning yet, but provides even today a wonderous proof of concept. It runs all the same software as the PC version, as the screenshots show, and is compiled from the same code tree using the same build procedures.

Installable binaries with installation instructions will be posted after some stabilization and feature richness has been achieved. In the meantime, please take a look at the screenshots.

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Unlike many “conventional” Linux distributions, Igelle is very easy to compile from scratch. In fact, this is one of the original design objectives of the OS, in order to facilitate portability as well. The build process is supposed to be almost intuitive, but in this post I’ll introduce the current procedure, and would hereby like to encourage people to try it and post feedback.

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Producing deb packages for a piece of software does not necessarily have to be as complicated as it sometimes seems to be. By traditional wisdom, making a deb package takes a fair amount of preparation and maintenance work, as described in (among others) the following howto’s:

• How to make deb packages
• Rolling your own Debian packages
• Make your own packages for Debian-based systems

And of course the infamous..

• Debian New Maintainers’ Guide

Based on these, it looks like creating a deb package is very difficult (at least that was my first impression).

However, if following the Debian project’s internal maintenance process is not of importance (as it probably would not be for those who are producing independent packages), creating the deb installers can be done quickly and with less pain using other tools, such as Melas.

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