Rearranging the Igelle project websites
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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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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Although the Igelle NEO images are still a little bit incomplete in terms of features, they have already given me much joy, and in case you’ll want to try them on your NEO, here’s a quick howto;
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Igelle is a Linux-based operating system distribution that is designed to run on various different devices, including desktop/laptop computers, cellular phones, mobile internet devices and other small or large computers.
Igelle v0.4.1 is a minor version release over v0.4.0 (due to only small differences in the code), however the release is a major one in that the first images for an ARM device are released here. New in this release is initial support for the FIC NEO1973 OpenMoko phone, together with a fully compilable array of packages for the armv4t architecture used by the device. No notable differences for other platforms in this release.
(Note that the NEO images in this release are still incomplete in features, and not really usable for any real task, however they do work well and look beautiful.)
As usual, proceed to the Igelle project site for downloads and installation instructions.
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.
Igelle is a Linux-based operating system distribution that is designed to run on various different devices, including desktop/laptop computers, cellular phones, mobile internet devices and other small or large computers.
Igelle v0.4.0 is an incremental release over the previous 0.3.0 and 0.3.1, with some notable differences and developments (mostly under the hood):
Igelle works wonderfully under the KVM virtualizer and can easily be trialled under KVM. Especially since Igelle is not yet quite complete, and you might hesitate to install as a complete replacement for your current OS (and rightfully so), the KVM virtual machine makes it easy to try it out without “causing any damage”. For this, you need to first be running any other Linux distribution (for Windows users, you might want to look at other Windows-based virtualization solutions). Here’s how:
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.
Igelle is a Linux-based operating system distribution that is designed to run on various different devices, including desktop/laptop computers, cellular phones, mobile internet devices and other small or large computers.
Igelle v0.3.1 is a minor incremental addition over the 0.3.0 release made earlier. No notable features have been added to the final builds, however, the build system has been enhanced with better, more flexible configuration, and (experimental) support for PowerPC builds has been added. As such, this release is a source-only release (no new binary images made available).
For downloads and more information, proceed to the Igelle project site.
Igelle is a Linux-based operating system distribution that is designed to run on various different devices, including desktop/laptop computers, cellular phones, mobile internet devices and other small or large computers.
Igelle v0.3.0 marks the first publicly available release of the operating system; as the version number suggests, this is an early development release, and not suitable for general end-users yet. Similarly, this announcement marks the opening of the igelle.net website.