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The Midori Browser is an attractive, lightweight web browser utilizing the WebKit backend. For me, the elegance of the Midori/WebKit combo is something impressive; when compiled and installed, the complete browser runs from two files; one shared library (webkit*.so) and one executable (midori). For me, this is truly refreshing after the “mess” that comes when building/installing Firefox.

The downside? Midori and WebKit are both non-stable, rapidly changing softwares and no binary packages are really available for either. Numerous instructions exist for how to compile these, though. Here’s one more to add to that list, but this time using Melas; and you actually get .deb packages that you can then remove and/or upgrade. These instructions, therefore, assume a .deb -based system. This was tested on Ubuntu 7.04, but shouldn’t (hopefully) be much different for any other recent Ubuntu.
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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.

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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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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):

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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:

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Melas is an uncomplicated build and packaging tool used to compile software and create installable package files. Melas can be used to reliably reproduce builds and perform dependency tracking. Cross-compilation is supported through integration with Sbox2.

Melas v0.10.0 is a feature and bugfix release over the previous v0.9.0 release. Changes and additions in this release include:

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BarPanel is a powerful desktop panel that enables you to have all you want just one-click-far. It is extensible through plugins and fully is themeable. Barpanel is a continuation of the work done in the Foopanel project.

BarPanel v0.3.1 is a quick follow-up release to v0.3.0, fixing the obvious issue of the panel not starting properly on Ubuntu 8.04; also, all plugins are now ported to the new internal plugin API, and they now work properly when configured as part of the panel.

For dowloads, proceed to the BarPanel project page.

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In case you might have liked BarPanel, and/or the way it looks and behaves, and would like to apply it as your default Panel to replace the default gnome-panel, it’s quite easy to do. I’ll try to outline here some of the things necessary to do this on a GNOME desktop (for KDE users, I have no idea; I’ll be happy to post if anyone would like to provide info on this);

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BarPanel is a powerful desktop panel that enables you to have all you want just one-click-far. It is extensible through plugins and fully is themeable. Barpanel is a continuation of the work done in the Foopanel project.

Barpanel v0.3.0 brings a number of enhancements that make the panel ever more usable as a drop-in replacement for your current desktop panel.

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