New release - 20080505

First of all, I'm sorry to keep you waiting for so long. During the weekend both my notebook and desktop died unexpectedly, so I had no computer. I get my desktop working somehow during the Monday but I had to fix a lot of things and now it's fully functional. That was my excuse for not keeping my promise about date of the next release. And now, the most important part - new release.

What's new?

This release has much more applications then the older one. Well, but it's missing Konqueror embedded. I had some problems to compile it, I'll try it again, but it's missing for now.

Sound

A lot of people was asking how to turn sound on. It's easy, you just adjust volume in mixer. To make it even easier, current release has by default volume set to max. So you don't have to ask how to turn it on. Other sound related news is that volume applet in Opie is "fixed", so you can adjust volume much easier.

New icons

A lot of applications has a new, much nicer icons. That's because of the hard work of z72ka. He prepared this icons for you and he helped me a lot with building release. So great thanks to him.

Bugs

This release is basically release from LinuxExpo with several bugs fixed and some little adjustments. There is still some bugs left as everywhere. One thing is missing Konqueror embedded as I already mentioned. Other already known bug is some mistake in russian localization. I'll try to take a look at both these errors and try to fix them, but it will take a lot of time and I'm quite busy with school right now...

Download

Maybe I should mention where to get it too. You can get it as always on my webpages. Last note, there should be some surprise for you, so pay attention during the first boot ;-)

LinuxExpo 2008 - results

LinuxExpo (see my previous post) ended last week, so I want to inform you about our participation. We presented there our Linux powered Palms. And a lot of people were interested. It was a small exhibition, but we spoke nearly all the time with some visitors. And we even installed Linux on several Palms of our visitors. Well, it was fun and I think that it was quite success. Maybe more interesting can be, that because of this I prepared new rootfs, but it's still testing. I know about several bugs which I want to repair before releasing it as a stable. But you can get something on the testing part of my webpages.

Last note - we even convinced Tux to try Palm with Linux ;-) Photo by root.cz

LinuxExpo 2008

Well, I didn't published any news for a long time, so I want to fix this. I'm not good in reading comments and replying to them. So I want to apologize to all of you. But here comes opportunity to meet some of the developers face to face. During the next week (15.-16.), there will be LinuxExpo exhibition in Prague. They say that it is the biggest OpenSource exhibition in central Europe. In the fact, it's really small exhibition. But if you happen to be in Prague, you can meet some of us there. We will be presenting some Palms with Linux of course ;-) And last note, if you register in advance, it's free ;-)

Dropped T5

As you maybe already noticed on Hacking & Development main site. Marex dropped Palm T|T5. He pushed sources into handhelds.org. That is probably good for T5 users. Once handhelds get propagated into vanilla it would be great. But I think, there is still some work left on T5.

When you read that T5 has been dropped, you probably worried about releases. So I just want to let you know, that I still consider Palm T|T5 as a part of Hacking & Development project and will be preparing releases for T5 in cooperation with snua. These releases will be based on Hacking & Development kernel, but I don't think that this actually matters.