I said I'd never blog

I finally have the pleasure to deliver the first version of the DeforaOS Smartphone environment, as featured in the hackable:1 distribution.
First, the direct links:

• http://www.defora.org/download/snapshots/hackable1/Hackable1-Openmoko-Freerunner-user-2010.09a-rootfs.jffs2 (flash)
• http://www.defora.org/download/snapshots/hackable1/Hackable1-Openmoko-Freerunner-user-2010.09a.tar.gz (MicroSD)

If you like the artwork better than I do myself, you can also find a splash screen for u-boot there:

• http://www.defora.org/download/snapshots/hackable1/Hackable1-Openmoko-Freerunner-user-2010.07a-splash.gz

I have gathered some release notes and documentation within hackable:1's wiki, which you will find there:

• http://trac.hackable1.org/trac/wiki/AvailableVersions/dse1
• http://trac.hackable1.org/trac/wiki/DeforaOSSmartphone

Of course, I gathered some screenshots as well. They can be seen here:

• http://www.defora.org/os/project/download/3343/Phone

Before I conclude, I am the first one to know that this release is far from perfect. If you feel like you have anything to say about it, you will be more than welcome to let it be known. There are a number of ways to do that:

• contacting me personally as described on http://people.defora.org/~khorben/place/wiki/13/Contact
• using DeforaOS' development mailing-list, as on http://lists.defora.org/
• filing a bug in DeforaOS: http://www.defora.org/os/project/bug_new (create your account first at https://www.defora.org/os/user/register)

Now for the final words of this post, I have no reason to hide the fact that hackable:1 itself is probably a dead project already. I seem to be the last developer interested, which I find quite sad since I know no other project providing ready-to-flash Debian images for embedded platforms.
If you also have a need and desire for such a framework, I encourage you to let it be known. As for myself, I have in mind to improve and maintain such a way to generate ready-to-use images, probably as part of the DeforaOS project as well, unless somebody beats me to it.

Anyway, for more literature on this work, feel free to check earlier blog posts and news announcements on this blog or at http://www.defora.org/ .

Happy testing!