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The Open Embedded Distro

If you picture a band on stage, the apps would be some of the front men, like the singer or the guitar player. Mamona would be the drummer. Far from the spotlights, but still the very basis of the beat.

From a metaphor to the sum of its technical description, Mamona is a real Linux distribution for embedded devices. You can run it on your Nokia Internet Tablet (N800 or N810) or use it as a SDK in your PC running emulated over qemu.

It offers a completely open source alternative/experimental SDK package and flash image generation process for the Maemo Platform using only free and open source components. And before anyone asks, no, it is not a fork, but a distro made with OpenEmbedded help.

With Mamona, we created a playground for anyone, including ourselves, to experience new apps and upgrades with more flexibility, optimized results and a faster speed.

Current features

  • Glibc - 2.5
  • Gcc - 4.1.2
  • Full Python 2.5 support
  • Enlightenment Window Manager
  • USB Networking - As mainly input method.
  • Bluetooth support
  • Wireless - Open and WEP support only
  • Noemu Packages
  • ARM EABI Version 5 and QEMU (user mode emulation) 0.9.0 for Mamona SDK

 

Current version: 0.1 (yep, we just released it!)

Official site with FAQ and full documentation: http://dev.openbossa.org/trac/mamona/

 

You can either benefit from its flexibility advantages as a SDK, or if you are a platform developer, you can also use OpenEmbedded build system to develop Mamona itself. 

The Mamona Linux distribution can be run now on Nokia Internet Tablets (N800 or N810) and be used as a SDK in your PC running emulated over qemu.

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