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Author: Merlijn Wajer
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To: Pavel Machek
CC: maemo-leste
Subject: Re: [maemo-leste] Maemo Leste new years update

Hi,

On 13/01/2023 00:11, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Please find our new years update here, detailing just how close we're
>> getting to Maemo Leste being a daily driver on various phones:
>>
>> https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-new-year-update-may-2022-january-2023.html
>
> Thanks a lot for the write-up.
>
> Would you have a hints how to try the Chimaera release? I'd really
> like to get phone calls / SMSes to work, and will be happy to do some
> testing (on droid 4).


There is this image that I built as a one-off:
https://maedevu.maemo.org/images/droid4/20221214-chimaera/

You ought to be able to dd it, then connect to wifi, apt update && apt
dist-upgrade (just to pull in updates), and then reboot.

Then phone calls will work out of the box, and mobile data should too.

There are still some things to solve, in particular, we need to support
(and not conflict with) elogind, otherwise a lot of software is not
installable. As far as I know this is the last thing to solve before we
have Chimaera ready.

Technically we could release our Chimaera image without support for
elogind sessions, but it might make the migration painful later on, so
we'd rather do it now so that users don't have to go through it.

> Does anyone plan to go to FOSDEM? I should be there, talking about
> phone cameras, and will be happy to meet.


I'm hoping to be there and happy to meet. I might bring some stickers. :)

Regards,
Merlijn