News

There is an important piece of software that is (deliberately) missing from the precedent news item. About a month ago, it entered the list of projects [1] composing the DeforaOS project together, only being announced [2] on the developers' mailing-list [3]. It is, however, essential to bring the embedded desktop environment to a very specific range of devices: smartphones.

Indeed, it is called Phone [4], and has been under constant work for a month before reaching version 0.0.9 [5]. While its initial feature set is still limited to the essential parts (calling, being called and texting), the project already features a plug-in system, including:

• profile management
• hardware-specific support (eg for the Openmoko Freerunner [6])
• additional security features, with SMS encryption being already implemented and functional

Needless to say, the intention is to bring it to be fully-functional and usable. Early screenshots are available already [7], and more will be proposed on this website as soon as likely.

[1] http://www.defora.org/os/project/list
[2] http://lists.defora.org/devel/2010/04/msg00030.html
[3] http://lists.defora.org/
[4] http://www.defora.org/os/project/display/3343/Phone
[5] http://www.defora.org/os/download/download/3360/Phone-0.0.9.tar.gz
[6] http://www.openmoko.org/
[7] http://people.defora.org/~khorben/temp/DeforaOS/