The Ångström Distribution

The firefox 3.0.1 browser now works in angstrom, but it's much, much slower and memory hungry than epiphany-webkit.

For people wanting to try Ångström on their beagleboard, you can now download a
demo! It includes e17 as window manager, the abiword word processor, the gnumeric spreadsheet application, a NEON accelerated mplayer and the popular NEON accelerated omapfbplay which gives you fullscreen 720p decoding.

The http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard directory should contain all the files you need:

• uImage
• MLO
• u-boot.bin
• rootfs

See the beagle wiki on how to setup your SD card to use all this goodness.

At Lugradio live 2008 the TI booth had a demo running Ångström on the beagleboard with DSP and 3D acceleration.

Also check the linux outlaws podcast for more info on the beagleboard.

The following articles don't mention the Ångström Distribution specifically, but they are using it on their Gumstix boards:

Mini-subs exploring Sacramento River

Linux robot plays frenetic clarinet

The Texas Instruments booth at LinuxTag 2008 had a Beagleboard prototype running Angstrom! The picture above shows Abiword, Gnumeric and Xmms running inside the E17 windowmanager. It's a very desktop like look&feel from a 8 by 8 centimeter board :)

Just so there is no confusion for people switching from from OpenZaurus there are currently only three Zaurus machines that have active support within Ångström.

These machines are supported: c7x0, spitz (C3X00), poodle (5600).

These machines are not supported: tosa (6000), collie (5500), akita (1000).

We will continue to produce images for the unsupported machines but fixes to them are likely to be slow in being worked on without active developer working on them.

The c7x- family install instructions have been updated.