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End of the line for igloocommunity.org
Here’s a message from Philippe Garnier of ST-Ericsson: A small team of passionate ST-Ericsson people had a dream about the Snowball program. With the help and support of you and the rest of the community we all succeeded together to …
Android Ice Cream Sandwich 2013.01
Latest Android Ice Cream Sandwich is now available, bringing some bugfixes. This release also includes support for the display and touchscreen of Tablet Kit, a Snowball-based tablet reference device.
Sailfish OS and Snowball
Jolla announced their Sailfish OS at Slush. At the event Snowball was present in the Application SDK demonstration session, with a promise it will be a supported platform for Sailfish OS application development. Sailfish OS is based on Mer and …
Old APT package repository removed
If you started to get 404 errors from igloocommunity.org when updating your package lists, chances are that you were still using the older package repository for tools (or on the device if you haven’t upgraded it in the last year …
Android Jelly Bean 2012.09
Snowball moves to the Jelly Bean era of Android releases with the newly released 2012.09 image. Head on to the release page for downloads and read the release announcements from Igloo Community and Linaro.
2012.05 Releases
Even though folks at Linaro are Connecting currently, the monthly releases still happen. So check out the latest release notes for Android ICS and Ubuntu releases for Snowball and then proceed to flash to get rid of a handful of …
2012.04 releases
It’s that time of the month again, and there is excitement in the air! The 2012.04 Ubuntu release leaped to Precise Pangolin distribution, which among other things means the builds are now done for the armhf architecture. This should show …
Ubuntu 2012.03.1
After a struggle to find an elusive graphics bug, we are now finally able to announce the Ubuntu Desktop release for Snowball, versioned 2012.03.1. The good news is that we were able to squeeze in an additional audio fix in …
Android Ice Cream Sandwich 2012.03
The 2012.03 Android Ice Cream Sandwich release from Linaro and Igloo Community is now available! This release includes fixes for WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS as well as an upgrade to Linux kernel based on the recently released version 3.3.0. Some …
2012.02 releases are here!
Today the 2012.02 Linaro releases are out, and Snowball is of course one of the supported platforms. Among a list of other bug fixes, the Ubuntu Desktop release brings in kernel based on the latest stable release series, 3.2, and …