Maemo Leste SystemV Hackjob #music
Maemo Leste SystemV Hackjob #music
Documenting my work for the day in a fun way.
The Project
This project takes Debian Bookworm as a foundation with Maemo Leste as inspiration. The repos were forked and modified to replace init with SystemD.
Technical Details
Foundation
- Base: Debian Bookworm
- Inspiration: Maemo Leste project
- Init System: SystemD (replacing the original init)
- VM SDK: https://github.com/ruapotato/vm-sdk
- Image Builder: https://github.com/ruapotato/image-builder
The Hack
It's a hack, it's a splice - not pretty but it's nice.
The process involved:
1. Forking the Maemo Leste repositories
2. Modifying packages to work with SystemD
3. Creating a dummy package for libedev as a workaround
4. Getting the Hildon desktop to launch
Current State
The Franken-system boots with TTY login. Running startx as root launches the Hildon desktop. A dummy package for libedev was created as a dirty hack. The UI may look rough, but at least it doesn't crash.
It's a mess but it works - Debian base with Hildon UI!
Resources
Song Credits
Song generated via Suno, documenting the hacking journey in musical form.