Hi, I'm Qole. I like hacking around with the handheld Linux computers known as Maemo devices. I have a Nokia N800 and a loaner N900. My stuff also works on the N800's younger brother, the N810. All the stuff here is free, open source software.

I'm best known around maemo.org for my work on Easy Debian, a project that allows owners of Maemo devices to run powerful open source desktop applications like OpenOffice.org, The Gimp, and Firefox 3.5 with Java support. The project has a garage page with a Git repo, too. I have a general interest in running all kinds of alternative operating systems on Maemo devices.

I was elected to the maemo.org community council for two terms in 2009/2010, where I had the opportunity to participate in the launch of the N900 by writing the first official review of the device.

I have an experimental gallery at gallery.qole.org, which is really just a feed of the most recent pictures from my flickr photostream, using phpFlickr.

My blog can be found at either blog.qole.org or at blogspot.

Although nothing like a bird, this qole occasionally tweets, too.

Easy Debian has a wiki page and download pages with basic info for the N8x0 tablets and the N900.

For support questions, go to the talk.maemo.org thread for your device. There's one for the N8x0 tablets and another one for the N900.