Balloon Software

Supported OSes

Currently all users of Balloon are using it with GNU/Linux. We would welcome ports to other OSes (such as eCos, vXworks, WinCE), but right now you get Linux or Linux.

Source code

We are currently in the process of moving all our code into a centrally-organised subversion respository.

You can browse this online using viewcvs, or get direct svn read-only access at svn://balloonboard.org/,
e.g. svn checkout svn://balloonboard.org/balloon/trunk/ to check out the mainline code.

Currently the working bootldr is under balloon/branch, and everything else under trunk.

If you have a developer account then read write access is available over ssh at svn+ssh://balloonboard.org/home/balloon/svn/.

Binaries for the various boards and releases are available by http or using rsync from balloonboard.org::balloon

The current Balloon3 debian-based release is available here.
The easiest way to download just the binaries is by doing
rsync -av --compress balloonboard.org::balloon/balloon3/distro/test-v0.3/binaries .

BalloonSoftwareLoading is the place to start with info on how to fill you balloon with the latest code. And BalloonArmLinux has an overview of the distribution.

webmaster: Wookey