Community Updates/2009-08-19
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Period 2009-08-06 to 2009-08-19
Distributions
Qalee
Qalee is a phone environment developed in Qt4 above the fso stack. It works on the freerunner under any distribution that supports Qt4. It's not finished yet but you can test a preview version with the official Qalee distributon. This release includes no new features, but many fixes for things that didn’t work or were incomplete in 0.0.2. You can read full announcement, or take a look at some of changes:
WARNING : Qalee is in pre-alpha stage, a lot of thinks are not coded yet, other are broken, some may be changed. It's just a preview version of the current work!
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Applications
New Applications
VisualBoyAdvance 1.7.2
Port of VisualBoyAdvance SDL version
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Application Updates
PISI 0.4
PISI is synchronizing PIM data.
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QSuunto-Lite
QSuunto-Lite is an application to download your logged dives from your Suunto dive computer or view previously dowloaded ones. For those of you who do not own a DC or do not have cables/adapters yet, you can use the samples provided in divetools-ab-samples. I will also provide a fake download tool to simulate a download soon. Whats new?
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Intone 0.66
Intone is mplayer front end for audio files using elementary and sqlite. Manages playlists and albums for you. There is a lot of work going on Intone these days. This is a minor upgrade. Changes are:
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Evopedia 0.2.1
Evopedia is a Wikipedia reader for offline use. Evopedia 0.2.1 fixes a single bug: the "near articles" feature should work now, if it did not already. Furthermore, the Dutch Wikipedia dump is now ready to use. Features include:
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PodCat 0.2
PodCat is a podcast player (an mplayer frontend written in Python) with the following features:
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Community
- Vasco Névoa has updated Jokes wiki page with some new jokes, which came out while discussing one of FreeRunner design tickets.
- Marcel created an initial version of the Hall of Fame wiki page. Its task is to inform people about software, which is stable and polished in opinion of "Openmoko discussion list community".
- Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller of Golden Delicious Computers GmbH&Co recently announced, that they and their partner TRISOFT now have the GTA02A7 models on regular sale and can ship from stock. You can read full announcement on mailing list archive
- There are some additional photos from The Debconf9 buzz fix party on tuxbrain and picasaweb
- Thomas White is implementing direct rendering for the Neo FreeRunner, with its SMedia Glamo3362 graphics accelerator. With his great work we will have a well-defined system to share access to the chip, enabling cooperation between the X server and programs using features such as hardware MPEG decoding or 3D graphics. Recently he didn't post much on his blog, but thats just because he spent most of his time and effort for coding. If you are interested in some details about this project, it is here. There are also available videos of Thomas White's work in ogv format, or on youtube
Event News
- 2009-08-08 Tom Yates gave a talk on the openmoko at UKUUG's Summer Conference. You can see the slides and notes for the talk if you want (they're in OpenDocument format).