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====='''Period 2011-05-01 to 2011-08-31'''===== | ====='''Period 2011-05-01 to 2011-08-31'''===== | ||
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− | Welcome to 2011-09-01 edition of the | + | Welcome to the 2011-09-01 edition of the Free The Phone / Openmoko Community Updates. We are a loosely bound group of people originating from the developers and users of the pioneering Neo1973 and Neo FreeRunner products from Openmoko Inc. Nowadays most efforts are around free software distributions for a range of mobile phones, including the original Neo products. There are also several spin-off companies inspired by the Openmoko Inc's work. |
== Hardware == | == Hardware == | ||
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* Debian is again installable with the install.sh script, thanks to a new kernel and some testing. See http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner for more details | * Debian is again installable with the install.sh script, thanks to a new kernel and some testing. See http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner for more details | ||
− | * FreeSmartphone.Org's FSO2 is making it into Debian finally, thanks to fabulous work by Rico Rommel and others. Most of it is already in: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fso-maint/2011-August/004321.html - as of this writing, also libfsosystem | + | * FreeSmartphone.Org's FSO2 is making it into Debian finally, thanks to fabulous work by Rico Rommel and others. Most of it is already in: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fso-maint/2011-August/004321.html - as of this writing, also libfsosystem, fso-usaged and fso-gsmd have gone in |
* FSO2 also means, like mentioned in the hardware section, a start of support for many new phones like ''Palm Pre'', ''Nokia N900'', ''Nexus One'' and others that have at least some support in FSO daemons | * FSO2 also means, like mentioned in the hardware section, a start of support for many new phones like ''Palm Pre'', ''Nokia N900'', ''Nexus One'' and others that have at least some support in FSO daemons | ||
* A new 2.6.34 kernel was released into the pkg-fso repository, required by all Neo FreeRunner users that have upgraded to Debian unstable's newest udev version. It includes the wire_up_sys_accept4.patch. | * A new 2.6.34 kernel was released into the pkg-fso repository, required by all Neo FreeRunner users that have upgraded to Debian unstable's newest udev version. It includes the wire_up_sys_accept4.patch. | ||
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− | + | * Latest SHR testing release for Neo FreeRunner is called 2011.1rc4 from 20110513, and not in the usual shr-testing location: http://build.shr-project.org/shr-testing2011.1/images/om-gta02/ | |
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− | + | * Latest stable QtMoko release is v35 from April: http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/ | |
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− | + | * Latest MeeGo CE release for Nokia N900 is the "Summer Release" 1.7.2011: http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900 | |
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==Applications== | ==Applications== | ||
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− | Name= | + | Name=Aurora 0.1| |
− | Description= | + | Description=Aurora is an UI for FSO2 middleware that tries to replace Zhone/Zhone2. It is currently primarily offered as <del>SHR</del>OpenEmbedded based images for Palm Pre series of phones| |
Screenshot=System_boot.png| | Screenshot=System_boot.png| | ||
− | Homepage=http://wiki. | + | Homepage=http://wiki.freesmartphone.org/index.php/Aurora| |
− | TestedOn= | + | TestedOn=| |
− | PackageName= | + | PackageName=aurora |
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− | Name= | + | Name=FoxtrotGPS 1.0.1| |
− | Description= | + | Description=FoxtrotGPS is a tangoGPS fork adding multiple improvements |
− | * | + | * Hungarian, Spanish and French translations completed |
− | * | + | * Bug fixes to tile downloading |
− | Screenshot= | + | * gpsd 2.96 support |
− | Homepage=http:// | + | * more bug fixes| |
− | TestedOn= | + | Screenshot=Foxtrotgps.png| |
− | PackageName=[http:// www. | + | Homepage=http://www.foxtrotgps.org/| |
+ | TestedOn=Debian| | ||
+ | PackageName=[http://www.foxtrotgps.org/releases/foxtrotgps-1.0.1.tar.gz foxtrotgps-1.0.1.tar.gz] | ||
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* Tiago Vaz blogged about his VoIP setup in Neo FreeRunner: http://tiagovaz.org/posts/VoIP_in_Neo_Freerunner_with_Qtmoko_and_Linphone/ | * Tiago Vaz blogged about his VoIP setup in Neo FreeRunner: http://tiagovaz.org/posts/VoIP_in_Neo_Freerunner_with_Qtmoko_and_Linphone/ | ||
+ | * Timo Jyrinki blogged about free software smartphone distributions overall, MeeGo and FSO middlewares: http://losca.blogspot.com/2011/08/meego-ce-and-freesmartphoneorg.html | ||
==Event News== | ==Event News== | ||
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+ | * '''2011-11-11-13''' [http://fscons.org/ FSCONS] - one track is "Development for Embedded Systems". Last year there was a presentation about Neo FreeRunner's history. | ||
* '''2011-12-02-04''' [http://ohsw.de/ Open Hard- and Software Workshop(german)] | Time and place of the third OHSW have been fixed. | * '''2011-12-02-04''' [http://ohsw.de/ Open Hard- and Software Workshop(german)] | Time and place of the third OHSW have been fixed. | ||
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[[Category:Community Update]] | [[Category:Community Update]] |
Latest revision as of 22:21, 14 November 2011
Contents |
[edit] Period 2011-05-01 to 2011-08-31
Welcome to the 2011-09-01 edition of the Free The Phone / Openmoko Community Updates. We are a loosely bound group of people originating from the developers and users of the pioneering Neo1973 and Neo FreeRunner products from Openmoko Inc. Nowadays most efforts are around free software distributions for a range of mobile phones, including the original Neo products. There are also several spin-off companies inspired by the Openmoko Inc's work.
[edit] Hardware
- Video of the Freerunner_Navigation_Board_v3 production posted @ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngyhKr3yTO8
- Navigation board available from eg. http://www.handheld-linux.com/ and http://www.pulster.de/
- GTA04 has now several early adopter boards with UMTS and OMAP3 hardware functional. Stay tuned for this motherboard update to original Neo phones.
- Latest GTA04 status update and a call for kernel drivers help: http://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/gta04-owner/2011-August/000230.html
- For those that haven't followed up FreeSmartphone.Org proceedings on other than Openmoko phones: Palm Pre has seen several updates to the FSO installer script (http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=utilities.git;a=tree;f=palmpre), and all in all there is some level of support to eight smartphones at the moment (http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=cornucopia.git;a=tree;f=fsogsmd/conf)
[edit] Distributions
Distributions lists releases and other significant updates in distributions that have some support for the Openmoko devices.
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Debian GNU/Linux
Debian is a universal operating system used on many embedded devices, servers and home computers. Using Debian on the FreeRunner gives access to the huge army of software packaged in the Debian repositories, already compiled for the Neo's ARM(v4) processor. Moreover, one can build one's own source files for programs without having to learn the OpenEmbedded way. For an existing Debian/Ubuntu user, choosing Debian for Neo FreeRunner makes phone a very familiar, trustworthy and flexible place to hack in.
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Other distributions:
- Latest SHR testing release for Neo FreeRunner is called 2011.1rc4 from 20110513, and not in the usual shr-testing location: http://build.shr-project.org/shr-testing2011.1/images/om-gta02/
- Latest stable QtMoko release is v35 from April: http://qtmoko.sourceforge.net/
- Latest MeeGo CE release for Nokia N900 is the "Summer Release" 1.7.2011: http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900
[edit] Applications
[edit] New Applications
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Aurora 0.1
Aurora is an UI for FSO2 middleware that tries to replace Zhone/Zhone2. It is currently primarily offered as
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[edit] Application Updates
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FoxtrotGPS 1.0.1
FoxtrotGPS is a tangoGPS fork adding multiple improvements
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[edit] General News
Most important and change making mails on the mailing lists, blogs etc.. Coolest hacks, screenshots, themes etc..
- Tiago Vaz blogged about his VoIP setup in Neo FreeRunner: http://tiagovaz.org/posts/VoIP_in_Neo_Freerunner_with_Qtmoko_and_Linphone/
- Timo Jyrinki blogged about free software smartphone distributions overall, MeeGo and FSO middlewares: http://losca.blogspot.com/2011/08/meego-ce-and-freesmartphoneorg.html
[edit] Event News
- 2011-11-11-13 FSCONS - one track is "Development for Embedded Systems". Last year there was a presentation about Neo FreeRunner's history.
- 2011-12-02-04 Open Hard- and Software Workshop(german) | Time and place of the third OHSW have been fixed.