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= News log =
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Add news to this page, and from time to time we will issue a community update.
 
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= Distributions =
 
= Distributions =
 
* Qi, the next bootloader, recently got resume support. [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/033109.html Testing] shows it is much faster than uboot.
 
* Openmoko's engineering team met for a 3 weeks workshop in Taipei, they decided to focus back on the basics, that is leave the Installer, Locations, Diversity and Settings applications alone for a while.
 
* [http://shr.bearstech.com/ Daily SHR image builds] are online, no release yet but available for testing.
 
* New FDOM promised this week ?.
 
* Rasterman's [http://download.enlightenment.org/misc/Illume/Freerunner/2008-10-12/ October 11th images] ([http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/browser/trunk/TMP/oe source]). This image is not a full distribution, but OMG illume is so beautiful.
 
 
 
= Applications =
 
= Applications =
* [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~taw27/openmoko/openmoocow/ OpenMooCow] 0.1 released: is a cowbox more fun than a barrel of monkeys ?
 
* http://AccelSense.org follows up on GSoC Gestures project
 
* [[Rotate]] worked on a lot.
 
* I read that [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/033103.html powertop] actually runs on the FreeRunner. For your information, this is an utility that allows to measure and therefore optimize power usage.
 
* [[FBReader]] an e-book reader programme now available for Debian and 2008.8
 
* [[Auxlaunch]] is a very simple, finger-friendly application launcher and window switcher for the Freerunner. It appears when the "AUX" button is pressed.
 
* Sander ported [[Sander|Pingus]] the free lemmings clone, for OE based distributions (it was already available on Debian).
 
* [[ Fennec]] ([[http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/2008/ipk/glibc/armv4t/base/ ipk here]]), [[http://www.dillo.org/ Dillo]] ([[http://misc.andi.de1.cc/dillo/dillo_2.0-r0_armv4t.ipk ipk]]), [http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ NetSurf], links2 A raft of light and fast web browsers.
 
 
 
= Hardware =
 
= Hardware =
* Guitar pick stylus [[Pouch]]
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= Wiki and community =
 
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= From the stars =
= Hot bugs and most discussed issues =
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* Wifi
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* Digital Audio Playing
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* Kernels currently has the APM power management interface is still compiled. This has been deprecated for years and must go away, preferably sooner than later. Hopefully ''apm -s'' should still work for suspend, or do we need something else ?
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* Powersaving patches landed in stable-2.6.26 on October 8th. Note to application developpers: the best way to [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/openmoko-kernel/2008-October/005542.html blank the screen] to conserve power is the fbdev-ioctl method. I think that ''xset s 5'' should do it. Thanks to the HaralDd and the Swisscom research project !
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* There is a workaround to the [http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1024 GSM keeps reregistering bug], a.k.a. [http://moko.mwester.net/brc.html bouncing Calypso issue]: prevent the model from entering deep sleep.
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* Unstable development of OM is moving back to OE.
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* [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/devel/2008-October/002688.html Test reports]
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* Fix [https://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/2038 Qtopia USSD] requests, so one can dial "*123" or "#4".
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= Wiki =
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= Community =
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* http://www.opkg.org is an application database (think Freshmeat, Tucows...).
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* The [http://planet.openmoko.org planet] got long, detailed informative posts, such as the [http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/discussion-13-openmoko-community-feelings/ wrap-up of the "Lost  community" thread]. When someone makes a request on the mailing list, it is a mark of good netizenship to summarize the answers on one's blog like this (or on the wiki).
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* There were discussions on what would be the job description of a community manager and decisions on lowering barriers to participation (i.e. access to write priviledges in code repositories) happened.
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= More =
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= Outside Openmoko =
 
= Outside Openmoko =
 
* Linux [http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/033087.html  2.6.27] released.
 
* Pulseaudio released [http://pulseaudio.org/milestone/0.9.13 version 0.9.13] with experimental support for Bluetooth devices.
 
 
= Archives =
 
  
 
= See also =
 
= See also =

Revision as of 16:53, 19 October 2008

Add news to this page, and from time to time we will issue a community update.

Contents

Distributions

Applications

Hardware

Wiki and community

From the stars

Outside Openmoko

See also

How are newsletters organized elsewhere: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/032628.html

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Add news to this page, and from time to time we will issue a community update.

Distributions

Applications

Hardware

Wiki and community

From the stars

Outside Openmoko

See also

How are newsletters organized elsewhere: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/032628.html

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