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News log

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

Distributions

  • Qi, the next bootloader, recently got resume support. 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.
  • Daily SHR image builds are online, no release yet but available for testing.
  • New FDOM promised this week ?.
  • Rasterman's October 11th images (source). This image is not a full distribution, but OMG illume is so beautiful.

Applications

  • 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 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

Hardware

  • Guitar pick stylus Pouch

Hot bugs and most discussed issues

  • Wifi
  • Digital Audio Playing
  • 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 ?
  • Powersaving patches landed in stable-2.6.26 on October 8th. Note to application developpers: the best way to 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 !
  • There is a workaround to the GSM keeps reregistering bug, a.k.a. bouncing Calypso issue: prevent the model from entering deep sleep.
  • Unstable development of OM is moving back to OE.
  • Test reports
  • Fix Qtopia USSD requests, so one can dial "*123" or "#4".

Wiki

Community

  • http://www.opkg.org is an application database (think Freshmeat, Tucows...).
  • The planet got long, detailed informative posts, such as the 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).
  • 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.

More

Outside Openmoko

  • Linux 2.6.27 released.
  • Pulseaudio released version 0.9.13 with experimental support for Bluetooth devices.

Archives

See also

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

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News log

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

Distributions

  • Qi, the next bootloader, recently got resume support. 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.
  • Daily SHR image builds are online, no release yet but available for testing.
  • New FDOM promised this week ?.
  • Rasterman's October 11th images (source). This image is not a full distribution, but OMG illume is so beautiful.

Applications

  • 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 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

Hardware

  • Guitar pick stylus Pouch

Hot bugs and most discussed issues

  • Wifi
  • Digital Audio Playing
  • 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 ?
  • Powersaving patches landed in stable-2.6.26 on October 8th. Note to application developpers: the best way to 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 !
  • There is a workaround to the GSM keeps reregistering bug, a.k.a. bouncing Calypso issue: prevent the model from entering deep sleep.
  • Unstable development of OM is moving back to OE.
  • Test reports
  • Fix Qtopia USSD requests, so one can dial "*123" or "#4".

Wiki

Community

  • http://www.opkg.org is an application database (think Freshmeat, Tucows...).
  • The planet got long, detailed informative posts, such as the 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).
  • 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.

More

Outside Openmoko

  • Linux 2.6.27 released.
  • Pulseaudio released version 0.9.13 with experimental support for Bluetooth devices.

Archives

See also

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

/Archive 1