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

Watch these links:

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

/Archive 1

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Distributions

FSO team released Milestone IV 'Homework', see the OpenmokoFramework/Status Update 5. To accomodate the forthcoming release of other FSO API consumers like paroli or the SHR phone stack, three FSO-compliant images are build and released now:

  1. fso-console-image: minimal system with frameworkd, no user interface manager.
  2. fso-illume-image: everything in console-image plus X-Window, plus Enlightenment plus Illume window manager.
  3. fso-image: everything in illume-image plus Zhone. Can be used for phone calls. Like previous milestones. But Zhone is going to be faded out.

Debian: Joachim announced that the preferred installer script in now the one in the git. The old URL does redirect to it. Thanks mostly to Luca “Gismo” Capello’s great work, recent improvements include:

  1. The use of the general auto-login script “nodm” instead of zhone-session. Session configuration can now be done by modifying /root/.xsession.
  2. Device independent frameworkd and accompanying configuration packages. If apt-get upgrade breaks your FreeRunner, try to run apt-get install fso-config-gta02.
  3. openmoko-panel-plugin installed by default (running in trayer), to provide keyboard toggle and device control.
  4. The use of the packaged kernel instead of wget/tar. To get this going, run apt-get install linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02

SHR is getting closer to a first milestone release. According to BillK and others who kindly tested the latest version, the ergonomy feels generally better than other distros. But its early days yet, if you need a phone use 2008.9. Julien Cassignol invites the braves out here to install a preview SHR-testing (wiki help) and join the Internet Relay Chat on #openmoko-cdevel on FreeNode.

FDOM is considering wether to move to OpenEmbeded, as this would solve the source redistribution issue nicely.

On November 12th, http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/ were taken offline due to the discovery of an MP3 licensing issue. Openmoko collaborates with the Software Freedom Law Center in New York on this kind of issues.

Applications

Aapo compiled a newer version of Numptyphysics package on Debian, which can be played landscaped, without keyboard and it uses same datafiles than any other numptyphysics-port is at: http://www.opkg.org/package_3.html.

Signal Applications To Any (Audio) Network, or, ehm, SATAN, was born... This is a tracker to create simple music, or just jam on the train, bus or café.

Debian users rejoice: openmoko-panel-plugin reaches 0.5. Show and modify you the state of the hardware in you FreeRunner(i.e. gsm, gps ...) with any gtk based windowmanager (i.e. xfce). (thread, download).

Centerim, a terminal-based instant messager, ported on the freerunner (package, port page)

Hardware

And I thought that we were waiting on Sean to give mechanical legs to the Neo. I was so literally wrong !

Qi patches to support GTA01 and GTA03 were seen.

Werner announced a coming upgrade to the Calypso GSM chip firmware (meanwhile, the wiki is your friend). The goal is to fix ticket 666 and introduce a new command AT+CSIM. Than means 3G. There will be a self-contained update image that can be copied to a uSD card, then booted from there leading to a simple GUI to kick off the upgrade. Release date given: 'soon'.

System

Joerg and other OM hardware engineers are experimenting hardware fixes to the GSM-noise buzz issue. This may make it on the A7 hardware revision.

Openmoko's kernel branch and bootloader are gearing up to support more devices. Beyond GTA01 and GTA02, there is GTA03 and another non-Openmoko ARM-based freephone, the E-TEN glofiish M800.

The kernel guys are working to switch from the stable to the stable-tracking branch. A newer 2.6.28 kernel should improve resume/suspend. And staying closer to upstream allows to spot problems early and one at a time, while branching every X months implies a great effort to jump the gap.

  • NAND/ECC kernel issues are supposedly solved by this patch.
  • Warnings from WLAN driver about "warn_on_slowpath" are gone.
  • Page flipping support added to glamo (seem to be a framebuffer feature, necessary for Android).
  • Accelerometers are working but the driver is still under discussion.
  • Glamo GPIO is still not working on resume, leading to WSOD.
  • Graeme (announced that Xorg 7.4 now completely autodetects hardware on GTA02 with the Framebuffer driver). (Hacker culture factoid: did you know that as a software project X is older and about as large as the kernel with a penguin on it, but has an order of magnitude less contributors to it ?). Now would be a good time to send him interesting patches related to 2D/3D acceleration.

What is coming in the future:

Advance warning notice: expect the need for lots of userspace fixes, especially in /sys, when the kernel jumps from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28.

Patches available to fix ticket 1884 (read more optimization team updates).

In the base image:

  • Erin's commits to improve network registering time.
  • openmoko-mediaplayer2: remove pulseaudio, use alsa instead.
  • more X fonts
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Add news to this page, and from time to time we will issue a community update.

Watch these links:

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

/Archive 1

Distributions

FSO team released Milestone IV 'Homework', see the OpenmokoFramework/Status Update 5. To accomodate the forthcoming release of other FSO API consumers like paroli or the SHR phone stack, three FSO-compliant images are build and released now:

  1. fso-console-image: minimal system with frameworkd, no user interface manager.
  2. fso-illume-image: everything in console-image plus X-Window, plus Enlightenment plus Illume window manager.
  3. fso-image: everything in illume-image plus Zhone. Can be used for phone calls. Like previous milestones. But Zhone is going to be faded out.

Debian: Joachim announced that the preferred installer script in now the one in the git. The old URL does redirect to it. Thanks mostly to Luca “Gismo” Capello’s great work, recent improvements include:

  1. The use of the general auto-login script “nodm” instead of zhone-session. Session configuration can now be done by modifying /root/.xsession.
  2. Device independent frameworkd and accompanying configuration packages. If apt-get upgrade breaks your FreeRunner, try to run apt-get install fso-config-gta02.
  3. openmoko-panel-plugin installed by default (running in trayer), to provide keyboard toggle and device control.
  4. The use of the packaged kernel instead of wget/tar. To get this going, run apt-get install linux-image-2.6.24-openmoko-gta02

SHR is getting closer to a first milestone release. According to BillK and others who kindly tested the latest version, the ergonomy feels generally better than other distros. But its early days yet, if you need a phone use 2008.9. Julien Cassignol invites the braves out here to install a preview SHR-testing (wiki help) and join the Internet Relay Chat on #openmoko-cdevel on FreeNode.

FDOM is considering wether to move to OpenEmbeded, as this would solve the source redistribution issue nicely.

On November 12th, http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/ were taken offline due to the discovery of an MP3 licensing issue. Openmoko collaborates with the Software Freedom Law Center in New York on this kind of issues.

Applications

Aapo compiled a newer version of Numptyphysics package on Debian, which can be played landscaped, without keyboard and it uses same datafiles than any other numptyphysics-port is at: http://www.opkg.org/package_3.html.

Signal Applications To Any (Audio) Network, or, ehm, SATAN, was born... This is a tracker to create simple music, or just jam on the train, bus or café.

Debian users rejoice: openmoko-panel-plugin reaches 0.5. Show and modify you the state of the hardware in you FreeRunner(i.e. gsm, gps ...) with any gtk based windowmanager (i.e. xfce). (thread, download).

Centerim, a terminal-based instant messager, ported on the freerunner (package, port page)

Hardware

And I thought that we were waiting on Sean to give mechanical legs to the Neo. I was so literally wrong !

Qi patches to support GTA01 and GTA03 were seen.

Werner announced a coming upgrade to the Calypso GSM chip firmware (meanwhile, the wiki is your friend). The goal is to fix ticket 666 and introduce a new command AT+CSIM. Than means 3G. There will be a self-contained update image that can be copied to a uSD card, then booted from there leading to a simple GUI to kick off the upgrade. Release date given: 'soon'.

System

Joerg and other OM hardware engineers are experimenting hardware fixes to the GSM-noise buzz issue. This may make it on the A7 hardware revision.

Openmoko's kernel branch and bootloader are gearing up to support more devices. Beyond GTA01 and GTA02, there is GTA03 and another non-Openmoko ARM-based freephone, the E-TEN glofiish M800.

The kernel guys are working to switch from the stable to the stable-tracking branch. A newer 2.6.28 kernel should improve resume/suspend. And staying closer to upstream allows to spot problems early and one at a time, while branching every X months implies a great effort to jump the gap.

  • NAND/ECC kernel issues are supposedly solved by this patch.
  • Warnings from WLAN driver about "warn_on_slowpath" are gone.
  • Page flipping support added to glamo (seem to be a framebuffer feature, necessary for Android).
  • Accelerometers are working but the driver is still under discussion.
  • Glamo GPIO is still not working on resume, leading to WSOD.
  • Graeme (announced that Xorg 7.4 now completely autodetects hardware on GTA02 with the Framebuffer driver). (Hacker culture factoid: did you know that as a software project X is older and about as large as the kernel with a penguin on it, but has an order of magnitude less contributors to it ?). Now would be a good time to send him interesting patches related to 2D/3D acceleration.

What is coming in the future:

Advance warning notice: expect the need for lots of userspace fixes, especially in /sys, when the kernel jumps from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28.

Patches available to fix ticket 1884 (read more optimization team updates).

In the base image:

  • Erin's commits to improve network registering time.
  • openmoko-mediaplayer2: remove pulseaudio, use alsa instead.
  • more X fonts