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'''Just some notes from playing with my Freerunner'''
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== Just some notes from playing with my Freerunner ==
  
 
What am I trying to do?  I want to run a full Linux distro on my Freerunner, with Debian the obvious choice, AND have it work as a usable telephone at the same time.
 
What am I trying to do?  I want to run a full Linux distro on my Freerunner, with Debian the obvious choice, AND have it work as a usable telephone at the same time.

Revision as of 05:21, 3 September 2009

Just some notes from playing with my Freerunner

What am I trying to do? I want to run a full Linux distro on my Freerunner, with Debian the obvious choice, AND have it work as a usable telephone at the same time.

Choice of Desktop and Window Manager

I started with XFCE/matchbox, which worked pretty nicely but could be painfully slow. I just figured that came with the terrain of trying to run a full windows manager on such a small box.

Yesterday I changed to LXDE/openbox - what a difference! Much smarter, more responsive, it's almost a new machine. Never going back.

Paroli under Debian

Lately I've been playing with Paroli. I had it almost working for a while, but now it seems to be broken again. I'll write down how I installed it another time.

But just for reference, the main reason why I had trouble making it work appears to be incompatibility with the version of framework that is currently packaged with Debian. right now I think I'm going to make do with what I have.

But the things that didn't work include:

- the BTConnected thing in frameworkd.conf - playing a .wav file on SMS reception - solved simply and sensibly be encoding it as an .ogg - the SMS Vibration function not yet implemented.

That's all for now :)

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Just some notes from playing with my Freerunner

What am I trying to do? I want to run a full Linux distro on my Freerunner, with Debian the obvious choice, AND have it work as a usable telephone at the same time.

Choice of Desktop and Window Manager

I started with XFCE/matchbox, which worked pretty nicely but could be painfully slow. I just figured that came with the terrain of trying to run a full windows manager on such a small box.

Yesterday I changed to LXDE/openbox - what a difference! Much smarter, more responsive, it's almost a new machine. Never going back.

Paroli under Debian

Lately I've been playing with Paroli. I had it almost working for a while, but now it seems to be broken again. I'll write down how I installed it another time.

But just for reference, the main reason why I had trouble making it work appears to be incompatibility with the version of framework that is currently packaged with Debian. right now I think I'm going to make do with what I have.

But the things that didn't work include:

- the BTConnected thing in frameworkd.conf - playing a .wav file on SMS reception - solved simply and sensibly be encoding it as an .ogg - the SMS Vibration function not yet implemented.

That's all for now :)