Community Updates/2010-06-01

GameRunner is an Openmoko Linux distribution. It aims at converting the Freerunner open mobile phone in a Linux-based handheld game console. It is simple, and contains cool and suitable open source games for Linux mobile devices. New stuff :

• new simple app fileselector (finger friendly), useful for Super Nintendo Emulator and Mplayer
• added Snes9x (Super Nintendo Emulator), Mplayer, GNURobbo, fatfingershell, and Block Rage game
• pressing power button any time quits the current game (resets X and GUI)
• added help screen for every game using GameRunner game control

• fixes in Gamerunner game control : works always and better. Now red aux

Codename: 0.2
Homepage: http://gamerunner.sourceforge.net
Image: http://gamerunner.sourceforge.net/download_installation.html

QtMoko is a distribution based on Qtopia (or QtExtended). List of changes since previous stable version (v22):

• Polish translations (Tomasz Czajkowski)
• Package manager displays package version (Anton Olkhovik)
• Disabled logging by default to save flash
• In Settings->Logging can be started/stopped/enabled/disabled
• GUI for modem settings (deep sleep and multiplexing) in NeoControl
• GUI for call volume in NeoControl
• Fixed gsm alsa state to use recommended "Mic 2" instead of "Right PGA"
• Wifi maxperf can be turned on/off in devtools
• Automatically set wifi to maxperf when connected (Alina Friedrichsen)
• Automatically restart hcid if it crashed (Alex Samorukov)
• Removed setting sd_max_clk because it was causing problems (Alex Samorukov)
• Smaller icon for QNetWalk game - old icon was 1.5MB big !@#$%
• Fixed not found page in Arora (Alex Samorukov)
• Tab bar size and zooming as upstream Arora does (Alex Samorukov)
• Enabled web cache in Arora (Alex Samorukov)
• Switching between USB mass storage and USB ethernet via devtools
• Disabled dimming/suspend by default

Codename: v24
Homepage: http://www.qtmoko.org
Image: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtmoko/files/

SHR is a community driven GNU/Linux distribution for smartphones based on OpenEmbedded using E17 (illume) as window manager and own gui apps on top of FSO. Most important changes from last month are:

• ogsmd written in python was replaced with fsogsmd written in vala, which is much faster and uses less memory
• All SHR apps were adjusted to slightly changed api of gsm daemon and now everything works out-of-the box with fsogsmd
• SMSs are no longer temporary saved to SIM
• Deep-sleep and echo cancellation for calypso is configureable in fsogsmd config.
• HAL is no longer installed by default
• Toolchain is continuously upgraded (now we're using eglibc-2.12, gcc-4.4.4 and we're testing gcc-4.5 which should generate faster code for our armv4t).
• Changelog for all libs/apps included in image
• Changelog for SHR apps

• We are testing newer 2.6.32 and 2.6.34 kernels available here, please read readme there and test it too.

Codename: unstable
Homepage: http://www.shr-project.org
Image: http://build.shr-project.org/shr-unstable/images/

Minneo is a classic Memory game. It's a game of memory and concentration. It's written in Python / Elementary.

Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/minneo/
Package: Minneo
Tested on: SHR

ModRana is a GPS navigation application. It supports GPX tracks, online routing and POI search, route profile, transparent map overlay, batch tile download and has a configurable GUI. ModRana is written in Python, using PyGTK and Cairo.

Homepage: http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/trac/gps_navigace/wiki/WikiStartEN
Package: modrana
Tested on: SHR, QtMoko