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The 12th community updates will released on February 20, 2009. Before releasing , I will put the draft on TALK page. Feel free to update the new for community.


Distributions

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  • Fyp is a Debian for Freerunner based distribution which uses LXDE and Zhone on top. It is a FreeYourPhone.de community project. Now the first beta image is released. You can download Fyp distribution here, then uses NeoTool for installation. After you finished the installation and boot up, you can press AUX (short press) shows the keyboard, and use Power button to pops up the shutdown/suspend menu, then select the options.
  • Mickey announced Qi now it's "officially" supported by FSO.
  • FSO meets paroli-for a fully functional paroli, FSO team came up with fso milestone 5.5. fso ms 5.5 will contains everything needed by paroli.

Application

New Applications

  • Momtools-(momtools = MyOpenMoko tools) the idea of this tool is creating an easy-to-use application, allowing the freerunner (gta-02) to connect to wifi and gprs, and add some useful applications such as a slim media-player and a little accelerometers-game. This project now is on progress. You can check this on it's wiki page.
  • Enscribi-a new handwriting recognition input method, now it only support writing Japanese and Chinese characters. You can download ipk files and install it on FSO. Then goto "setup" --> "keyboard" --> "enscribi", then you get a Chinese input method. For more inforamtion , you can check : http://olofsj.github.com/enscribi/ .
  • OpenMiaoCat, like OpenMooCow, makes your phone became a cat! Simply stroke gently the lovely cat to make it purr!

Application updates

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  • Qwo-Version 0.4 was released on Feb, 7. The changes include :window can be resized dynamically, added Paste, Alt key, page up, down, home, end plus others ...etc. You can download the new version here
  • Yaouh!-Version 0.4 is out. This release includes bugfix and add support for multiple wget download , probably faster.
  • Guitartune- Version 0.30 released on 16 Feb. Changes include a new GUI, wider range (from A0 to C8) and threaded architecture.

Trick and Tips

  • MokoGeocaching Installing-After you install MokoGeocaching , if the app won't even start, you may need to install these dependencies manually (Om2008.12):
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opkg install python-netclient python-mime python-netclient


  • How to search bugs real quick , instead of using trac.openmoko.org ? You can use the Unofficial search to bugs.openmoko.org. You can type the keyword or bug number on text box , then press "search", the result will list below the text box.

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