Community Updates/2010-12-01

Debian is a universal operating system used on many embedded devices, servers and home computers. Using Debian on the FreeRunner gives access to the huge army of software packaged in the Debian repositories, already compiled for the Neo's ARM(v4) processor. Moreover, one can build one's own source files for programs without having to learn the OpenEmbedded way. For an existing Debian/Ubuntu user, choosing Debian for Neo FreeRunner makes phone a very familiar, trustworthy and flexible place to hack in.

General news:

• Second Openmoko specific Linux 2.6.34 kernel is available. Highlights:
  • EXT4 support, UbiFS support
  • GPS suspend handling patch from Gennady Kupava
  • Jitterless touch patch
  • CONFIG_HZ=100
  • Miscellaneous configuration wishes fulfilled

Codename: 'sid'
Homepage: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner
Image: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian

Micromoko is a Twitter primarly for SHR/OE. It is written in C using Elementary, it has a builtin Twitter library. It's not available on SHR yet, you need to compile it manually. It depends on libmokosuite: http://gitorious.org/mokosuite2/libmokosuite

Homepage: http://gitorious.org/mokosuite2/micromoko
Package: sources
Tested on: SHR

A podcast aggregator / player written in Python / Elementary.

• New release due to Elementary API changes in Icon, List and Toolbar widgets (python-elementary revision >= 53901)

Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/podboy/wiki/Overview
Package: [1]
Tested on: SHR

A classic Memory game

• New release due to Elementary API changes in Icon, List and Toolbar widgets (python-elementary revision >= 53901)

Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/minneo/
Package: [2]
Tested on: SHR

A Stopwatch and Timer

• New release due to Elementary API changes in Icon, List and Toolbar widgets (python-elementary revision >= 53901)

Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/chroneo/
Package: [3]
Tested on: SHR

A computer version of the well-known electronic game named Simon

• New release due to Elementary API changes in Icon, List and Toolbar widgets (python-elementary revision >= 53901)

Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/neomis/
Package: [4]
Tested on: SHR

NeoTool is a bash script for your desktop system to provide a friendly GUI frontend to some common management tasks, like for example flashing Openmoko smartphones. It is aimed at being very intuitive and easy to use, and flexible enough to make it useful in a wide variety of circumstances.

• Added (broken) ubifs support per chris' patch

Homepage: http://users.on.net/~antisol/neotool
Package: [5]
Tested on: openSUSE / CentOS / Fedora / Mandriva / RHEL