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* [[FBReader]] an e-book reader programme now available for Debian and 2008.8 | * [[FBReader]] an e-book reader programme now available for Debian and 2008.8 | ||
* [[Auxlaunch]] is a very simple, finger-friendly application launcher and window switcher for the Freerunner. It appears when the "AUX" button is pressed. | * [[Auxlaunch]] is a very simple, finger-friendly application launcher and window switcher for the Freerunner. It appears when the "AUX" button is pressed. | ||
+ | * Sander ported [[Sander|Pingus]] the free lemmings clone, for OE based distributions (it was already available on Debian). | ||
+ | * [[ Fennec]] ([[http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/2008/ipk/glibc/armv4t/base/ ipk here]]), [[http://www.dillo.org/ Dillo]] ([[http://misc.andi.de1.cc/dillo/dillo_2.0-r0_armv4t.ipk ipk]]), [http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ NetSurf], links2 A raft of light and fast web browsers. | ||
= Hardware = | = Hardware = |
Revision as of 17:02, 19 October 2008
Contents |
News log
Add the news in this page, and from time to time we will issue a community update.
Distributions
- Qi, the next bootloader, recently got resume support. Testing shows it is much faster than uboot.
- Openmoko's engineering team met for a 3 weeks workshop in Taipei, they decided to focus back on the basics, that is leave the Installer, Locations, Diversity and Settings applications alone for a while.
- Daily SHR image builds are online, no release yet but available for testing.
- New FDOM promised this week ?.
- Rasterman's October 11th images (source). This image is not a full distribution, but OMG illume is so beautiful.
Applications
- OpenMooCow 0.1 released: is a cowbox more fun than a barrel of monkeys ?
- http://AccelSense.org follows up on GSoC Gestures project
- Rotate worked on a lot.
- I read that powertop actually runs on the FreeRunner. For your information, this is an utility that allows to measure and therefore optimize power usage.
- FBReader an e-book reader programme now available for Debian and 2008.8
- Auxlaunch is a very simple, finger-friendly application launcher and window switcher for the Freerunner. It appears when the "AUX" button is pressed.
- Sander ported Pingus the free lemmings clone, for OE based distributions (it was already available on Debian).
- Fennec ([ipk here]), [Dillo] ([ipk]), NetSurf, links2 A raft of light and fast web browsers.
Hardware
- Guitar pick stylus Pouch
Hot bugs and most discussed issues
- Wifi
- Digital Audio Playing
- Kernels currently has the APM power management interface is still compiled. This has been deprecated for years and must go away, preferably sooner than later. Hopefully apm -s should still work for suspend, or do we need something else ?
- Powersaving patches landed in stable-2.6.26 on October 8th. Note to application developpers: the best way to blank the screen to conserve power is the fbdev-ioctl method. I think that xset s 5 should do it. Thanks to the HaralDd and the Swisscom research project !
- There is a workaround to the GSM keeps reregistering bug, a.k.a. bouncing Calypso issue: prevent the model from entering deep sleep.
- Unstable development of OM is moving back to OE.
- Test reports
- Fix Qtopia USSD requests, so one can dial "*123" or "#4".
Wiki
Community
- http://www.opkg.org is an application database (think Freshmeat, Tucows...).
- The planet got long, detailed informative posts, such as the wrap-up of the "Lost community" thread. When someone makes a request on the mailing list, it is a mark of good netizenship to summarize the answers on one's blog like this (or on the wiki).
- There were discussions on what would be the job description of a community manager and decisions on lowering barriers to participation (i.e. access to write priviledges in code repositories) happened.
More
Outside Openmoko
- Linux 2.6.27 released.
- Pulseaudio released version 0.9.13 with experimental support for Bluetooth devices.
Archives
See also
How are newsletters organized elsewhere: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2008-October/032628.html