Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-05-31 Thread Shlomi Loubaton
2009/5/29 Lionel Elie Mamane lio...@mamane.lu   - That you can get root access on a G1 is an accident in history, not   by design. An accident which tends to occur over and over again. (see link in my previous message)   - The shipped applications have a very closed mindset: upload all  

Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-05-31 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:38:23AM +0300, Shlomi Loubaton wrote: 2009/5/29 Lionel Elie Mamane lio...@mamane.lu   - That you can get root access on a G1 is an accident in history, not   by design. An accident which tends to occur over and over again. (see link in my previous message)

Re: Netfilter module name oddity

2009-05-31 Thread Rami Rosen
Hello, All this is true, but I just want to add these two points: In Ira mail, he mentions many modules which start with xt_* like: 10809 /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-amd64/kernel/net/netfilter/xt_connmark.ko 12079 /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-amd64/kernel/net/netfilter/xt_CONNMARK.ko 10066

[JOB OFFER] Toolchain project

2009-05-31 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, Ethos Networks is looking for a company or individual with specific experience with cross toolchains to help us build a complete development environment for our platform. Our CPU is a PowerQUICC III, and we're currently using a slightly old version of Freescale's ltib environment; we'd

Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-05-31 Thread Shlomi Loubaton
2009/5/31 Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il: But it means that the setup voids your warantee. And if you happen to brick your new toy along the way? you get a nice small paperwieght for your desktop. That's something to factor in the price. True. Now, think about somebody who wants to

Re: Perpetual quest for GNU smartphone

2009-05-31 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 1, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Shlomi Loubaton wrote: There was a company who made a lot of noise around providing MAC compatibles recently. They finally wen bankrupt a while ago. http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2009/05/mac_clone_maker_psystar_goes_bankrupt.html Bad example. Psystar