Vijay Vaidyanathan wrote: > I'm trying to make a decision on whether to drop in a new distribution to > replace the 2007.2 that came preinstalled on my FR.
Me too. > Is there an "official" distribution that is blessed and "supported" by > "OpenMoko - The Company" and is most future-proof. AFAIK, the answer is "Not yet, but many people are working very hard to get to a better answer." > 1. Why has OpenMoko (The Company) chosen not to support one definitive > distribution as its official one? I'd like to understand the logic behind > it. What are end-users (i.e. those who will surely have no desire to flash a > new distro) expected to be eventually using? There has been a lot of (sometimes bitter) discussion about this. > 2. Which distro are you currently using? I'm using whatever came on the phone. I did 'opkg update && opkg upgrade' the day after I got the phone. I've made a few changes based on the wiki, or stuff I read in emails. The one that made the biggest difference was installing the matchbox keyboard, as built by Arne. I don't really plan on doing a whole lot more for the next couple weeks. > and why? Several reasons: *) I expect that something better will be along shortly. I think having real hardware in people's hands constitutes a critical mass, and we'll start seeing a clear(er) direction. *) I'm completely swamped with work right now, and then I'm going to be traveling for ten days (including going to OSCON). I might have some time to play with the phone while I'm away, but not much. *) I'm hoping that the FSO framework will make some good progress. That seems (to me) like the right way to go. I can wrap my head around a dbus based world, and more importantly, I can code to it in python. *) I'm waiting for some of the dust to settle in the GTK / Enlightenment / Qt fracas. I only want to learn one UI toolkit. *) I'm a high-level guy, and embedded stuff is way out of my comfort zone, so there's not much I can *do* right now anyways. The major stuff I want to do is dependent on things like cron/scheduling and a working browser (with adjustable font sizes, bookmarks, and the ability to read local files). -- Dirk _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
