Hi there! Nice to hear and see new people entering the community!
And it's great that you'll get your unit soon - it just makes more sense to devel with the unit, not with qemu as you can use the touchscreen, you feel the speed, accelerometers, everything. But it all depends on what do you want to do and in what kind of projects to participate. First of all, there are many different distributions you can install on the phone. I myself use OM2009 unstable (see http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om2009 ), some other use SHR, some use Debian. Also Gentoo, Android, QTextended (or whatever it's called nowadays), Hackable1, openwrt are around and some more I forgot. Then there are many applications written primarly for Openmoko phones, like omgps (see http://code.google.com/p/omgps/ ). If you want to start contributing and you know python, I suggest you to have a look at Paroli, the phone application of OM2009. Paroli has now been written for maybe some 6 months and is quite usable, but still needs some love before it'll be launched as stable. If you're interested, have a look at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2009_get_active#Paroli_phone_software - the work on Paroli will benefit many users and it's a smooth start for you, for example rewriting the wlan workflow (see http://www.paroli-project.org/trac/ticket/171 ) or include a bluetooth support. You're welcome to join #paroli irc-channel for more questions. Enjoy your freedom! r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
