On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 17:54:56 +0200, H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > What are you currently working on (wrt. to Tinkerphones)? > What do you expect from doing this? What are you missing > most? What should happen to make you contribute here more > actively?
I haven't done much related to Tinkerphones in the last few months. I was away for a while starting then quitting a new job, so I didn't really plan to do much. One of the things I did in preparation for moving away to work was to try and prepare a more modern Linux kernel and userspace for an old laptop I picked up at the end of last year: https://www.newit.co.uk/shop/EFIKA_MX_Smartbook It's now out of stock at that vendor, and they seemed to be the last place to sell it. :-( I wanted to pick up a unit before they disappeared completely. A Debian contributor had ported Jessie to it and I was able to use his distribution but couldn't reproduce the build myself, which was frustrating. I also got a modern FreeBSD system running on it thanks to the existing port that had been done many years ago: http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2012/11/new-funded-project-porting-efika.html Getting it running was simply a case of using the correct configuration, reverting a more recent change to USB support and using a custom version of U-Boot that the developer had made. So there is a way to use an up-to-date Unix-like system on this old hardware that doesn't involve Linux. ;-) I also played around with Inferno (http://inferno-os.org/inferno/index.html) again, running it as a guest OS under Linux on the laptop, and trying to do a native port to the hardware. Inferno is an interesting, but under-explored system, possibly because keeps some Unix heritage but discards a lot of what other Unix derivatives need to run software. I keep coming back to it because I find it fascinating and it contains a lot of technologies that look like they would be really useful. David _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@tinkerphones.org http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org
