Speaking of Inferno on Cellphones:
Hellaphone -- Inferno on Android phones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_-jQc53jw [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dF_-jQc53jw/hqdefault.jpg]<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_-jQc53jw> Hellaphone -- Inferno on Android phones - YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_-jQc53jw> www.youtube.com This is a demonstration of Inferno running on an Android phone. Sandia National Labs has adapted the Inferno operating system to act as a more phone-oriented... J.V. King ________________________________ From: Community <[email protected]> on behalf of David Boddie <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 12:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Tinkerphones] Curious 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://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newit.co.uk%2Fshop%2FEFIKA_MX_Smartbook&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb3434727ec184230736508d5d2d979ff%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636646753845199329&sdata=7n58m5hEEyN4NMYihzjWels3OqQ9%2BrwooqCJs7c70l8%3D&reserved=0 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: https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffreebsdfoundation.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F11%2Fnew-funded-project-porting-efika.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb3434727ec184230736508d5d2d979ff%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636646753845199329&sdata=XTGPDL3Dv3Pl9qNBrfoQxhO0oOhsWn5UVCF9oiDQZ8k%3D&reserved=0 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 (https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Finferno-os.org%2Finferno%2Findex.html&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb3434727ec184230736508d5d2d979ff%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636646753845199329&sdata=DXHSqst9l8VNb2gZ7ZRRxqmEiqTImpstMrJ%2BjhImXII%3D&reserved=0) 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 [email protected] https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.goldelico.com%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo.cgi%2Fcommunity&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb3434727ec184230736508d5d2d979ff%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636646753845199329&sdata=vJhH9QHo7D5a1ViTg5UlKhVzPAf8Ny2EqVLlX2Tu6js%3D&reserved=0 https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tinkerphones.org&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb3434727ec184230736508d5d2d979ff%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636646753845199329&sdata=2nOX%2FcC5phgvn1LOo2DIMz5VOr7mNc0C20yalIL65kI%3D&reserved=0
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