On 7/17/07, vivek khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > just realized my question is incorrectly stated. > > should read: anybody ordered the Neo1973? > > the openMoko is a platform that can run on anything, > > anywhere, you > > Shipping price is too high because of low volume of > devices. $120 is not a normal shipping price you pay. > Anyways i know that one device has been ordered and I > will be able to get my hands on the device for limited > period. Will show it around at ilug meet when it > arrives.
great! look forward to that ilug-d meet too. > > > choose to port it to. > > including, but not limited to digital cameras, > > dvd-players, or any > > other convergence device. all thanks to liberal > > licensing and strong > > encouragements from the openmoko founders. > > You have diverted again. Openmoko is a distribution, > base platform is openembedded > http://www.openembedded.org/ . You can run > openembedded on almost any kind of computer/device > (anything with a microcontroller or a processor). > There are some other successful openembedded based > distros for mobile phones like angstrom > http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/ . Btw anstrom > works out of the box on neo (i have run it on qemu, as > well as there are confirmed reports of running > angstrom on physical device). > sure! am aware of the base platform. however, the term openmoko platform is used by openmoko, and what i've said above is from what they explain in their communication. someone's ported openmoko to a treo already. developers are being encouraged to port and further develop from over 3,500 apps to openmoko, including from zaurus. <shameless plug> i got rather excited about the openmoko, so quickly authored an article on openmoko this morning that gets published this wednesday in the mint newspaper. am also inviting people to share with me if they get inspired and register a project for the openmoko. by the way, check out the wiki on some of the amazing ideas people are working on. someone's hacking to port asterisk to it, to run among other things, an EPBX service over it. i wrote to sean, the founder of the project, for more info, and was impressed at his prompt and direct response. </shameless plug> :-) niyam bhushan _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
