On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:27:54 +0200, Thibaut Girka wrote: > 1°) µSD, yes, but NAND? > In any case, µSD will be supported, but do you think it is worthy to provide > support for Debian on the NAND? > It shouldn't be that hard, but I don't think there is any benefit in it, > since there is only 256MB available.
Debian in NAND might be nice but I'm not sure it works out ... > 2°) What bootloader should be supported? Qi? U-Boot? Both? > The boot process slightly differs between Qi and U-Boot. > The installation process will use the ROM U-Boot (since it's available on any > FR, and provide useful things like DFU), > but once Debian is installed, it should be easier to use Qi. > What about U-Boot support? Is it really needed? Should we assume Qi is > installed on the NAND? > Or maybe install it ourselves (but this way sounds far too intrusive)? I don't think any assumptions on what's already there can be made. But d-i could offer to install a bootloader in NAND. > 3°) Which Desktop Environment should be the default? > Gnome is the default DE for a desktop installation of Debian, but it, of > course, isn't suitable for the FR. > I guess the main challengers are: > * XFCE: quite similar to Gnome, stable, usable, it has been in Debian for a > long time and there is already a task for it > * Illume: faster and finger-friendly, but much more experimental, and > available in unstable only I'm quite happy with matchbox. That said, I think the important thing is to get a working Debian base system on the Freerunner, the user can install anything else later anyway. > 4°) The phone suite > Well, after all, the FreeRunner is a phone. > A quick testing of Zhone, already available in Debian, shows that it seems > reliable and relatively fast. > However, it is really simple, and does not provide many features. That's politely put :) > Then, do you use your FR as a phone? If yes, what software do you use? I'd like too, but neither phone nor the SHR stuff looked very promising to me, and I don't know anything else at the moment. (Maybe ofono + telepathy-yafono would be interesing but I haven't looked at them yet.) In general I think the question of applications is not that important, I'd concentrate more on the core (d-i installing a kernel, installing/configuring a boot loader, the base system and ssh). Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Aimee Mann: Nothing is Good Enough
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