Ten general QtMoko and Debian questions
I just aquired a Freerunner, and after checking out the list of distributions on the wiki I've narrowed it down to Debian and QtMoko. I'm leaning toward QtMoko but I'm unsure about a few things: 1. What are the advantages to using QTMoko over Debian on a Freerunner? 2. I like that it is built for touch by default in QtMoko but would also like to fall back to a desktop-like environment when needed (i.e. something like Openbox that isn't optimized for touch); this is possible, no? 3. Does QTMoko offer all the software in the Debian repositories? 4. Can I install a different window manager than the default one if wanted? 5. Are there any glaring software limitations regarding the Freerunner that QtMoko has that Debian doesn't? 6. They both use the same kernel, right? 7. From what I've seen it seems like QtMoko is being more actively developed than Debian on the Freerunner currently; is this true? 8. If I prefer the debian-unstable packages can I use that repository on QtMoko? 9. If I were to upgrade to a GTA04 at some point, would the transition be any easier on one distribution than the other? 10. Is either distribution more thouroughly tested with the GTA04 than the other? Thanks ahead of time for the answers. -- Harry Prevor ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Ten general QtMoko and Debian questions
Harry Prevor wrote: I just aquired a Freerunner, and after checking out the list of distributions on the wiki I've narrowed it down to Debian and QtMoko. I'm leaning toward QtMoko but I'm unsure about a few things: 1. What are the advantages to using QTMoko over Debian on a Freerunner? snip Thanks ahead of time for the answers. All I would say is that trying to read the screen running lxde is difficult, and aiming a stylus at the right spot is even more difficult. Frankly QtMoko is beautiful - just a lovely interface to look at. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: OpenMoko wiki needs to be set to read-only due to spam
On 10/31/12, Harald Welte lafo...@gnumonks.org wrote: Hi Paul, I put it on my TODO list and will hopefully be able to do it still today. Thanks for pointing it out. On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 04:50:46PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Hi Harald, all, To whoever is able to make the OpenMoko wiki read-only, please do so since no-one is monitoring it for spam and removing that: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges Sorry for bringing this somewhat old topic up, but why did this have to be done? I can understand restricting editing to registered users only or adding CAPTCHAs to prevent spam, but isn't making the (still very important) wiki entirely read only very exccessive? I've found a few pages with errors but I'm now unable to edit them, seemingly forever. Please reconsider this. -- Harry Prevor ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Ten general QtMoko and Debian questions
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:00:12 +1100 Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: Harry Prevor wrote: I just aquired a Freerunner, and after checking out the list of distributions on the wiki I've narrowed it down to Debian and QtMoko. I'm leaning toward QtMoko but I'm unsure about a few things: 1. What are the advantages to using QTMoko over Debian on a Freerunner? snip Thanks ahead of time for the answers. All I would say is that trying to read the screen running lxde is difficult, and aiming a stylus at the right spot is even more difficult. Frankly QtMoko is beautiful - just a lovely interface to look at. I agree, you won't be too happy choosing Debian as it's simply too hard to read. What you can do however is install QtMoko or another distro of your choice to NAND and then install a second distro to an mSD card. It can be a bit tricky to boot from either since it requires timing button presses just right. I've honestly forgotten which one boots by default, I've been using an N900 as my primary phone for some months now, but iirc it will boot to mSD first. On my FreeRunner I've got both QtMoko on NAND and AoF on mSD. Both work pretty well but imho QtMoko is the better choice for use as a phone and AoF works well with Moonreader as an ebook reader. SHR was okay last I tried it but the 'stable' branch was old and the only other option is the bleeding edge not always fully working branch. SHR also requires an immediate change of power consumption settings to make it usable imho. Since they're far too aggressive by default. Brian ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: OpenMoko wiki needs to be set to read-only due to spam
On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 18:57 -0500, Harry Prevor wrote: Sorry for bringing this somewhat old topic up, but why did this have to be done? I can understand restricting editing to registered users only or adding CAPTCHAs to prevent spam, but isn't making the (still very important) wiki entirely read only very exccessive? I've found a few pages with errors but I'm now unable to edit them, seemingly forever. Please reconsider this. The only sysadmin (Harald) doesn't yet have time to setup some anti-spam mechanisms. I've volunteered as a second sysadmin but Harald hasn't had time to do some things that are needed before he can add me to the team. Making the wiki read-only is a stop-gap measure until some anti-spam stuff can be setup and all the spam pages removed by myself or Harald. -- bye, pabs http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
