Hi all,
Recent Community Update is out! Take a look at "News" link in
"Community" box on wiki pages to read it. A text version of the update
is included beneath this text, but it's partially more readable, and
especially clickable, in the wiki.
For your convenience here is direct link:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2010-04-01
and feel also free to contribute to the new draft at:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/Draft_2010-05-01
Thanks to all contributors of this issue of CU:
* Zeusone
* Faltantornillos
* TimoJyrinki
* Hns
* Multi
* Vanous
* Martix
* Valos
* Kichkasch
ps. Feel free to do this announcement yourself in the change of the
next month, there is no dedicated maintainer of community updates, ie.
it's all of us :)
Community Updates/2010-04-01
Period 2010-03-01 to 2010-03-31
** Distributions **
Debian GNU/Linux
Debian (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian) is a universal operating
system used on many other embedded devices, and also on home
computers. Using Debian on the FreeRunner gives access to the Huge
army of software packaged in the Debian repositories, already compiled
for the Neo's arm(v4) processor. Moreover, one can build one's own
source files for programs without having to learn the OpenEmbedded
way. For an existing Debian/Ubuntu user, choosing Debian for Neo
FreeRunner makes phone a very familiar, trustworthy and flexible place
to hack in.
The following new noteworthy packages have appeared in the pkg-fso
repository, a staging area for FreeRunner related packages not yet in
official Debian:
- literki (http://pkg-fso.nomeata.de/sid/literki), keyboard with
configurable layout and transparency
- woosh (http://pkg-fso.nomeata.de/sid/woosh), minimalistic browser
optimized for touch screens
- libdrm-glamo (http://pkg-fso.nomeata.de/sid/libdrm-glamo1),
userspace interface to glamo-specific kernel DRM services, more info
at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fso-maint/2010-March/002731.html
Each of the above has varying reasons they are not yet uploaded to
official Debian archives. Literki included a version of png++ in its
sources, and png++ has now been separated and literki will soon follow
it to official Debian archives. The future of woosh browser is a bit
uncertain, so it's waiting a bit eg. for a better replacement.
Finally, libdrm-glamo is naturally waiting for the eventual inclusion
of Glamo code in an upstream release, together with the hopeful
integration of all Glamo code in upstream (Torvalds') Linux kernel.
Besides applications, the following FSO components have been recently
uploaded to official Debian archives: libphone-utils
0.1+git20091220-2, libgsm0710_1.2.1+git20100218-1,
libfsobasics_0.9.0+git20100304-2, libfsoframework_0.2.4+git20100222-1,
libfsotransport_0.9.5.9+git20100308-1,
libgsm0710mux_0.9.1+git20100310-1, libfso-glib_0.2.1+git20100304-1
Codename: 'sid'
Homepage: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner
Image: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian
HardwareWorks
Neo 1973yes
FreeRunner yes
HTC-Dream yes
Other yes
** Applications **
*** New Applications ***
eStarDict 0.2
Offline dictionary reader made in C with Enlightenment Elementary UI
Homepage: http://www.vaudano.eu/wiki/en/estardict
Package: estardict
Tested on: SHR-Unstable,SHR-Testing
Chroneo 1.0.0
Stopwatch and Timer
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/chroneo/
Package: chroneo
Tested on: SHR-Unstable
*** Application Updates ***
Bright Player 0.3
Quick and easy music player
* bug fixes
* SHR- testing compatible
Homepage: http://www.faltantornillos.net/gnu/bright-player/
Package: [http://www.opkg.org/packages/brightplayer_0.3_all.ipk Bright
Player 0.3]
Tested on: SHR-Testing
NeoLight 1.4.0
An application to turn your phone into a flashlight
* Allocate "Display" resource when flashlight is active (no
display blank, no suspend)
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/neolight/
Package: neolight
Tested on: SHR-Testing, SHR-Unstable
Podboy 1.5.0
Podboy is a podcast aggregator/player. Its interface aims to be easy
and finger friendly. Main changes since version 1.3.0 are:
* Played episodes that are older than a specified amount of days
(defined in Settings) can be auto-deleted on every startup.
* Episodes can now be tagged as "(un)deletable" in page
"Episodes". All episodes with status "undeletable" will be ignored
when auto-deletion of old episodes will be done on startup.
* Podcasts can be renamed.
* Downloads can be canceled.
* Add possiblity to activate multi selection in lists (a new
option is available in section "Interface" of Settings).
* Lot of improvements in feed parsing (add and update).
* Now, when a "Check For Updates" is done for several podcasts, a
full report is displayed in a dialog.
* Podcasts source URLs can be edited.
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/podboy/
Package: podboy
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