Re: Looking for a GPS only distribution for Freerunner

2012-02-14 Thread Guilhem Bonnefille
Thanks for answer. I realized I was not as clear as needed. 2012/2/12 Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi: Guilhem Bonnefille guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com writes: version of TomTom). In order to exploit the maximum of the hardware, I imagined to installed a really dedicated distribution,

Re: Looking for a GPS only distribution for Freerunner

2012-02-14 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
So, I'm looking for someone already working on a project like this: selecting and configuring the right tools for converting a FreeRunner in a raw in-car GPS. Why not making a GPS-only image, for instance in the SHR distribution. it's just a mather of selecting the right packages to put in the

Re: Looking for a GPS only distribution for Freerunner

2012-02-14 Thread robin
a very lightweight distribution which gave some live to my old ibm x31 is bodhi linux based on e17 and ubuntu. tries not to install any unnessesary stuff. best regards robin ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: Looking for a GPS only distribution for Freerunner

2012-02-13 Thread robin
Maybe you can add navit to the gamerunner project: http://gamerunner.sourceforge.net they say it is very minimal Minimal rootfs with the proper libs for games (like SDL and Allegro) also has no services running, so you would need somehow to start gpsd. robin

Looking for a GPS only distribution for Freerunner

2012-02-12 Thread Guilhem Bonnefille
Hi, Due to a recent move to N900 (developped in [1]) as main phone, my Neo Freerunner lost is phone responsibility. In order to avoid storing it on a shelf, I imagined to convert it as raw in car GPS (sort of open version of TomTom). In order to exploit the maximum of the hardware, I imagined to

Re: Looking for a GPS only distribution for Freerunner

2012-02-12 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Guilhem Bonnefille guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com writes: version of TomTom). In order to exploit the maximum of the hardware, I imagined to installed a really dedicated distribution, Distributions are made of packages, why not just take an existing distribution and only install the packages you

Re: Looking for a GPS only distribution for Freerunner

2012-02-12 Thread Boudewijn
On Sunday 12 February 2012 22:05:47 Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Guilhem Bonnefille guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com writes: Do you know such a project? Someone started similar project? Do you have any suggestion to start something like this? I'd just take some distribution that you know and