Re: Openmoko Community newsletter, October 4th to 19th
Well done Minh, this is really important work! r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Openmoko Community newsletter, October 4th to 19th
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well done, by me too! It helped me a lot to follow what happen to Community! Thank you Minh Ha Duong wrote: Hello everybody, welcome to the unofficial Openmoko Community newsletter, October 4th to 19th issue. The two big news are the launch of opkg.org, an application directory, and Openmoko engineering team focusing back to the basics on Improving user experience. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/October_19th%2C_2008#Applications Contents * 1 Images * 2 Applications * 3 Good fixes and discussed issues * 4 Community * 5 Outside Openmoko Images Things were rather quiet on the distribution front. Rasterman's October 11th images (source) were put online. This is not really a distribution, but rather a demonstration that illume runs well and is so beautiful, for others distros to grab. We also saw daily SHR image builds online, no release yet but available for testing. And Qi, the next bootloader, recently got resume support.Testing shows that it is much faster than uboot indeed, but no release yet either. Applications Everybody applauded when Tobias announced http://opkg.org , an online directory of applications (think Freshmeat, Tucows...). The database is community-driven, everybody can register and index applications. In the flow of community developped utilities, I noticed: * the initial release of OpenMooCow, a nice, funny and useless bovine noise simulator. * Optimizations on Rotate. This is an interesting example of competition and cooperation (community development, if you prefer), because there are many versions being developed in parallel, with ideas jumping across all the time. * The Gestures GSoC project developper managed to convince his academic instructors to let him code on the FreeRunner for his degree. Future developments coming at http://AccelSense.org * Auxlaunch is a very simple, finger-friendly application launcher and window switcher for the Freerunner. It appears when the AUX button is pressed. With respect to porting other applications to our favorite platform, I read that Intel's made powertop actually runs on the FreeRunner. This is an very handy utility that allows to measure and therefore optimize power usage. Also: * FBReader an e-book reader programme now available for Debian and 2008.8 * Sander ported Pingus the free lemmings clone, for OE based distributions (it was already available on Debian). * In addition to minimo, openmoko-browser2, and midori, we saw a bunch of light and fast web browsers announced on the mailing list: Fennec), Dillo (ipk), NetSurf and links2. That makes about seven, working more or less well. Choice, choice, choice... * The same is happening for music players: pythm, openmoko-mediaplayer2, qtopia media player, deforaOS-player, qmmp, sonata, quasar. Thomas's K. also started a mediaplayer. So far I think that your best friend is mplayer from the command line interface (and on 2008.8, I think that mplayer is directly connected to OSS, so installing OSS compatibility packages probably help. And removing pulseaudio also saves tons of CPU cycles) Good fixes and discussed issues Many good news: * There is a fix for ticket 2038 about Qtopia USSD requests, so that dialing *123 or #4 should work soon. * There is a fix for ticket 1024, the GSM keeps reregistering bug, a.k.a. bouncing Calypso issue. The workaround is to prevent the modem from entering deep sleep, and it has been commited to the QTopia images already. * Powersaving patches landed in stable-2.6.26 on October 8th. Note to application developpers: the best way to blank the screen to conserve power is the fbdev-ioctl method. I think that xset s 5 should do it. Thanks to the Harald and the Swisscom research project ! * OM announced two hires: Ray Chao, to work full-time in Taipei on the infrastructure, and Christopher Hall, a very experienced software engineer. * Infrastructure-wise, unstable development of OM is moving back to OE. Too many bugs remain, see Test reports for example. Most of the grief heard these days was about Digital Audio Playing and Wifi. I would like to make an unrequested announcement for the sake of the good vertical communication: Kernels currently has the APM power management interface is still compiled in. This has been deprecated for years and is doomed to go away. Hopefully apm -s will still work for suspend, but userspace applications that still use the deprecated apm interface SHOULD take action, preferably sooner than later. Community * Openmoko's engineers reunited for a 3 weeks workshop in Taipei. They decided to focus back on the basics, that is to leave the Installer, Locations, Diversity and Settings applications alone for a while. This decision was very
Re: Openmoko Community newsletter, October 4th to 19th
Great overview what has happened in a relatively short period of time. Very well written for its purpose. Short, to the point. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Openmoko Community newsletter, October 4th to 19th
Excellent report, Minh! I've been having too little time to follow the traffic, you're a life saver! :) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Openmoko Community newsletter, October 4th to 19th
Excellent summary, many hours saved. Much appreciated, please keep it up. Cheers Denis On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Minh Ha Duong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, welcome to the unofficial Openmoko Community newsletter, October 4th to 19th issue. The two big news are the launch of opkg.org, an application directory, and Openmoko engineering team focusing back to the basics on Improving user experience. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/October_19th%2C_2008#Applications Contents * 1 Images * 2 Applications * 3 Good fixes and discussed issues * 4 Community * 5 Outside Openmoko Images Things were rather quiet on the distribution front. Rasterman's October 11th images (source) were put online. This is not really a distribution, but rather a demonstration that illume runs well and is so beautiful, for others distros to grab. We also saw daily SHR image builds online, no release yet but available for testing. And Qi, the next bootloader, recently got resume support.Testing shows that it is much faster than uboot indeed, but no release yet either. Applications Everybody applauded when Tobias announced http://opkg.org , an online directory of applications (think Freshmeat, Tucows...). The database is community-driven, everybody can register and index applications. In the flow of community developped utilities, I noticed: * the initial release of OpenMooCow, a nice, funny and useless bovine noise simulator. * Optimizations on Rotate. This is an interesting example of competition and cooperation (community development, if you prefer), because there are many versions being developed in parallel, with ideas jumping across all the time. * The Gestures GSoC project developper managed to convince his academic instructors to let him code on the FreeRunner for his degree. Future developments coming at http://AccelSense.org * Auxlaunch is a very simple, finger-friendly application launcher and window switcher for the Freerunner. It appears when the AUX button is pressed. With respect to porting other applications to our favorite platform, I read that Intel's made powertop actually runs on the FreeRunner. This is an very handy utility that allows to measure and therefore optimize power usage. Also: * FBReader an e-book reader programme now available for Debian and 2008.8 * Sander ported Pingus the free lemmings clone, for OE based distributions (it was already available on Debian). * In addition to minimo, openmoko-browser2, and midori, we saw a bunch of light and fast web browsers announced on the mailing list: Fennec), Dillo (ipk), NetSurf and links2. That makes about seven, working more or less well. Choice, choice, choice... * The same is happening for music players: pythm, openmoko-mediaplayer2, qtopia media player, deforaOS-player, qmmp, sonata, quasar. Thomas's K. also started a mediaplayer. So far I think that your best friend is mplayer from the command line interface (and on 2008.8, I think that mplayer is directly connected to OSS, so installing OSS compatibility packages probably help. And removing pulseaudio also saves tons of CPU cycles) Good fixes and discussed issues Many good news: * There is a fix for ticket 2038 about Qtopia USSD requests, so that dialing *123 or #4 should work soon. * There is a fix for ticket 1024, the GSM keeps reregistering bug, a.k.a. bouncing Calypso issue. The workaround is to prevent the modem from entering deep sleep, and it has been commited to the QTopia images already. * Powersaving patches landed in stable-2.6.26 on October 8th. Note to application developpers: the best way to blank the screen to conserve power is the fbdev-ioctl method. I think that xset s 5 should do it. Thanks to the Harald and the Swisscom research project ! * OM announced two hires: Ray Chao, to work full-time in Taipei on the infrastructure, and Christopher Hall, a very experienced software engineer. * Infrastructure-wise, unstable development of OM is moving back to OE. Too many bugs remain, see Test reports for example. Most of the grief heard these days was about Digital Audio Playing and Wifi. I would like to make an unrequested announcement for the sake of the good vertical communication: Kernels currently has the APM power management interface is still compiled in. This has been deprecated for years and is doomed to go away. Hopefully apm -s will still work for suspend, but userspace applications that still use the deprecated apm interface SHOULD take action, preferably sooner than later. Community * Openmoko's engineers reunited for a 3 weeks workshop in Taipei. They decided to focus back on the basics, that is to leave the Installer, Locations, Diversity and Settings applications alone for a while. This decision was very positively received by everybody. John Lee is assembling the engineering task force at
Re: Openmoko Community newsletter, October 4th to 19th
as others have said, thanks alot for your work with these updates Minh! Great stuff! Minh Ha Duong wrote: Hello everybody, welcome to the unofficial Openmoko Community newsletter, October 4th to 19th issue. The two big news are the launch of opkg.org, an application directory, and Openmoko engineering team focusing back to the basics on Improving user experience. http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/October_19th%2C_2008#Applications Contents * 1 Images * 2 Applications * 3 Good fixes and discussed issues * 4 Community * 5 Outside Openmoko Images Things were rather quiet on the distribution front. Rasterman's October 11th images (source) were put online. This is not really a distribution, but rather a demonstration that illume runs well and is so beautiful, for others distros to grab. We also saw daily SHR image builds online, no release yet but available for testing. And Qi, the next bootloader, recently got resume support.Testing shows that it is much faster than uboot indeed, but no release yet either. Applications Everybody applauded when Tobias announced http://opkg.org , an online directory of applications (think Freshmeat, Tucows...). The database is community-driven, everybody can register and index applications. In the flow of community developped utilities, I noticed: * the initial release of OpenMooCow, a nice, funny and useless bovine noise simulator. * Optimizations on Rotate. This is an interesting example of competition and cooperation (community development, if you prefer), because there are many versions being developed in parallel, with ideas jumping across all the time. * The Gestures GSoC project developper managed to convince his academic instructors to let him code on the FreeRunner for his degree. Future developments coming at http://AccelSense.org * Auxlaunch is a very simple, finger-friendly application launcher and window switcher for the Freerunner. It appears when the AUX button is pressed. With respect to porting other applications to our favorite platform, I read that Intel's made powertop actually runs on the FreeRunner. This is an very handy utility that allows to measure and therefore optimize power usage. Also: * FBReader an e-book reader programme now available for Debian and 2008.8 * Sander ported Pingus the free lemmings clone, for OE based distributions (it was already available on Debian). * In addition to minimo, openmoko-browser2, and midori, we saw a bunch of light and fast web browsers announced on the mailing list: Fennec), Dillo (ipk), NetSurf and links2. That makes about seven, working more or less well. Choice, choice, choice... * The same is happening for music players: pythm, openmoko-mediaplayer2, qtopia media player, deforaOS-player, qmmp, sonata, quasar. Thomas's K. also started a mediaplayer. So far I think that your best friend is mplayer from the command line interface (and on 2008.8, I think that mplayer is directly connected to OSS, so installing OSS compatibility packages probably help. And removing pulseaudio also saves tons of CPU cycles) Good fixes and discussed issues Many good news: * There is a fix for ticket 2038 about Qtopia USSD requests, so that dialing *123 or #4 should work soon. * There is a fix for ticket 1024, the GSM keeps reregistering bug, a.k.a. bouncing Calypso issue. The workaround is to prevent the modem from entering deep sleep, and it has been commited to the QTopia images already. * Powersaving patches landed in stable-2.6.26 on October 8th. Note to application developpers: the best way to blank the screen to conserve power is the fbdev-ioctl method. I think that xset s 5 should do it. Thanks to the Harald and the Swisscom research project ! * OM announced two hires: Ray Chao, to work full-time in Taipei on the infrastructure, and Christopher Hall, a very experienced software engineer. * Infrastructure-wise, unstable development of OM is moving back to OE. Too many bugs remain, see Test reports for example. Most of the grief heard these days was about Digital Audio Playing and Wifi. I would like to make an unrequested announcement for the sake of the good vertical communication: Kernels currently has the APM power management interface is still compiled in. This has been deprecated for years and is doomed to go away. Hopefully apm -s will still work for suspend, but userspace applications that still use the deprecated apm interface SHOULD take action, preferably sooner than later. Community * Openmoko's engineers reunited for a 3 weeks workshop in Taipei. They decided to focus back on the basics, that is to leave the Installer, Locations, Diversity and Settings applications alone for a while. This decision was very positively received by everybody. John Lee is assembling the engineering
Re: Openmoko Community newsletter, October 4th to 19th
Hi! Is NetFront really availavble on OpenMoko? I tried to find it, but without any luck. Can somebody post some link? ah, and thanks for the newsletter :) Kamil ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
