OpenMoko Freerunner

2008-07-21 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
I just took delivery of my new OpenMoko Freerunner and thought I'd share. I'm really excited to play with it, but alas, I still have to complete my workday. -N ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org

Re: OpenMoko Freerunner

2008-07-21 Thread Travis Roy
I saw some of the first videos of it and I was very unimpressed: http://www.vimeo.com/1366042?pg=embedsec=1366042 On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just took delivery of my new OpenMoko Freerunner and thought I'd share. I'm really excited to

Re: OpenMoko Freerunner

2008-07-21 Thread Neil Joseph Schelly
Yeah, the software that comes on it is pretty dated unfortunately, but flashing it seems pretty easy. It's not too polished yet, but I think there's a tremendous potential. To say the least, I'll need to play some later on and get the newer qt-based interface on it I think. -N On Monday 21

Re: OpenMoko Freerunner

2008-07-21 Thread Travis Roy
If you look at that link there is a link to Trainwreck 2.. He used the QT interface there.. Also not impressed. My old Zaurus, while not having phone function seemed much better and run much faster and smoother, and that was like 8 years ago. I'll admit that it's a neat toy but it has way to

Re: OpenMoko Freerunner

2008-07-21 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
The Openmoko FreeRunner is being sold as a developer release at this point. People that expect a polished, complete distribution are going to be disappointed. There are several stacks of software available for the phone, all of them able to be flashed into the phone, and there are some that are

sudo problems. anyone feeling up to it?

2008-07-21 Thread Steven W. Orr
We have a bunch of old debian sarge distros running and we're slowly upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. For reasons that are not important here, we need to run our python app as root. So we added ALL ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/python to the sudoers file. (Yeah yeah don't start.) The problem

Re: sudo problems. anyone feeling up to it?

2008-07-21 Thread Mark Greene
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a bunch of old debian sarge distros running and we're slowly upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. For reasons that are not important here, we need to run our python app as root. So we added ALL ALL = NOPASSWD:

Re: sudo problems. anyone feeling up to it?

2008-07-21 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Monday, Jul 21st 2008 at 14:18 -, quoth Mark Greene: =On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Steven W. Orr [EMAIL PROTECTED] =wrote: = We have a bunch of old debian sarge distros running and we're = slowly = upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn. = = For reasons that are not

Re: sudo problems. anyone feeling up to it?

2008-07-21 Thread Coleman Kane
On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:25 -0400, Shawn O'Shea wrote: The problem is that under the FF release, sudo is acting broken, i.e., not like the man page sez it's supposed to. Under FF, I lose my HOME envvar. I'm not supposed to lose it.

Re: sudo problems. anyone feeling up to it?

2008-07-21 Thread Shawn O'Shea
The problem is that under the FF release, sudo is acting broken, i.e., not like the man page sez it's supposed to. Under FF, I lose my HOME envvar. I'm not supposed to lose it. 503 sudo python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Mar 7 2008, 04:10:12) [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu

Re: sudo problems. anyone feeling up to it?

2008-07-21 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Monday, Jul 21st 2008 at 14:25 -, quoth Shawn O'Shea: = = = = The problem is that under the FF release, sudo is acting = broken, i.e., not = like the man page sez it's supposed to. Under FF, I lose my = HOME envvar. = I'm not supposed to lose it. = = 503 sudo

Re: sudo problems. anyone feeling up to it?

2008-07-21 Thread John Abreau
As a sanity check, I'd verify whether it's being removed by sudo or by python: ALL ALL = NOPASSWD: /bin/bash sudo bash echo $HOME After verifying which was responsible, the next thing I'd wonder is whether SELinux is doing something unexpected. On Mon, July 21, 2008 2:07 pm,

Re: OpenMoko Freerunner

2008-07-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My old Zaurus, while not having phone function ... ^^^ You once gave me a fair bit of grief, in this very forum, because I stated I preferred a separate handheld computer and

Multi vs unitasker

2008-07-21 Thread Tom Buskey
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Travis Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My old Zaurus, while not having phone function ... ^^^ You once gave me a fair bit of grief, in this very

Re: OpenMoko Freerunner

2008-07-21 Thread Travis Roy
At the time that I had the Zaurus there weren't many smartphones out there, and the ones that were were VERY expensive. I currently have a Treo and loved it and I stand by my comment that a phone with PDA is better. On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul