Matthias Apitz <guru <at> unixarea.de> writes: > > > Hello, > > I'm thinking in a fresh install of my FR GTA02 (at the moment > Om2008.9); what I would need at least are: > - GPS && OpenstreetMap (tango) > - TCP over USB and SSH into the FR > - Terminal with Stardict > - PIM, SMS, call > - X11vnc server > Any recommendation for a distribution I should install? > > Btw: I own another GTA02 with Android installed on. I feel that it > reacts much faster on the screen while moving around through the > applications or menus. How they do this, as well with X11? > > Thanks > > matthias
Hi Matthias, in my opinion qtmoko is the most stable one. the only major drawback is the keyboard in my opinion, but I have seen that radek has been working on a big landscape keyboard for sms, so there may be a (early) Xmas gift from him. Regarding the keyboard I found android a bit slow (otherwise the most polished software for the freerunner with the best navit default setups). shr-core seems to be advancing quickly and has most of the "standard" linux apps one may know from one's desktop though I have the feeling the libraries are changing so quickly that very often stuff gets broken which is necessary for a daily phone. In my opinion the predictive keyboard is great though, and having that in a landscape enlarged version would be great. Regarding PIM applications I haven't found a single one which would actually allow for easy syncing with the desktop. Shuffle on android is a great getting things done app and anki flashcard learning has also got me stuck at least with one partition on android. the problem I as a very "semi-skilled" programmer have with all of the distributions is that I haven't yet found any straight forward tutorials on how to create little apps/eg front ends for command line calls or so, so developing is out of range for me. best regards robin _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community