On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 07:58:08AM +0000, da...@matthews.pm wrote: > The real problem with the freerunner as a libre phone is as Mychaela says, it > is neither fish nor meat - way more complex and power hungry than a dumb > phone and way behind the capabilities of even a 5 year old Samsung with a > replacement firmware.
I think that's not as big of an issue with a phone that runs an "alternative" mobile OS, since you can choose to run applications that don't require much hardware power. If one were running a more mainstream mobile OS, that would be much more of a problem. > If you did want to pick up the baton with developing the linux side (or > baseband!) of the freerunner, I'd would be interested, but I doubt that I'd > be able to help much apart from testing. That's fair; thanks for the offer! It's not in my short-term plan right now, but I'll let you know if/when I do start on something. > For the linux side, the last releases of Qtmoko would probably be the best > starting point, but even these suffered from what I understand to be a faulty > kernel - expect to find your phone has crashed at least once a day, even if > you reboot it regularly. This distribution was pretty much a one man effort, > by a very helpful guy - you might be able to stimulate him to take an > interest again. Which guy was this? In case I do end up going in this direction, I just want to confirm who I should reach out to. Denver http://soprani.ca/ _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community@freecalypso.org https://www.freecalypso.org/mailman/listinfo/community
