Gothnet wrote: > As a newcomer to the Openmoko scene, I've started to notice that there are a > lot of different firmwares out there, some from Openmoko and some from other > places. > > I'm a C programmer by trade with almost a decade of commercial experience, > mostly in server/backend stuff. I want to start looking at Openmoko and the > FreeRunner but I'm now not sure which frameworks, firmwares and library > sets I ought to be looking at. > > What's the "stable" openmoko distribution? > Should I start working against Qtopia as it's got a wider device base and > (probably) a larger community? > > I must admit I like the idea of making debian workable, but from the > distributions page that looks like it has a long way to go before I'd get a > workable phone out of it. > > What's the state of play guys? > From my (little) experience it seems that Qtopia is by far the most usable (as a phone), and I would say for general end-user (if you can even find just average end-users yet!) they are using Qtopia. 2007.2 mostly seems to house developers, and I see a lot more power and potential from the 2007.2 framework, but personally I think Qtopia is the most stable.
It looks like future frameworks are heading towards the ASU or FSO? I'm not really sure, although ASU seems to be a "merge" of 2007.2 and Qtopia, so perhaps that direction is what you're looking for? _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community