Hello. On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 05:17, Jeff Rush wrote: > "Freesmartphone.org is going out of the distro business. We will > focus on the framework itself and will rely on SHR for building > a real distro and GUI around it."
That was me. So let's explain it a bit more. > I got the above comment on a bug report I just filed and while I've > heard it mentioned, I don't understand the ramifications. > > 1. How will FSO -test- their stuff during development prior to a > distro picking up the release? Don't they need a vanilla > distro for their own testing purposes? Why would we need that? At the moment Daniel and me are using SHR unstable as daily phone. That gives the framework a lot testing. We are also testing newer versions of the framework or the new fso-abyss muxer within SHR on these phones. So far this is working very well and we are happy that we can join forces with the SHR guys on this topic. Way to much time and energy was spent on creating images, feeds and other distro things while we could have spent this on the framework itself. > 2. If not FSO, where can I get a vanilla distro that -excludes- > most of the GUI apps and let's me install just that which I > want to use? > > I've been using the FSO distro because it lets me start with a solid > kernel + basic services and build up an environment just the way I want. > The other distros I've looked at bundle too much and make assumptions > about the phone UI and PIM data storage that get in the way of operation. That is a valid point. We targetted this one with our console and illume images in the fso builds. As these both images are only a subset of the the bigger shr images they should be easy to provide. I will talk to the SHR guys if it would be possible to build these when they are building the others. That way you could take a smaller image with the stuff you like and put on top what you want. How does that sound to you? regards Stefan Schmidt _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
