2009/12/17 Al Johnson <openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk> > On Thursday 17 December 2009, Brolin Empey wrote: > > 2009/12/16 Al Johnson <openm...@mazikeen.demon.co.uk> > > > > > On Thursday 17 December 2009, Brolin Empey wrote: > > FreeRunner, Om2009 (completely unusable because the GUI kept becoming > > unresponsive), SHR-U (version 080808 or 090808? I can find out which > > version I tried when I am home tonight. > > That's a long way out of date! >
It was the current release when I tried it in 2009-08, soon after I got my FreeRunner. > > > > I had the base or tiny version of > > SHR (I forgot what it was called, but I can find out when I am at home > > tonight.), which had very few apps, but I could not upgrade to the full > > version because I did not have a usable ssh connection.), and finally > > QtMoko, which still has issues but is by far the most usable distro I > have > > tried. I could try SHR again, but my first impression of SHR was very > > poor because I do not understand how they could release such a broken > > image. > > shr-unstable is just that, and breakages happen. The images are just > nightly > builds that have nominally succeeded, not a release that's supposed to be > bug- > free. The recently released shr-testing is intended to avoid the sort of > failures you can get in unstable, but it takes a little while for bug fixes > to > trickle down from unstable. > I was expecting SHR-unstable to be like Debian Linux unstable, which is actually not unstable in the sense of having lots of breakage. I thought the image I tried was recommended because it was supposed to work well (had been tested), but I could be wrong. I should have asked if there was a better (less broken) image I could have tried. > > > If I try another distro, it has to be able to install to and run > > from a MicroSD(HC) card because I need to keep my working QtMoko > > installation in my onboard NAND. > > I'm running shr-u (among others) from uSD. Just make an ext3 filesystem on > a > spare partition and untar the tar.gz image to it. I assume you know how to > multiboot already... > I have not multibooted my FreeRunner because so far I have run only 1 distro at a time from the onboard NAND, but I can probably figure out how to multiboot because I have multibooted PCs + my iPod + maybe some other devices I am forgetting. :)
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