Hi all, Recent Community Update is out! Take a look at "News" link in "Community" box on wiki pages to read it. A text version of the update is included beneath this text, but it's partially more readable, and especially clickable, in the wiki.
For your convenience here is direct link: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2010-04-01 and feel also free to contribute to the new draft at: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/Draft_2010-05-01 Thanks to all contributors of this issue of CU: * Zeusone * Faltantornillos * TimoJyrinki * Hns * Multi * Vanous * Martix * Valos * Kichkasch ps. Feel free to do this announcement yourself in the change of the next month, there is no dedicated maintainer of community updates, ie. it's all of us :) ---- Community Updates/2010-04-01 Period 2010-03-01 to 2010-03-31 ** Distributions ** Debian GNU/Linux Debian (http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian) is a universal operating system used on many other embedded devices, and also on home computers. Using Debian on the FreeRunner gives access to the Huge army of software packaged in the Debian repositories, already compiled for the Neo's arm(v4) processor. Moreover, one can build one's own source files for programs without having to learn the OpenEmbedded way. For an existing Debian/Ubuntu user, choosing Debian for Neo FreeRunner makes phone a very familiar, trustworthy and flexible place to hack in. The following new noteworthy packages have appeared in the pkg-fso repository, a staging area for FreeRunner related packages not yet in official Debian: - literki (http://pkg-fso.nomeata.de/sid/literki), keyboard with configurable layout and transparency - woosh (http://pkg-fso.nomeata.de/sid/woosh), minimalistic browser optimized for touch screens - libdrm-glamo (http://pkg-fso.nomeata.de/sid/libdrm-glamo1), userspace interface to glamo-specific kernel DRM services, more info at http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-fso-maint/2010-March/002731.html Each of the above has varying reasons they are not yet uploaded to official Debian archives. Literki included a version of png++ in its sources, and png++ has now been separated and literki will soon follow it to official Debian archives. The future of woosh browser is a bit uncertain, so it's waiting a bit eg. for a better replacement. Finally, libdrm-glamo is naturally waiting for the eventual inclusion of Glamo code in an upstream release, together with the hopeful integration of all Glamo code in upstream (Torvalds') Linux kernel. Besides applications, the following FSO components have been recently uploaded to official Debian archives: libphone-utils 0.1+git20091220-2, libgsm0710_1.2.1+git20100218-1, libfsobasics_0.9.0+git20100304-2, libfsoframework_0.2.4+git20100222-1, libfsotransport_0.9.5.9+git20100308-1, libgsm0710mux_0.9.1+git20100310-1, libfso-glib_0.2.1+git20100304-1 Codename: 'sid' Homepage: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner Image: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Debian Hardware Works Neo 1973 yes FreeRunner yes HTC-Dream yes Other yes ** Applications ** *** New Applications *** eStarDict 0.2 Offline dictionary reader made in C with Enlightenment Elementary UI Homepage: http://www.vaudano.eu/wiki/en/estardict Package: estardict Tested on: SHR-Unstable,SHR-Testing Chroneo 1.0.0 Stopwatch and Timer Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/chroneo/ Package: chroneo Tested on: SHR-Unstable *** Application Updates *** Bright Player 0.3 Quick and easy music player * bug fixes * SHR- testing compatible Homepage: http://www.faltantornillos.net/gnu/bright-player/ Package: [http://www.opkg.org/packages/brightplayer_0.3_all.ipk Bright Player 0.3] Tested on: SHR-Testing NeoLight 1.4.0 An application to turn your phone into a flashlight * Allocate "Display" resource when flashlight is active (no display blank, no suspend) Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/neolight/ Package: neolight Tested on: SHR-Testing, SHR-Unstable Podboy 1.5.0 Podboy is a podcast aggregator/player. Its interface aims to be easy and finger friendly. Main changes since version 1.3.0 are: * Played episodes that are older than a specified amount of days (defined in Settings) can be auto-deleted on every startup. * Episodes can now be tagged as "(un)deletable" in page "Episodes". All episodes with status "undeletable" will be ignored when auto-deletion of old episodes will be done on startup. * Podcasts can be renamed. * Downloads can be canceled. * Add possiblity to activate multi selection in lists (a new option is available in section "Interface" of Settings). * Lot of improvements in feed parsing (add and update). * Now, when a "Check For Updates" is done for several podcasts, a full report is displayed in a dialog. * Podcasts source URLs can be edited. Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/podboy/ Package: podboy Tested on: SHR-Testing, SHR-Unstable Quickplay A light weight mp3 player/frontend for Ampache . * add volume control * on incoming call stop playing Homepage: http://www.opkg.org/package_297.html Package: quickplay Tested on: SHR-Testing SpojeGUI SpojeGUI is GUI program which use CLI program/modul spoje.py which is used mainly for Czech and Slovak transport. * Better gui * Fix bug Homepage: http://multi.xeres.cz/programovani/spojegui Package: SpojeGUI Tested on: SHR-Testing PISI 0.5 Pisi is an application for synchronizing PIM data. Fixes for bugs from the mailing list have made it into the release. Major feature is syncml support; however, on my SHR-T this still causes seg faults due to problems with a libxml library. Homepage: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Pisi Package: pisi Tested on: SHR ** Community ** Most important and change making mails on the mailing lists, blogs etc.. Coolest hacks, screenshots, themes etc.. * Golden Delicious Computers is now also offering a Bass-Rework = Headset Audio Quality Enhancement available in EU (http://www.mail-archive.com/community@lists.openmoko.org/msg58552.html, http://freeyourphone.de/portal_v1/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1723&p=17279&hilit=bass+fix#p17251). Details can be found at: http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=Bass-Rework So they now offer professional solutions to all three most critical hardware bugs (Buzz_Fix, 1024, GTA02_bass_fix). * ”My Debian” is Timo Jyrinki's little project to help newcomers to Debian on FreeRunner to enhance their Debian experience and learn more about available software and configuration options. More on his home page at http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:TimoJyrinki * QtMoko, a Debian derivative with Qt Extended Improved manually laid on top of it, has had its FAQ (http://qtmoko.org/wiki/FAQ) started by Risto H. Kurppa. QtMoko is developed by Radek Polak. Event News * Openmobility conference will be on 2010-04-24 in Zlin, CZ. * Openmoko Stammtisch München, Germany "2010-04-12" 19:00 at "Die Wildsau, Balanstraße 121" (see http://freeyourphone.de/portal_v1/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=1744&p=17363&hilit=stammtisch+april for changes) _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community