On Saturday, November 10, 2012 09:42:01 PM Harry Prevor wrote: > I just aquired a Freerunner, and after checking out the list of > distributions on the wiki I've narrowed it down to Debian and QtMoko. > I'm leaning toward QtMoko but I'm unsure about a few things: > > 1. What are the advantages to using QTMoko over Debian on a Freerunner?
If you are using QtMoko you are also using debian. QtMoko is just one package. Like KDE or gnome. You can run QtMoko also on top of other rootfs - like in open embedded, Fedora, OpenWrt - whatever. > 2. I like that it is built for touch by default in QtMoko but would > also like to fall back to a desktop-like environment when needed (i.e. > something like Openbox that isn't optimized for touch); this is > possible, no? Yes, there is QX program - it launches X server optionally with matchbox windows manager. > 3. Does QTMoko offer all the software in the Debian repositories? Yes, but for X server applications you need to use QX to run them. > 4. Can I install a different window manager than the default one if wanted? QtMoko run on top of framebuffer - it's not using X server. For applications ran in QX you can use whatever window manager you like. For native QtMoko you cant change it. > 5. Are there any glaring software limitations regarding the Freerunner > that QtMoko has that Debian doesn't? No, you can install all debian packages since qtmoko rootfs is debian. > 6. They both use the same kernel, right? There is no kernel for Freerunner in debian repos. So you have to use self compiled kernel. > 7. From what I've seen it seems like QtMoko is being more actively > developed than Debian on the Freerunner currently; is this true? I am doing release tarballs like every two months. Most of the work goes to qtmoko package so Debian on freerunner project does not need to do release that often. > 8. If I prefer the debian-unstable packages can I use that repository on > QtMoko? 9. If I were to upgrade to a GTA04 at some point, would the > transition be any easier on one distribution than the other? You can upgrade the rootfs to testing/unstable and it will most likely work. But i cant guarantee that it will always work. It's moving target. > 10. Is either distribution more thouroughly tested with the GTA04 than > the other? QtMoko now runs nearly perfectly on GTA04. There is problem with ringtones sound which i am now working on. Then GTA04 support will be same good as it's on Freerunner. Regards Radek _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community