Re: Plans for Open HardSoftware Event in Germany

2010-07-07 Thread Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
The organizer of the opinion poll has told that there are already 27 responses. Since the poll will be closed tomorrow evening, please hurry up to state your preferences and wishes as described below. Everyone from every country is welcome, but language will be German. Therefore I expect the

Re: Pisi won't synchronize.

2010-07-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Cool, thank you very much! :) Em 06-07-2010 21:28, Michael Pilgermann escreveu: Hi Rui, I fixed this - type PREF is now ignored. Your test is going through well. Fix is in the git repos already; will be coming with next PISI release (0.5.4). Best Michael I have a couple of

[ANN][CU] 2010-07-01 released!

2010-07-07 Thread Patryk Benderz
Hello everybody, recent Community Update is out. Take a look at News link in Community box on the left pane of wiki pages to read, or use direct link below: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2010-02-10 From now, contribute to the new draft at:

Re: [Shr-User] [ANN][CU] 2010-07-01 released!

2010-07-07 Thread Martin Jansa
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 04:18:31PM +0200, Patryk Benderz wrote: Hello everybody, recent Community Update is out. Take a look at News link in Community box on the left pane of wiki pages to read, or use direct link below: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2010-02-10

Re: [Shr-User] [ANN][CU] 2010-07-01 released!

2010-07-07 Thread Patryk Benderz
Dnia 2010-07-07, śro o godzinie 16:18 +0200, Patryk Benderz pisze: Hello everybody, recent Community Update is out. Take a look at News link in Community box on the left pane of wiki pages to read, or use direct link below: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2010-02-10 Of course,

My N900 experience compared to my FR experience (was: Re: [QtMoko] handset is (almost) unusable for voice calls with background noise)

2010-07-07 Thread Brolin Empey
Brolin Empey wrote: Anyway, I finally ordered a Nokia N900 from NewEgg.ca on Sunday. I expect the N900 to be more usable as a handset than my FR. Nokia released the N900 without USB Host support to meet deadlines because they could not have it certified for USB Host without fully working USB

Re: My N900 experience compared to my FR experience (was: Re: [QtMoko] handset is (almost) unusable for voice calls with background noise)

2010-07-07 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2010/7/7 Brolin Empey bro...@brolin.be: I know the N900’s kernel is relatively old (2.6.28.x) and the N900 is less open than the FR, but this does not matter to me because it is an acceptable compromise in order to have a far better experience with a more powerful and current device. Sure, a

Re: My N900 experience compared to my FR experience (was: Re: [QtMoko] handset is (almost) unusable for voice calls with background noise)

2010-07-07 Thread Petr Vanek
On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 22:45:05 +0300 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com (TJ) wrote: FreeRunner is a bit like an old (classic) car - you know it will need great care, you know it's not the fastest four-wheel on the block, but damn it's elegant when you've yourself made it go so smoothly and know how

Re: My N900 experience compared to my FR experience (was: Re: [QtMoko] handset is (almost) unusable for voice calls with background noise)

2010-07-07 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2010/7/7 Brolin Empey bro...@brolin.be: I know the N900’s kernel is relatively old (2.6.28.x) and the N900 is less open than the FR, but this does not matter to me because it is an acceptable compromise in order to have a far better experience with a more powerful and current device. Thanks

Re: My N900 experience compared to my FR experience (was: Re: [QtMoko] handset is (almost) unusable for voice calls with background noise)

2010-07-07 Thread Sebastian Reichel
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 10:05:25PM +0200, Petr Vanek wrote: On Wed, 7 Jul 2010 22:45:05 +0300 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com (TJ) wrote: FreeRunner is a bit like an old (classic) car - you know it will need great care, you know it's not the fastest four-wheel on the block, but damn

Re: My N900 experience compared to my FR experience (was: Re: [QtMoko] handset is (almost) unusable for voice calls with background noise)

2010-07-07 Thread Sebastian Reichel
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 10:12:31PM +0200, Michal Brzozowski wrote: 2010/7/7 Brolin Empey bro...@brolin.be: I know the N900’s kernel is relatively old (2.6.28.x) and the N900 is less open than the FR, but this does not matter to me because it is an acceptable compromise in order to have a

Re: My N900 experience compared to my FR experience (was: Re: [QtMoko] handset is (almost) unusable for voice calls with background noise)

2010-07-07 Thread arne anka
I'd like to hear how the N900 compares to the FR in hackability. Like replacing pieces of software, like keyboard, window manager, etc. I wasn't able to find much information about this. It seems there is only one distribution that fully works on the N900, which is quite worrying.

Re: My N900 experience compared to my FR experience (was: Re: [QtMoko] handset is (almost) unusable for voice calls with background noise)

2010-07-07 Thread Michal Brzozowski
2010/7/7 Sebastian Reichel elektra...@gmail.com: You may be interested in this: https://elektranox.org/website/debian_on_n900.html Cool! What we need now is just FSO on the n900 :-) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: My N900 experience compared to my FR experience (was: Re: [QtMoko] handset is (almost) unusable for voice calls with background noise)

2010-07-07 Thread Timo Jyrinki
2010/7/7 Sebastian Reichel elektra...@gmail.com: https://elektranox.org/website/debian_on_n900.html Thanks for your great work with Debian on N900. I do look forward to 2011 or 2012 to eventually do a switch from FreeRunner, and N900 is one (and currently best) possibility. It wouldn't hurt,

Re: My N900 experience compared to my FR experience

2010-07-07 Thread pike
Hi It wouldn't hurt, though, if some truly (with some definition near FR's definition or better) open phone would come out by then. has anyone looked at the geeksphone yet ? http://forum.geeksphone.com/index.php/topic,891.0.html I'm assuming all the hardware is 'open' .. I know nothing

Re: My N900 experience compared to my FR experience

2010-07-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 07-07-2010 20:27, Brolin Empey escreveu: I know the N900’s kernel is relatively old (2.6.28.x) and the N900 is less open than the FR, but this does not matter to me because it is an acceptable compromise in order to have a far better experience with a more powerful and current device.