Re: distribution choice

2008-09-16 Thread Cédric Berger
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 20:41, Kevin Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are debating between Om 2007.2 and Om 2008.8. Which release is more stable? 2007.2 or 2008.8, in regards to the Freerunner. 2007.2 is not supported anymore ___ Openmoko

distribution choice

2008-09-15 Thread Kevin Dixon
Hi all, My company is planning to roll out a suite of applications to be ran on the openmoko/freerunner platform. I'm researching which distribution would be best for our needs. We are not so concerned with the current state of available applications, since we will be writing out own. So here

Re: distribution choice

2008-09-15 Thread Warren Baird
Hi Kevin, In terms of java support, I've experimented using a large and quite complicated commercial java application on my freerunner, and it ran surprisingly well - there were a few problems in some encryption code, but the rest was pretty good. However, the performance was not fantastic.

Re: distribution choice

2008-09-15 Thread Daniel Benoy
You should be able to make software that runs on all the distributions, because they have X11 in common. If it can run on a Linux X11 PC with one mouse button and at 480x640, it should be able to run on any distribution in the forseeable future. The rub comes when you plan to do something

Re: distribution choice

2008-09-15 Thread Neil Jerram
Hi, just one query on this: 2008/9/15 Daniel Benoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You should be able to make software that runs on all the distributions, because they have X11 in common. If it can run on a Linux X11 PC with one mouse button and at 480x640, it should be able to run on any distribution

Re: distribution choice

2008-09-15 Thread nickd
It was recently modified so it can also run over X11 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/QtopiaOnX11 http://trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/x11 -Nick Neil Jerram wrote: I think I read somewhere that Qtopia doesn't use X11, and instead writes direct to the framebuffer - which I think would make

Re: distribution choice

2008-09-15 Thread Nicola Mfb
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:49 AM, nickd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was recently modified so it can also run over X11 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/QtopiaOnX11 http://trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/x11 -Nick What' is the future of Qtopia and QtopiaOnX11? The problem is not only