Re: Hello Maemo - CFSONID 2008

2008-06-04 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, ext Paul Bloch wrote: One thing that comes to mind in terms of augmenting Maemo and making it a more robust system is whether it's possible to consolidate efforts being made by other groups such as the Ubuntu mobile project (I can't recall the name of this effort), and perhaps the efforts

maemo-mapper query

2008-06-04 Thread jitender singh
Hi, I am struggling , how tiles are indexed in maemo-mapper(exellent application ). Can someone please tell me how map tiles are downloaded,and indexed in database Thanks in advance ___ maemo-developers mailing list

Re: Memory card recognization issue in OS2008

2008-06-04 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Dr. Nicholas Shaw wrote: A quick follow-up. The issue with x-term and mail is also happening now with application manager. I uninstalled a program and then tried installing the camera. Application manager just stopped working and I'm going to have to restart the device to get rid

Re: policy: maemo packaging policy -draft

2008-06-04 Thread Quim Gil
ext Guillem Jover wrote: Porting software should not be needed most of the time, and maemo would be better off pulling directly from the Debian armel archives. This is a separate discussion, but it would be good to go through specific cases of different packages in Debian and Ubuntu and see

Re: Hello Maemo - CFSONID 2008

2008-06-04 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi. Marius Gedminas schrieb: If you attended the first talk I was the guy asking to raise your hand if you want to see the Nokia IT devices being freed of all proprietary software in one way (install a different OS) or another (make IT OS 100% free itself). I was one of those who raised

Re: Where did the name Maemo come from?

2008-06-04 Thread Tuomas Kulve
Paul Bloch wrote: Today I was wondering, what is a maemo? Just wondering what the origins of the name are, anyone know what a Maemo is? Maemo is a name from a name generator. -- Tuomas signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___

Where did the name Maemo come from?

2008-06-04 Thread Paul Bloch
Today I was wondering, what is a maemo? Just wondering what the origins of the name are, anyone know what a Maemo is? Cheers, Paul ___ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers

Re: Hello Maemo - CFSONID 2008

2008-06-04 Thread Robert Schuster
Hi. Quim Gil schrieb: The campaign proposal is interesting. I wonder if Nokia is the main target, though. Sure, Nokia is one of the targets but perhaps it's the own community of developers who could make a change. Or did the Linux open source communities wait for IBM, Intel, HP and so on to

Re: Hello Maemo - CFSONID 2008

2008-06-04 Thread Quim Gil
ext Robert Schuster wrote: If I'm not confused about the terms, Maemo already consists of only the open-source parts. The software that comes on a Nokia IT is called the Internet Tablet Operating System, and it is based on Maemo with a lot of non-free parts added at various levels of the

Re: Where did the name Maemo come from?

2008-06-04 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:49:57PM +0300, Tuomas Kulve wrote: Paul Bloch wrote: Today I was wondering, what is a maemo? Just wondering what the origins of the name are, anyone know what a Maemo is? Maemo is a name from a name generator. IIRC the generator was 'pwgen'. Marius Gedminas --

Re: Hello Maemo - CFSONID 2008

2008-06-04 Thread Quim Gil
ext Robert Schuster wrote: Now the funny thing: Recently people found out that building something on top of what GNU provides can make up a successful business. But instead of following the idea that brought GNU into existance they add proprietary software again. This is a binary analysis.

Re: Hello Maemo - CFSONID 2008

2008-06-04 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:23:15PM +0200, Robert Schuster wrote: So the answer is no. As long as Maemo's goal is not 'providing a 100% free platform' as well I[0] will not contribute[1] to it and I expect that with more and more freedom respecting projects/products you will have a hard time

RE: Hello Maemo - CFSONID 2008

2008-06-04 Thread Simon Pickering
So the answer is no. As long as Maemo's goal is not 'providing a 100% free platform' as well I[0] will not contribute[1] to it and I expect that with more and more freedom respecting projects/products you will have a hard time finding people who do. This is what I had in mind in my

Re: Hello Maemo - CFSONID 2008

2008-06-04 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Robert Schuster wrote: Now the funny thing: Recently people found out that building something on top of what GNU provides can make up a successful business. But instead of following the idea that brought GNU into existance they add proprietary software again. Nokia has contributed to

Re: Hello Maemo - CFSONID 2008

2008-06-04 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Robert Schuster wrote: So the answer is no. As long as Maemo's goal is not 'providing a 100% free platform' as well I[0] will not contribute[1] to it There is difference between Nokia and Maemo here. It may not be be goal for Nokia as a company (no matter what is our opinion on this) but it

Re: Hello Maemo - CFSONID 2008

2008-06-04 Thread Allen Brown
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:23:15PM +0200, Robert Schuster wrote: So the answer is no. As long as Maemo's goal is not 'providing a 100% free platform' as well I[0] will not contribute[1] to it and I expect that with more and more freedom respecting projects/products you will have a hard time

Re: Hello Maemo - CFSONID 2008

2008-06-04 Thread Ian Lawrence
proprietary and open source components (Ubuntu (is Launchpad finally open?), Novell, IBM etc), it's not either or. It is in the In Progress queue apparently https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/50699/comments/10 and likely to be released Affero licensed. To me launchpad.net is kind of

GStreamer and ogg on N800

2008-06-04 Thread Jeffrey Barish
I followed the directions at http://ogg.garage.maemo.org/ to install ogg support for GStreamer. Success. Thanks for the very helpful package! One problem, though: Although my application now runs on the N800 and produces sound, the loudness of the sound is low. When I play the same soundfile

maemo Bug Jar #7

2008-06-04 Thread Stephen Gadsby
A Quick Look at maemo Bugzilla 2008.05.29 through 2008.06.04 As of 2008.06.04 maemo Bugzilla contains 3166 (+22 this week) items, including 1152 open issues (-40 this week): * 783 open bugs (-43 this week) * 9 critical/blocker (-3 this week) * 22 moreinfo (+4 this week) *