I don't need a new mobile phone. So the answer is no for me.
I recently wondered about buying a Freerunner because I wanted a portable
audio player. But there is a problem playing audio on the freerunner. And it
also seems too weak to play videos. So, I stuck with the Unix way (one old
What kind of issues?
The real question is does it work well enough to utilise. Little issues may
not be that big a deal. Particularly if we can document issues and clarify
what features are supported, what is being worked on, and what might never
get supported.
Just because every feature
I think there are probably a lot of people like yourself.
The last I used the freerunner it made a very very very poor phone. It was
mainly because you couldn't hear people well enough and/or they couldn't hear
you. I would not advise buying one unless you were seriously going to work on
Thanks for the link. It looks like a more dire situation than I thought. I
still think the idea is good though. If we didn't all already have these I
might think otherwise. The problem is we do already have these and people do
need to replace broken phones. The question is are they going to
I was thinking about designing such a portable Free Software device, but from
scratch. I'm not really sure about the OS, though Maemo looks like a nice
choice, better than Replicant IMHO. The target board to use is
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/ but it hasn't started shipping yet. I
I'm interested in such a phone. I use an old mobile phone right now which
I'll give to my parents eventually and it would be awesome to have a
free-software friendly smartphone. If it will really cost below $150 and work
with German telephony providers I'd buy that.
How about Boot 2 Gecko? Since Mozilla is behind this OS, I hope it will be
as free as possible... but I could not find any information regarding the
drivers/firmware.
Maybe ThinkPenguin would like to be among the first companies to ship those
phones at an international scale (the first B2G
The Freerunner should work well as a phone if you perform all the hardware
fixes (e.g. Buzz fix, Echo fix, Deep Sleep, Bass Rework). Then the phone is
at least somewhat attractive (you should get at least 4-5 days of battery
life for making and receiving calls). Decent audio state files
I have a Gigabyte motherboard with integrated AMD/ATI Radeon HD 4200:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128394
And I'm using a Phenom II X6 1055T 2.8 GHz CPU with 8GB of DDR3:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103851
With Trisquel 5.0 (and now 5.5),
I use a desktop computer with only 256 MB RAM using essentially only
X-Windows, fvwm, xterm, xpdf and firefox as graphics software. Since I
prefer the command line, this works well with Trisquel GNU/Linux
4.01. As a software developer I don't need much graphics software.
I'm really grateful for
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 5:53 AM, ch...@thinkpenguin.com wrote:
I've been thinking about what projects and products we could put out that
might be both worthy to take on and draw in new money.
If we looked into it further would you spend $200 USD on a phone (excluding
VAT) that excluded as
I noticed similar end behavior (shutdown not completing) when using Trisquel
5.5 on my Gateway LT4004u. I don't know that machine's specs off of the top
of my head, but I will post them later tonight.
I will also try to track down what is causing this behaviour for me and post
that as well.
Umm here are some of the issues I have
* Battery life (may be because I got the phone used)
* No wifi (requires non-free software)
* If I lose coverage I have to restart the phone to re-enable coverage
* Sometimes phone hangs on reboots
* over the air internet connection drops out often
In a smart phone, any of these issues would be a deal breaker for me.
Looks like I'd have to sacrifice a little freedom if I were to start
using one of these things.
-Dave
On 07/03/2012 11:08 AM, sirgr...@member.fsf.org wrote:
* Battery life (may be because I got the phone used)
* No
Does this work for you guys? http://www.rrhistorical.com/rrdata/Fcpro65/
I used to have similar issue.
Whoa dude you must have something weird going on with your system because
that page (rrhistorical) is not at all what he linked. He linked to a
trisquel bug page.
http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Main_Page
Qi Hardware is sharing hardware.
We document all steps necessary to build hardware so anyone may join us or
reproduce our hardware.
The ultimate goals are:
to bring people together to share
to fully document our hardware platform
to
I own a Ben NanoNote.
My fuckup, that's the link I originally erroneously pasted.
Sorry for the hassle.
So, what's the skinny? Does it do your laundry?
On 07/03/2012 12:01 PM, sirgr...@member.fsf.org wrote:
Whoa dude you must have something weird going on with your system
because that page (rrhistorical) is not at all what he linked. He
linked to a trisquel bug page.
I'm seeing this thread and responding to it on the email list, not the
That makes sense. I thought you were getting man in the middle attacked or
something.
LOL! Well, that's not to say I'm not. :-) But, probably less likely
that I am. :-)
Best regards,
Rick C. Hodgin
On 07/03/2012 02:14 PM, sirgr...@member.fsf.org wrote:
That makes sense. I thought you were getting man in the middle
attacked or something.
I just read the article about Firefox OS phones being launched in Brazil.
This seems like a nice thing, although I doubt any of those phones will be as
Freedom friendly as we need. Most common issues might be regarding drivers
for the GSM modem and WiFi chip. Though I believ it would be
After downloading the iso, the md5checksums matched.
A dialog asked whether I want to Continue the installation or Quit. I clicked
Continue and the installation continued, but did not at any point ask on
which partition I wanted to install Trisquel.
I already have Pinguy OS and Windows 7
Yes, true...it is GNU/Linux.
But in the end I think it is more important that I spent my little one a PC
with a free GNU/Linux OS on it for playing her favorite MP3 files rather than
a Windows 7 box, right ?
I think for a standard vanilla Trisquel 5.5 2GB of RAM are mandatory. The
Shure, for basic things at console level may be even 128 MB will be fine but
if you install Vanilla Trisquel 5.5 with Gnome 3 2D fallback, you will
experience massive slowdowns with 1 GB of RAM, trust me...
With 1GB GNU/Linux can become unstable depending on the desktop environment,
software running it, etc. Unity/Gnome are both pushing it and swapping is
occurring with 1GB of ram. You are definitely not able to take full advantage
of the system with 1GB of ram any more.
That said until
Something nobody ever seems to keep in mind when chatting about this topic is
the target user one is talking about. When you start talking about this kind
of stuff the user is key. The user and the software make a huge difference.
For a developer that likes the terminal it is certainly
You could use Trisquel mini.
That is interesting. I wish I had a working phone to try. I never did attempt
the buzz fix and it was an issue at the time. The other problem with the
freerunner is price/availability. As far as I'm aware you can't get this any
more. There is a newer version although it's only the
The one issue with the newer phones is the PowerVR. There are many others. If
we could design a phone in the $150 price range I think it would work. If you
move forward with a project to design a free software friendly phone let me
know.
I think some of the ideals for such a project should
I don't think there would be an issue with it working in Germany. However at
$150 USD it is unlikely to generate much profits. It might be possible to get
the cost down to around $100 USD. The problem is even that really wouldn't
generate that terribly much. I think the prices keep dropping
This is what I mean by demand. I don't think it is a good idea to encourage
people to buy phones with non-free software or any phone if ones doesn't have
one already. Although for those of us who are already stuck getting such
phones it makes sense to shoot for furthering the projects
Is there a way where I can have two monitors have different backgrounds in
Trisquel?
I can't wait to see how 6.0 turns out. Not only is it a 5 year LTS version,
but Ruben and crew will have had more time to tweak the Gnome 3 codebase. 5.5
felt like I was using beta software and 6.0 should benefit from a later
version of Gnome and Canonical's contributions to their 12.04
Install nitrogen. It works.
Search nitrogen in Synaptic or via Terminal.
sudo apt-get install nitrogen
then you open it with Alt+F2 or Terminal: nitrogen and add the images
directories in preferences.
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