2008/12/24 Nathan Kinkade <[email protected]>: > 2008/12/24 Nikita V. Youshchenko <[email protected]>: >>> the pkg-e team is currently low on man-power (only Albin Tonnerre seems >>> to do some work currently). I have heard that he is mostly ready with >>> packages for a new e17, including Illume. Once this is done, he want's >>> to tackle to libries (libetk and libelementary, if I'm not mistaken) >>> that are used by SHR. >>> >>> So I think helping out the pkg-e team will be most beneficial to getting >>> Illume and the rest of SHR into Debian. I've CC'ed their mailing list. >>> Albin, can you hand out some tasks that other can do to help you? >> >> I'm a Debian Developer and I'm willing to help with Debian on Freerunner. >> I have one myself - and I see that current state of Debian there is poor :( >> >> Unfortunately I'm very limited in time :(. >> However if somebody will feed me with particular not-very-large TODO items, >> it may work :). >> >> Nikita > > Hi Nikita, > > From my experience, Debian runs quite nicely on the Freerunner, but is > not very finger-friendly, which is somewhat important, I think, for a > device that is also a phone, has no builtin stylus, and will be used > on the go a lot. > > According to Joachim, the main holdup to packaging the SHR apps for > the Freerunner are some Enlightenment packages. He pointed me over to > the [email protected] list where I and another > person asked how we could help. Maybe you could post a follow up on > that same thread > (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-e-devel/2008-December/000276.html)? > > If you haven't tried the SHR distribution, then I think you'll like > it. They have done some very good work and it's based on FSO. Debian > + Illume + SHR apps would make a very nice mobile device that is also > a regular Debian system. > > Thanks! > > Nathan
Oops. I sent the above message yesterday afternoon, but I carelessly didn't Reply To All, so it only went to Nikita. Just wanted to send this to the list so that there is a full archive of the conversation. Nathan _______________________________________________ Smartphones-userland mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland
