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1.5 years after initial installation, the Linux on Smartphones project actually starts. See http://freesmartphone.org for the first two subprojects we will host, the Open Telephony Server and the Open Device Daemon. Good Speed!!!

The V0.2 release contains a binary package for Maemo Bora as well - please test and report issues.

The LTG site now hosts git repos! The git repositories can be browsed on the web at: http://linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi And, of course, by using git: git clone git://linuxtogo.org/home/ <project path> All LTG projects can setup a git repository if they wish.

The lbsdebug tool (in the tools/ subdirectory) allows one to easily toggle the various debug flags of the libertas driver.

I'm glad to announce a very late new release of gpe-sudoku, the popular Japanese "math" game. The code was left alone for a very long period, I have to thank Florian Boor for softly pushing me to include a patch he authored a long time ago. In these days I applied his patch (which mainly concerns a better GPE support) and added the following features: 1) Support for Maemo Chinook (tested on os2008) 2) Fixed cells generated via "generate puzzle" are now colored in red 3) gpe-sudoku asks for confirmation when trying to overwrite a modified worksheet or when quitting.

Today the driver reached a milestone by being able to associate to an AccessPoint. After this, I could ping in and out via the CF card and use SSH. So, the raw functionality is there, now comes the fine-tuning :-)

OpieII is now know as OpenPalmtopIntegratedEnvironmentII for the following reasons: From handhelds.org: "The legal folks wanted me to remind you that opie is a tradname: http://handhelds.org/legal and that opie2 infringes upon it. Please do not use the tradename on the linuxtogo site or any other site. "

Jan Herman (aka 72ka) did some hard work on the core kernel development not just fixing it for the new 2.6.20 version, but delivering - power management support - battery support - support for the common WM97XX driver - several cleanups and bug fixes Thanx for your work, Jan. As always the code is available at H&D's subversion repository.

Hello Everybody! I want to introduce our project having the goal to build a fully Community based handheld device. We called it N.E.R.D. (Network Enabled Resourceful Device). After a lot of discussions and design work we have a device that is even capable of GSM and GPS so we renamed it to NERD'o'Fon. We are at the moment 3 developers all located in Austria and working for the same company which makes communication for our private project much easier. At the current stage we are near to finishing the hardware design and are hopefully ready to build a first prototype soon. Ther are still some issues to solve, but we think there is nothing very tricky left to deal with. The key features of the device: Cirrus Logic ARM920T-based EP9315 microcontroller at 200MHz 64 MB SDRAM 1MB boot flash, typically for U-Boot boot loader Up to 512MB of storage flash via a on-board xD card 3x USB 2.0 Host 1x USB 2.0 Client Navigation via a wheel, 8-way navigator, additional side navigator and toch screen GSM speech and data (with GPRS) functionality connected via RS232 GPS NMEA functionality connected via RS232 IRDA port 1x Ethernet (100MBit) 1x Audio In/Out/HeadOut, Microphone 1x CF-Card 1x Docking Station Interface LiPoly battery (2000mAh) ATMEGA controller for battery charge control, supervision and power management If you want to join us, feel free to contact us. Any help gladly appreciated, hardware know-how, software skills and of cource good ideas! regards Markus, Martin and Mike

The VMWare demo image to take a look at GPE Phone Edition is now available from the project files download section. You can use it to get an impression about how the applications look like and how they are intended to be used. In theory you should be able to use a serial connected GSM modem on your host PC which the VMWare expects at /dev/GSM-Modem - we did not have time for testing - please report problems. To power down the virtual machine you can select "Quit" from the menu. Enjoy

GPE running on several hardware platforms.

Screenshots of 'normal' apps running under the GPE platform

Just committed shader support to clutter-gst. When your card supports it and gstreamer decides it's the format to use (often it picks rgb over yuv, I've no idea why this is), YUV decoding will now be handled by a pixel shader instead of the CPU. This should give a reasonable boost when it gets used (in terms of CPU use).

Even more interesting in my eyes, is the YV12 shader I've also committed. Normally YV12 hardware-assisted decoding would be done with 8-bit textures and multi-texturing. This is also the sensible way to do it, mind, and I do realise that... But also committed, is a YV12 shader that will decode YV12 uploaded into a 24-bit rgb texture. I've not seen a shader that does this before, probably because it's an insane thing to do, but if you build clutter-gst with USE_YV12_SHADER defined, YV12 decoding will be handled by the graphics card, using a single rgb texture. Note that this shader is completely untuned, however, and very experimental.

The win here is that not only are you offloading a lot of work from the CPU (most videos tend to be stored in YV12 format), but you're also halving the texture upload (YV12 has quarter-resolution chroma). I imagine I'll get back to this after guadec and implement it in the correct way. Patches welcome of course.

The last few weeks I have been working on a python applets manager for OpenMoko cell phone.

The idea is to be able to very easily develop applications in python. Each application can define a set of services and request for a given services. So if for example I write a text editor, other applications that need a text text editor will be able to use it, even if they don't know about this particular text editor.

The code can be downloaded from the subversion server :

svn checkout svn://svn.projects.openmoko.org/svnroot/tichy

It can work directly on a desktop computer, or on the open moko (See the README file for more informations)

It uses Mickey freesmartphone Framework

Here are some screen shots :

????????????????????? Openmoko ????????????? Neo FreeRunner ??????Openmoko ?????????????? [Openmoko Declares Independence for the Mobile Phone]???????????? Neo FreeRunner ??????? Openmoko ??????????????????Openmoko ?????????????????????????????????

????? Neo1973 ???????Openmoko ????????????????????????????????????? Neo FreeRunner?

???? Openmoko ??????? Neo1973 ?????????????????????????????????????????? Android????????????????? iPhone????????????????????

Openmoko ??

?????Openmoko ???????????????????????????????????????????????????? Openmoko ?????????????? Openmoko ????? Neo ???????? CC ???????????????????????????????????

Openmoko ???????????????? Openmoko ?????????? Openmoko ????????????? [University] ????Openmoko ??????????????????????????? Openmoko ???? Openmoko ??????????? Openmoko ????????????????????????? Neo ???????????????????????????????????????????????

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