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Forum: Alternatives 2010-11-18, 08:33
Replies: 76
Views: 45,019
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: Stable Hybrid Release - SHR OS on N900

Cornucopia:

http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=cornucopia.git;a=summary

Openembedded tree (guessing developing goes there until pushing upstream but not sure):
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Forum: Alternatives 2010-11-16, 09:04
Replies: 76
Views: 45,019
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: Stable Hybrid Release - SHR OS on N900

SHR unstable is a "live" distro and is built from upstream continuosly, so the best way to follow the development is to read commit logs.
The important part is the isimodem support in the FSO...
Forum: Competitors 2010-11-13, 10:57
Replies: 13
Views: 4,526
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: Any other gnu/linux phones?

Short answers are not good ;).

Every phone running a good linux kernel with a GSM module supported by FSO or oFono is able to run debian (or any other standard userland OS) with a free telephony...
Forum: Ubuntu 2010-11-09, 14:45
Replies: 494
Views: 211,378
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: [WIP] Ubuntu 9.10 on the N900

Meego has reference apps to place phone calls, sms, and so on and IIRC there is a project to debianize meego apps.

Another way may be try porting neoPhysis apps, and emh..., that should be easy as...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-11-06, 12:41
Replies: 117
Views: 53,337
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: U-boot is now in extras-devel

Just quick tryied to boot nitdroid with u-boot:

* rebuilt head nitdroid 2.6.28 06 kernel in scratchbox adding MMC and ext2/3/4 support
* copied lib/modules, lib/firmware and /dev from maemo in...
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-11-06, 03:38
Replies: 117
Views: 53,337
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: U-boot is now in extras-devel

If you switch the OS with multiboot you'll reflash the kernel and lose u-boot. There are other issue too such continuous reflashing and support only for Linux OS and kernels able to mount the nand...
Forum: Ubuntu 2010-11-05, 21:14
Replies: 494
Views: 211,378
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: [WIP] Ubuntu 9.10 on the N900

Yes! but I think that both kernels see them in the same manner, cannot confirm and check now, please verify with cat /proc/partitions under freemantle.
Forum: Ubuntu 2010-11-05, 19:58
Replies: 494
Views: 211,378
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: [WIP] Ubuntu 9.10 on the N900

Intruction to patch u-boot are on:

http://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/maemo/u-boot/

Basically you have to git clone git://git.denx.de/u-boot.git, revert to bd2313078114c4b44c4a5ce149af43bcb7fc8854...
Forum: Ubuntu 2010-11-05, 19:19
Replies: 494
Views: 211,378
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: [WIP] Ubuntu 9.10 on the N900

Hoping I'll remember all steps, anyway I unpacked the omap ubuntu 10.10 image to a partition of my external SD card, copied /lib/modules, /lib/firmware and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/* (to have TS...
Forum: Ubuntu 2010-11-05, 17:33
Replies: 494
Views: 211,378
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: [WIP] Ubuntu 9.10 on the N900

Nice!, quite slow, hoping it depends of my class 2 sd card.
Forum: MeeGo / Harmattan 2010-11-04, 17:01
Replies: 20
Views: 7,660
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: Anyone can program a boot manager like GRUB for N900 ?

U-boot is a good boot manager, I used it for years on the OpenMoko freerunner. It has a menu and is configurable: settings, scripts, environments are saved to a nand partition.

I think that u-boot...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-10-29, 16:59
Replies: 3
Views: 1,178
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: PR 1.3 and dual boot

Thanks, so what's the exact kexec sequence?
I'm trying to load the meego kernel with:

kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35.3-10.3-n900 --command-line="init=/sbin/preinit rootwait root=/dev/mmcblk0p1...
Forum: Themes 2010-06-16, 20:00
Replies: 74
Views: 13,727
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: Would you Pay $1 for a maemo theme.

Good point, and as the n900 has several closed components (that we payed) those linux principles cannot be used here.

Hoping you'll gain some money for your effort.
Forum: Development 2010-06-02, 01:19
Replies: 8
Views: 2,318
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: Developing an internet application.

A good way may be to use Qt and qt-mobility framework.
With the bearer api you may request a connection, with other Qt classes you can download webpages without taking care of all the mentioned...
Forum: General 2010-05-26, 00:27
Replies: 40
Views: 11,823
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: Thank You Nokia.

Thank you Nokia.

Now is the time that the community (me too) will code great qt apps instead of waiting for pr 1.3 ;)
Forum: Development 2010-05-24, 17:25
Replies: 659
Views: 220,152
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st June. Open to all!

I just added (hoping) all the requests made on this thread, m-fart and m-boobs may seem a little stupid to me too, but it may be the community likes so much to say to iphone users "we have them and...
Forum: Development 2010-05-24, 17:06
Replies: 659
Views: 220,152
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st June. Open to all!

I added to the wiki page a wishlist draft, had to read again the entire thread, so do not blame me if somethingh is missing :)

Everyone is invited to fix, enhance and add ideas (prizes?).

It's...
Forum: Development 2010-05-22, 16:26
Replies: 659
Views: 220,152
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st June. Open to all!

I did not forgot the wish list, and planned to put it on the wiki page (qgil suggested to use the wiki), just need a bit of free time :)

About the newbie developers your pov is ok, but still think...
Forum: Development 2010-05-22, 14:56
Replies: 659
Views: 220,152
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st June. Open to all!

This competition is a very nice idea, and I'd like to see it organized in the best possible way, if it will be a great success we may repeat it, may be 3/4 times per year.

I guess it has two...
Forum: Development 2010-05-21, 11:34
Replies: 659
Views: 220,152
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: [ANNOUNCE] The First N900 Coding Competition! 21st May-21st June. Open to all!

I just guess that a really general missing application may wins over a personal one. So is there a wish list?
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-05-16, 14:16
Replies: 273
Views: 99,304
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: Here Is Why The PR 1.2 Firmware For The Nokia N900 Is Late

I think that instead of blaming average users about that, Nokia should put more effort to underline that the N900 has no great phone capability.

The first thingh should be to correct all blogs and...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-05-12, 03:14
Replies: 428
Views: 116,834
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: Speculation about PR1.2

This is a speculation thread, so let me speculating a bit :)

Maemo died, the only real reason to release PR1.2 was to provide qt 4.6.2 and give to n900 users the possibility of use (buy)...
Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle 2010-05-10, 01:31
Replies: 273
Views: 99,304
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: Here Is Why The PR 1.2 Firmware For The Nokia N900 Is Late

Are you following maemo-developers list? nokia official position is that the n900 is a consumer device for our mothers or guys drinking coffee in the next bar.
Forum: Community 2010-05-07, 22:05
Replies: 58
Views: 8,344
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: What happened to Poll: What Religion Are You?

I was a bit rude, sorry, do not want to offend anyone and respect the moderators effort.
It's only that deleting instead of closing seems so drastic!
Forum: General 2010-05-07, 07:24
Replies: 65
Views: 22,302
Posted By nicola.mfb
Re: Poll and discussion: When/Will Linux become a major contender in the OS market?

It seems noone gives a chance to meego, if it mantains what promised it may accelerate a lot the process IMO.
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