Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

just downloaded this and its extracting, been almost 1 and half. how long does it take to extract?

am i download on pc and put on the n900?

cheers


edit took about 2 hours.

i'm a linux n00b but i would like to install flash and java for web browser please. how do i go about doing this?

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

I don't use Iceweasel as it's so much slower than MicroB and it crashes sometimes.
I never tried Epiphany but as it's lighter-weight it could be more useful I think.
A PDF reader (Evince) would be great. I installed it and it works perfectly.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

I've only just started playing with easy debian yesterday, but one of the things i've noticed was that in Iceweasel flash games (.swf files) run faster than in microb, fennec, and kmplayer. flash playback on youtube stops playing after a few seconds.

Is there a way to right click?

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Why would you include a webbrowser, when MicroB is faster and firefox mobile is available. I wouldn't include a webbroswer, but focus on office apps only and other apps that are not properly available for Maemo.

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

A quick preface.. I'm doing some testing running a few heavy weight apps in a Debian chroot (simultaneously) and do not want to have to use Xephyr in this particular scenario.

If I chroot into Debian in a shell and launch something like claws-mail, is it possible to get right click functionality without using Xephyr?

(Pretty sure this question has been asked before but my search'fu is weak in finding the answer tonight)

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

very simple answer:

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

Hi all,

I have uploaded a new image for my beta-testers.

This has working audio, working (and reasonably fast) Java, the new lxde (which includes lxmusic, a simple audio player), OpenOffice 3.1, Firefox/Iceweasel 3.5, Thunderbird/Icedove 3, smbclient (Windows networking support), and fotoxx (panorama & photo editor).

This image still has no printer support (cups), no sticky keys (xkbset), and no filezilla.

titan uploaded a new archiver, "lzma", to extras-devel, and it makes smaller files and is faster than bzip2. So I am trying out the new lzma compression on this image.

Please download debian-m5-v3a.img.ext2.lzma and extract it on your N900 by running

Post your "real" times here. I'm curious to see how long it takes to decompress on various peoples' N900s.

Next, I need to get a new easy-deb-chroot package supporting this image into Extras-devel!

EDIT: This image has some installation problems, it looks like I've got a bit of a dependency mess with smbclient... :(

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This sounds great. I'll try to give it a try latter on today or tomorrow, if I have some time. But, I just wanted to point out that even with the current (old) image you can print to PDF in IceWeasel by selecting print to file and choosing PDF as the format.

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Hi qole,

Thanks for the new image!

If I want to keep my current image around to use at some later point, is it as simple as moving it out of the way, replacing it with this one and moving it back later?

Re: Easy Debian Fremantle Beta Testing
 

Huh. Well, ok then, that's enough for me. That will get you most of what you can expect from a mobile device. If you want fancier printing capabilities, you can install the whole cups package yourselves...

You don't even need to move the old one out of the way since this image has a different name. You'll have to edit your /home/user/.chroot file to point at the new image, however.