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MWKN Weekly News: 24 September 2012


Hildon Foundation Board nominations

Randall Arnold has put forth his candidancy for the upcoming Hildon Foundation Board election. Randall is a 3-term past council member with a long history of community involvement. Part of Randall's announcment stated:
I've been very concerned with the negative tone I see permeating our community
Randall joins Tim Samoff as the candidates who have declared so far.
Read more (maemo.org)
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New version of open source flasher (0xFFFF) for Maemo devices released

The Open Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher (0xFFFF) has long been the only open source alternative to Nokia's own FIASCO flasher. Last week Pali Rohár announced a new release:
Now after 4 years new version 0.5 of Open Free Fiasco Firmware Flasher 0xFFFF was released. It is only bug fix release which fixing generating and unpacking Fiasco images used on Nokia N900.
Pali is rewriting the next version for better FIASCO image handling and additional protocol support (eMMC, cold flashing). The current release is available from his website, and the source is on git.
Read more (maemo.org)
Read more (nopcode.org)
Read more (github.com)



In this edition...
  1. Front Page
    • Hildon Foundation Board nominations
    • New version of open source flasher (0xFFFF) for Maemo devices released
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