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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

I decided to buy an ebook reader recently as there's a lot of manga I want to catch up on and after borrowing mallum's Sony Librie for a while, I've found that it's a great format for reading comics. Brilliant to de-stress while things are compiling. Anyway, Linux tools for such devices seem to be woefully lacking, so I figured it couldn't be that hard to write my own (for my own particular needs) - and thanks to FOSS, it really wasn't :)

Thanks to The GIMP's scripting engine, I have a script that can transform images into the required format; thanks to bash, I have a shell script that can get all the images to the script; and thanks to cairo, it was incredibly easy to write an app that turns a load of PNGs into a PDF. Source for all can be found here - handy if you have a Sony Reader/Librie or an Irex Iliad or something along those lines. Probably less useful for Kindle users..?

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Today is my first working day at OpenMoko.

After I met my new coworkers - I will need some time to get used to all the new faces - I started to play with the Neo FreeRunner. So I followed the wiki instructions to flash my cell phone with the last kernel and file system image. It worked fine :-)

Of course, since I am a fan of python and gtk, the second thing I tried was to run a python / gtk / glade application. And the proof that it works with no problem :

Here is a screenshot of glade designer running on my laptop :
And here is the same interface running on the Neo FreeRunner, from a python script :

This is pretty cool. The only problem is that the menu bar looks a little bit too small for a screen touch interface.

libqrencode is a library for encoding data in a QR Code symbol, a kind of 2D symbology that can be scanned by devices such as a mobile phone with a CCD.

Over the last days I did some changes to the SCMs for my private projects. Some got migrated from svn to git. Also some git repos changed the location. Please refer to the overview websites if you run into trouble:

http://svn.datenfreihafen.org/$PROJECT_NAME

http://git.datenfreihafen.org/

Since I left OpenMoko I have found some time to work on OpenEZX again. There are two nice things that happened since then.

The first one was that I got an 18bpp patch for all the second generation devices working. At least pxafb and fbcon are working fine now. I still need to test X more. :) The patch was from the gumstix patchset. Thank you guys.

The second was the boot_usb 0.2.0 release. We use this little tool a lot and SVN is stable most of the time. Especially after Daniel Ribeiro added support for initrd, commandline and setting the machine ID a release was needed.