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Monthly Archives: March 2008

Very small test of Maemo media players

31-Mar-08

One of my home computers exports lot of music over Samba (everything as one share). In next room I have HiFi system where I like to play some of them. So I decided that N810 (or even 770) should be enough for it.

Default Media Player

Simple application with support for simple media library (internal flash, memory [...]

GIT - second try

20-Mar-08

Due to recent discussion on OpenEmbedded mailing list I decided to give GIT second chance (first one was few months ago).

I imported Poky using git-svn tool and started hacking. First work was switching to OPKG (described in other post). I created branch for it and changed bit after bit — result was patchset with 17 [...]

Good bye ipkg, welcome opkg

17-Mar-08

During last days I was working on switching Poky Linux into using OPKG package manager. Today whole work was merged into trunk and we got rid of non-maintained IPKG.

What is OPKG? It is fork of IPKG (from handhelds.org) done for Openmoko distribution. It has all usable patches from OpenEmbedded related projects merged and got some [...]

Year with Openmoko

16-Mar-08

It was over year ago — day when I got Neo1973 GTA01Bv3 as part of “phase0″ developer program. What happened during that time?

First there was “OM2007.1″ version of interface. Ugly, hard to use, lacking features. But that was start so let forgive developers that they created such thing.

Then OpenedHand guys created new look for Openmoko [...]

Where does my disk space go?

06-Mar-08

I have nearly 400 gigabytes storage in my desktop. Some people will tell that this is a lot, some that it is quite small size. But everybody agrees with one simple rule: “there is no such thing as big enough storage”.

From time to time I have situation when I lack space for my projects (which [...]

Poky Linux 3.1 released

04-Mar-08

Yesterday OpenedHand team (which I am proud to be a part of) released Poky Linux 3.1 ‘pinky`.

What interesting in this version?

user manual with lot of things explained conversion to use the sysroot mode of gcc, making cross compiling both easier and more robust. conversion to use pkgconfig in sysroot mode Anjuta integration with Poky’s SDK and QEMU, making [...]