Author Archives: slyon

Update: Openmoko GTA04 »Phoenux« is getting reality

Posted on July 26, 2011 by slyon

Table of Contents The Story Technical Specifications Prototypes & Early-Adopter Boards Future How you can help Thanks Links The GTA04 is rising like a phoenix from the ashes… The Story All started off with the idea of a fully open … Continue reading →

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HP/Palm Pre2 Developer Device

Posted on May 8, 2011 by slyon

Recently my free HP/Palm Pre 2 developer device arrived from the US here in Germany. In March I wrote an email to HP/Palm to apply for the “developer program”, in which they offered free Pre2 devices to qualified developers. As … Continue reading →

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Free platforms Go On, despite former giant’s NoGo

Posted on February 15, 2011 by slyon

This is an official PR announcement from the FOSS community. Different translations are available here: wiki.freesmartphone.org /CZ /DE /ES /PL Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 – Despite the recent departure of a former mobile handset manufacturer giant, several developing teams and … Continue reading →

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Android is running on the iPhone!

Posted on April 22, 2010 by slyon

Check out this video, where the iPhone is dualbooting iPhoneOS and Android! The guys from the Linux on the iPhone project did a great job. Now let’s start porting real Linux, FSO and SHR over to it =). Here is … Continue reading →

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Steam is comming to Linux, now for real!

Posted on April 22, 2010 by slyon

Yay, seems like the Steam Client, the Steam Engine and the Steam Games are comming to Linux, now for real. There is no official announcement by Valve, yet. But there are Linux binaries and a Linux launcher script on the … Continue reading →

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1000x 本 NanoNote

Posted on February 25, 2010 by slyon

Yesterday (24.02.2010) Qi-Hardware1 proudly announced their first product of copylefted hardware – Ben NanoNote – which is now released to the public. The first batch of 1000 NanoNotes is produced. They are shipping and in stock in Hong Kong, Europe … Continue reading →

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Virtual Keyboard

Posted on October 4, 2009 by slyon

I just found this little EFL-testapp: It’s an app written by Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri. It’s an Iphone like virtual keyboard. You can find the sourcecode on googlecode.. I had to apply a little change to the code, to get it … Continue reading →

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fsoraw and neon

Posted on August 16, 2009 by slyon

Today I decided to try out the picture-viewing-app “neon” [1] [2] on my Freerunner. This app is really amazing! It is pretty fast and provides very cool features like auto rotating images by dimensions, auto rotating window using accelerometers and … Continue reading →

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FSO Milestone 5.5 is out!

Posted on July 9, 2009 by slyon

A few minutes ago mickey released the long-awaited milestone 5.5 of the FreeSmartphone.Org (FSO) smartphone middleware. Check out the git-commit here: http://git.freesmartphone.org Big thanks to the whole FSO team for this great piece of software! Now let’s look forward to … Continue reading →

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LinuxGamePublishing flash sale

Posted on May 8, 2009 by slyon

In den nächsten 24 Stunden (von Fr, 08. Mai 2009 01:00 Uhr bis Sa, 09. Mai 2009 01:00 Uhr) gibt es alle Spiele, die die Firma LGP (Linux Game Publishing) auf Linux Portiert hat für eine Preis von 9 englischen … Continue reading →

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