Category Archives: Software

GTA04 Installation Guide for SHR

Posted on February 2, 2012 by slyon

GTA04 Installation Guide for SHR This is a step-by-step guide, which should get you from zero to a working SHR on your GTA04 in just a few minutes. Getting the files shr-core image: shr-image-om-gta04.tar.gz shr-image-om-gta04.tar.gz (latest staging image, for testers … Continue reading →

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Updated: Openmoko Community Survey 2011

Posted on December 27, 2011 by slyon

Update 9.1.2012: results are updated. As the year 2011 nears it’s end, we – the Openmoko Community – did a poll [0] about which is the most popular hardware and which is the most popular software in our community. The … Continue reading →

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webOS is going to be OpenSource Software

Posted on December 9, 2011 by slyon

HP the company which bought Palm some time ago just announced, that they are going to release webOS as open source software! The Linux kernel side of webOS was open souce since the beginning, with a few exceptions like the … Continue reading →

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HP|Palm Pre – msmcomm

Posted on September 27, 2011 by slyon

Table of Contents Msmcomm FSO Status Links As you may already know[1], I got a free HP|Palm Pre2 developer device some time ago. The first project I started with this really nice piece of hardware is Bootr[2] – a multiboot … 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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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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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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