The first artwork done for mukt.in was two support buttons. One green buttons and the other was black & white support button. I liked green whereas Krish (Lead Organiser for mukt.in) liked black button. He used black & white support button almost everywhere.

Krish helped me with the posters as I have never  . And everyone in the team member liked the posters except one. He said "The poster sucks like hell. Keep that poster for a 10th class science of compscii fest or MS Office training class."

There was a talk on Openmoko. So, Krish asked me to do Openmoko phone. I did that and exported as .png  file. Krish opened .png one and thought that it was downloaded picture until I told him that it was  not a photo but done by me. He loved that artwork.

Finally accounts of mukt.in is completed 2 days bays. Yes, it was too late, would have completed long back.  Krish fell ill, some of the bills were missing mainl was hotel bill. Tired of searching for the bill we decided to get duplicate one. Thank God that we got the missing hotel bill  from a magazine (Linux for You). Krish kept the bill in that magazine and forgot.

Da tanto che non scrivo. E ho molto da dire in così poco tempo. E sarò breve...

--mi è arrivata la simpatica saponetta. Evvai! E' l'unica cosa fonte di grandi soddisfazioni negli ultimi tempi. L'ho pure fatta funzionare.... più o meno. La scelta è ricaduta sulla distro FSO.... ma zhone fa schifo.... usabilità sotto le scarpe. E qua partono le cose succose:
--Mi sono messo a fare una phone suite da 0 usando dbus, le API di FSO, l'immancabile python e tanta fantasia
--Stasera mi sembrava che la batteria volesse prendere fuoco... E questo mi ha convinto a dare un'occhiata al suspend mode(perché consuma così tanto in suspend? eh? EH?)
--Appena finisco la suite e la pacchettizzo faccio una ella guida su come fare il "tuning" della distro più esosa di tutte=> FSO
--Ancora prima pacchettizzerò a-phone-utils che servono per controllare la sim(contatti, messaggi). E poi vedo cosa ci metto.

--Ho iniziato a Lavorare settimana scorsa. Ho ben poco tempo per giocherellare con Lily (la mia "saponetta" openmoko ... e sì, sono pazzo e gli ho dato il nome. Qualcosa in contrario? :P) Il lavoro è bello, programmo Javascript e un po' di Java, ma resto della mia opinione di sempre: JAVA DEVE MORIRE!

Om 2008 es la primera liberación de OpenMoko la nueva iniciativa de software, una distro basada en X11, y a la vez un paso muy importante de gtk. Posee una intuitiva interfaz de usuario y aplicaciones Qtopia para telefonía.

Algunas de sus características más importantes del FreeRunner:

* Tamaño y Peso
- 120,7 x 62 x 18,5 mm
- 133 gramos

* Pantalla
- Pantalla Táctil
- 2,8 "VGA (480x640) Pantalla VGA

* Velocidad
- ARM9 @ 400 MHz
- Aceleración gráfica 2D/3D

* GSM
- Tri banda 850/1800/1900 MHz
- Tri banda 900/1800/1900 MHz

* Potencia
- batería extraíble 1200 mAh.

* Memoria
- 128 MB de SDRAM
- 256 MB NAND Flash
- Slot microSD

* Entrada y Salida
- Input and Output
- Audio jack 2,5 mm
- Conector externo GPS.

* Hardware destacados
- Wi-Fi (802,1 1 b / g)
- AGPS o GPRS (2,5 G no EDGE)
- Bluetooth 2,0
- Sensores de movimiento 3axis.

* Software destacados OpenMoko.
- GNU / Basada en Linux.
- 100% software libre en la CPU.
- Las herramientas de desarrollo de GNU / Linux .

Aquí pongo también una comparativa entre el iPhone(incluido el iPhone3G) y FreeRunner.

Fuente: openmoko, openmoko.com

Hoy (tarde, es verdad) y luego de verlo a Jon "Mad Dog" Hall hablar de ello en las JRSL, me entero que ya está disponible para la venta una versión llamada Neo FreeRunner (codename GTA02) el cual se vende en tiendas on line desde el 3 de Julio pasado a un precio de U$S 399.

Existe una página para ver una de las distribuciones que puede funcionar en el teléfono, y por lo que muestran los gráficos, no tiene nada que envidiar a otros teléfonos del mercado.

Según indican en la página, el modelo actual está pensado solo para developers y no para el usuario final. Igualmente, no hay todavía forma de comprarlo directamente en Argentina y hay que pedirlo. Existe un wiki para guiar a los consumidores a pedir el teléfono.

El primer renglón de la guía para Argentina dice claramente:

Customs procedures in Argentina can be extremely bureaucratic and not all customs officials are trying to be helpful

Esta nueva versión es una mejorada sobre la versión del 1973 y como indica el wiki posee las siguientes características:

Las especificaciones comparten algunas características con el anterior Neo 1973 como:

• Pantalla táctil de alta resolución (1.7" x 2.27" - 43mm x 58mm) 480x640 pixels [caption id="attachment_544" align="alignright" width="200" caption="FreeRunner 02"][/caption]
• 128MB de memoria SDRAM para permitir la ejecución de varias aplicaciones a la vez
• Modulo GPS interno para programas de posicionamiento y navegación
• Bluetooth para el intercambio local de datos
• El aspecto físico es prácticamente el mismo que el Neo1973.

Y incluye las siguientes novedades:

• 802.11 b/g WiFi para rápida transferencia de datos y navegacion web.
• Un procesador mas rápido a 400Mhz (en comparación con 266MHz del Neo1973 )
• 2 3D acelerometros que permiten saber la orientación para por ejemplo cambiar a modo apaisado automáticamente
• 2 LEDs que iluminan los botones en el borde de la carcasa (uno bicolor [azul|naranja] en boto POWER, y el otro de color rojo en el botón AUX)
• Tribanda GSM y GPRS 850/1800/1900 Mhz para Norte América y 900/1800/1900 Mhz para el resto del mundo
• Función USB Host con salida 500mA permitiendo alimentar dispositivos USB durante breves periodos de tiempo (La batería del FreeRunner se descargará rápidamente)

En una nota en 20minutos.es "MadDog" responde a la pregunta del periodista:

[caption id="attachment_547" align="alignleft" width="141" caption="Jon Hall y el Neo: by Ariel Kanterewicz http://atpic.com/en/4364 "][/caption]

Está usted muy implicado en el proyecto Openmoko, ¿podría explicarnos en qué consiste y por qué es diferentes a otras iniciativas para móviles?

Es distinto, no sólo porque todo el software ha sido desarrollado con métodos abiertos, tampoco porque todo el código del software esté disponible, sino porque además todos los componentes de hardware se han creado documentando el proceso, de forma que cualquiera puede modificar, mejorar, o crear su propio dispositivo y cambiar el sistema operativo. Actualmente hay tres paquetes diferentes de software para Openmoko, con el cuarto (Android) en desarrollo. Esperamos que otros fabricantes creen teléfonos abiertos en los que se use Openmoko.

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En la foto se lo puede ver con el Neo en la mano durante las Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre.

• Accelerometer plugin for Freerunner. Now you can use odeviced to retrieve accelerometer values for the position of the device along the x,y,z axes.
• Completed Powercontrol plugin. Kept putting this off, but got myself to complete it today.
• IdleNotifiers enabling apps to keep track of the state of the device viz. IDLE, BUSY...etc
• Input plugin for signalling input events on DBus. Like button presses, etc. Should make this asynchrounous once vala offers support for async DBus on the server side ('read' systemcall can block)
• Initial Audio plugin, am keeping this as a TODO outside GSoC.

The daemon is far from complete and GSoC was meant to be just the beginning to get the basics right. Integration of odeviced as a subsytem of a frameworkd implementation (theres already a python implementation) in C is something I am looking forward to contribute in the next few months. It would be uber cool, if someone lends a helping hand for now to make odeviced work on other devices on which openmoko (and FSO) can run.

I am not sure if people will find this interesting, but still

• The plugins average around 14kB in size, with powercontrol being the biggest of all. (25KB)
• The main odeviced binary is around 26KB, which IMO, is quite teency weency.

(But given the fact that the code links against GLib and DBus, I have no idea if these numbers mean anything at all. I would be grateful if anyone thinks this is something to cheer about)

P.S: I am looking for a temporary place to host the ipks for the lazy ones, will post the link once I get that. Meanwhile, get the code here.

ROMA - L'iPhone e il suo software che, anche da lontano, può controllare le operazioni effettuate dall'utente finiscono sul tavolo del Garante per la Privacy: Federconsumatori e Adusbef hanno infatti inviato un esposto urgente all'Autorità "per verificare le compatibilità con l'ordinamento italiano ed europeo", e si preparano, nel caso fossero necessarie, ad intraprendere "azioni a tutela dei cittadini".

Il sistema operativo intelligente - ricordano le associazioni dei consumatori - nasconde un software che si attiva in automatico e si collega all'insaputa dell'utente ad un indirizzo internet gestito dalla Apple, per verificare se all'interno del sistema stesso fossero stati installati programmi diversi da quelli forniti dalla stessa Apple, quali videogame, enciclopedie,programmi per scrivere testi e per collegarsi alle radio tramite internet. "Se gli utenti avessero conosciuto preventivamente, che all'interno degli iPhone, fossero stati secretati programmi misconosciuti, in grado di spiare le attività più recondite dei cittadini - sostengono i presidenti di Adusbef e Federconsumatori, Elio Lannutti e Rosario Trefiletti - difficilmente avrebbero fatto la fila nei negozi per acquistare a caro prezzo un 'piccolo fratellino', in grado di decrittare gli usi ed i consumi di milioni di utenti".

"Apple tramite un programma nascosto,decide quale debba essere l'uso del cellulare, quali strumenti utilizzare, con la finalità di ripulire dal software programmi sgraditi e non in linea con la politica di business, visto che ha venduto 60 milioni di applicazioni in un solo mese,dei circa duemila creati appositamente per i Phone, per un controvalore di 30 milioni di dollari. E' come se al consumatore che acquista una qualsiasi merce, pagando il relativo costo per il suo utilizzo, venisse inserito di nascosto al proprio interno, una serie di restrizioni: all'automobilista - concludono le due associazioni - viene impedito di fare il rifornimento di carburante a determinati marchi, al computer di collegarsi verso determinati siti,ecc".

Fonte

C'è chi a suo tempo ci aveva messo in guardia...

• El primer teléfono OpenMoko; totalmente de código abierto

• De lo último de NetGear; router WiFi con soporte para 802.11g

• Navegador GPS con pantalla de 4.3 pulgadas y resolución de 480x272 píxeles

• Opera, Skype, Google Talk y Yahoo! Messenger; total conectividad

• Reproductor multimedia portátil; películas con calidad DVD en sus 30GB de disco

Enlace:

• 10 Coolest Devices Running Linux

Neo Free Runner!

Weighs about 6.5 ounces, has a 128MB SDRAM and supports Wi-fi, GPRS, Bluetooth 2.0 etc. Basically, runs on Openmoko LInux developed by FIC offering complete Customization like no other.

With Third Party Software popularising among People, the Neo Runner is a sureshot winner in its own Domain.

The Other Tech Specs can be found here.

My Verdict:

Having a self-customizing phone sounds great! but maybe only for a student or an embedded developer. As of yet, the average user would rather stick with a traditional stable 'Walkie-talkie' kinda Phone.

While the FreeRunner has taken some hits for various shortcomings I have to say I was fairly impressed after only a few minutes of messing with it.  It has good weight and feel and I had no problem navigating through the screens.  While I did not have time to make a call I noticed that a number of participants had managed to do so.

I would love to see the FreeRunner develop into a viable smartphone alternative, much the same way Ubuntu has as an OS, but for right now I think it is pretty much a geek only tool.  For more info on this device check out Sam Churchill's write up over at dailywireless.org.  Today Gizmodo announced that OpenMoko is releasing the chip schematics so that you can build your own.

Ultimamente ho trovato in internet questo interessante smartphone touchscreen basato sul sistema operativo OpenMoko, sistema a sua volta basato sul kernel Linux e quindi sulla licenza GPL. Al che è molto allettante, visto che mi stò interessando a prendere uno smartphone e visto soprattutto le INGENTI RESTRIZIONI di software e hardware del famoso e famigerato "i-Phone 3G"; Come prestazioni, ammetto che l'i-Phone è superiore al Neo; però ora c'è di mezzo la sorte della telefonia mobile del futuro. La vogliamo in mano al Software con Restrizioni, o al cosiddetto "Codice Aperto"? Oltre alle ormai famose restrizioni hardware di Apple, che come sempre crea il suo bel "blocco unico" che se solo si tocca si perde automaticamente la garanzia, e anche solo per cambiargli la batteria bisogna portare il telefono in assistenza (pagando, ovviamente). Il Neo, oltre a essere completamente personalizzabile a livello di software e di interfaccia grafica, può anche essere completamente smontato, e suppongo che non ci siano problemi con la garanzia. L'unico problema è la distribuzione, che in Italia non penso che avverrà, perciò a questo punto si fa prima a comprarlo dall'America, con un notevole risparmio. Anche se, tuttavia, si può acquistare da Germania, Francia e Inghilterra, però con prezzi nettamente superiori (si tratta del doppio del prezzo).

Io, personalmente, preferisco questa nuova frontiera della telefonia mobile; anche se alla fine so che il sistema operativo dell'i-Phone è uno dei più leggeri che esista, secondo me con il continuo sviluppo di questo sistema free edei suoi applicativi possiamo raggiungere livelli anche superiori all'i-Phone, anche magari con un hardware più limitato. Accogliete la sfida? Io, quasi quasi, sì.

Step 1, go to the website.
Step 2, click on "Store".
Step 3, click on "Buy from OpenMoko store". (this should really be the end of the journey...)
Step 4, click on "Buy it now" (didn't I just click 2 other links indicating my desire to buy it now?)
Step 5, look under the heading "Purchase Options".
Step 6, scratch head and wonder why there are, apparently, no purchase options.
Step 7, read "Which Neo is for me?", "Contents", "Return Policy".... ah, here we go... "Sold Out?". (why they bury the information that the FreeRunner is currently sold out is a mystery to me.)
Step 8, click on the handy link to purchase from an official "Openmoko Distributor".
Step 9, click "America" (which isn't readily apparent, since it's light gray text on dark gray background)
Step 10, click on "United States" (only other option is Canada).
Step 11, discover that there are two stores you can buy from. One is in Mississauga, Ontario (didn't we just choose USA and not Canada? WTF?). The other is in Long Beach, California.
Step 12, give up and buy an iPhone 3G. I don't think I really want to buy a phone from a company that can't set up a decent user-friendly website, anyway.

For the record, if I go back to Step 10 and choose Canada, only the Mississauga store is displayed. So at least they got that one right...

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Nu har jag fått min mobil också, den är helt grym. Man har så sjukt mycket möjligheter med den. Vill du byta operativsystem, sure thing, det finns ett par stycken att välja mellan. Jag kör openmoko 2007.2 som den kom med men funderar på att dual-boota den med qtopia också. Den har wlan och om man behöver komma in på ett WEP-nätverk så finns det färdigbyggda paket för att få fram koden.

Come è facile intuire, l’aspra critica rivolta dai sostenitori del software free all’iPhone riguarda le limitazioni di libertà introdotte dal dispositivo. Il primo punto su cui viene posta l’attenzione è l’impossibilità di creare free software per il dispositivo dal momento che gli sviluppatori che desiderano realizzare e distribuire applicazioni per il dispositivo sono costretti a pagare una tassa ad Apple. Questo è chiaramente il punto cardine dell’articolo e non c’è di che meravigliarsi se si prende in considerazione la mission della Free Software Foundation.

La seconda problematica oggetto di discussione è il supporto della tecnologia Digital Rights Management (DRM) incorporata nel dispositivo. La posizione della FSF al riguardo è chiara: l’autore dell’articolo afferma che il sistema DRM messo a punto da Apple controlla le attività degli utenti e stabilisce cosa è possibile fare limitando la libertà dell’utente. L’articolo continua affermando che non risulterà possibile installare del software che non piace ad Apple sul dispositivo non fornendo l’opportunità all’utente di installare free software.

Strettamente legato a questo secondo punto è la totale assenza di supporto per la riproduzione di formati aperti, ovvero liberi da royalty (anche detti DRM-free) come Ogg-Vorbis e Theora. Questo, associato all’impossibilità di realizzare free software per il dispositivo rappresenta una chiusura totale ai formati aperti.

Il quarto motivo è che iPhone monitora tutti i vostri spostamenti e quindi rende rintracciabile chiunque ne sia in possesso. Ciò avviene tramite il GPS integrato che, secondo il parere della FSF, potrebbe comunicare le proprie coordinate senza l’esplicito consenso dell’interessato. Ultimo, ma non per importanza, punto messo in rilievo dall’articolo è la consapevolezza che esistono alternative che rispettano le famose quattro libertà dell’utente: non spiano l’utente, consentono la riproduzione di formati multimediali liberi ed usano free software: chiaramente non poteva mancare il riferimento ad OpenMoko.

Nell’articolo ciascuna questione viene approfondita e, per chi fosse interessato, è consigliata la lettura dell’intero articolo nonchè dei link correlati. Una dura critica nei confronti di quello che Steve Jobs, CEO Apple, ha presentato con le seguenti parole: “Questo è il telefono che ha cambiato i telefoni per sempre”.

Fonte: tuxjournal

Stay tuned for a review of Openmoko Framework, Milestone 2. My first impression is it looks good. Will come back after exploring more!

I have been playing with QEmu today and realised the image that are downloaded with download.sh is the Qtopia image. Which does not really offer much.

I have downloaded the one from scaredycat today and working great in QEmu.

I have set up the internet connection too accroding to this tutorial

The image file I used does not comes with python, so I used the following command

opkg update
opkg install python-core python-pygtk

I have not really tried done Python programming but it doesn't see to be complicated to use. I will have a look what can be doen with pyGtk tomorrow. :)

First, his business model: his employer was paid every time an item in their content library (say, a new first run movie) was displayed to a user. Independent of whether the user viewed the content on a satellite network, a cable set top box, via DSL on a home PC, through an in-car navigation system or airline seatback (you get the drift, the network is the movie theater). He wanted to reach as many consumers as possible, wherever and whenever he could.

That said, for every movie he added to his library, he had to encode the file into a dizzying array of file formats. Some 20 or 30 if he wanted to reach all his audiences - across PCs, phones, set tops, game machines, etc. The format proliferation was costing him a fortune in storage, and the complexity and expense of encoding and decoding the various media streams was driving his computing purchases at an incredible clip. 1,000,000's of subscribers, 10,000's of titles and 100's of devices and file formats - the multi-dimensional matrix was exploding, yet, as he pointed out, delivered no real value to his customers. Customers don't care about movie formats, they care about movies.

Reciprocally, advertisers don't care, either - they care about reaching consumers, not devices.

And if you wanted to know my three sentence summary of the global battle, the battle to reach consumers that fed this challenge and spawned the focus behind what we're announcing today at JavaOne, it's this:

1. Businesses want direct relationships with their consumers - the internet provides access and opportunity.
Whether you're a media company showing a movie, a car company running an ad, a global telco or a startup presenting a new network service - the internet has become an obvious vehicle to engage consumers. And not just on PC's - looked at globally, phones matter more in this debate than PC's. Why? Because most of the world already experiences the internet through a phone. Today. And may never own a traditional PC.

2. Technology companies enable the devices through which enterprises connect with consumers.
These companes come in two basic forms: consumer electronics companies, building phones and set tops and nav systems and PCs - frustrated by the format wars described above; and more valuably (at least to Wall Street), a small number of technology and service companies aggregating consumers in front of those devices.

3. The largest and most powerful technology companies are using their products and services to disintermediate businesses that want direct relationships with consumers.
And therein lies a market opportunity for one of these:

What is it?

It's a phone running Sun's new JavaFX Mobile software, a member of the JavaFX product family we announced this morning.

What's JavaFX? It's a software product from Sun that allows any consumer electronics manufacturer to accelerate the delivery of Java/Linux based devices, from phones to set tops and dashboards and everything else imaginable. Without fear of format lock-in or disintermediation from a competitor. JavaFX is a product (not simply a technology), built on Java Standard Edition (the Java platform running on your desktop computer), that unites billions of Java SE and Java Micro Edition devices (Java Micro Edition is what runs on most of the world's mobile handsets).

JavaFX provides a complete and fully open source platform for device manufacturers, content owners and service operators wanting to reach consumers with interactive content - and control their own destiny.

In the eyes of the consumer, devices are converging - where you want to watch a movie, play a game or connect with friends - or where an advertiser seeks to reach you - presents a less interesting question, today, than when. You can watch a movie in your living room, on a big flat panel display. But when you leave for work, you'd prefer to use your mobile to watch the last 15 minutes on the subway. On the way to work, an advertiser might want to reach you on a billboard or taxitop, or insert an ad into the video stream you're watching. And once at work, you might want to join a fan network or write a review (on your lunch break, of course). Consumers (like advertisers and operators) want the experience to be simple, secure and coherent. And device independent.

Sound familiar? It is - this was the original vision behind the Java platform - Write Once, Run Anywhere. For software. And with the convergence of media and application formats, and the rise of open source software (think about it - Linux and OpenSolaris are the ultimate in user generated content), the market seems ready. We can deliver a complete product, OS and all, that eliminates the risk of fragmentation among network clients, accelerates the availability of Java/Linux devices, fuels the free and open source developer community - and already has the mass and momentum to reach the global consumer.

JavaFX radically lowers the bar to building a Java technology enabled device - and radically lessens the expense and complexity of reaching consumers. Backed by a company with no agenda to disintermediate content owners, and every interest in propelling the open source community (every portion of the content Sun contributes to the JavaFX product and community will be via the GPL license, at the core of Java and GNU/Linux).

But that's not all we announced. Although the Java platform has been technically effective over the past decade, in opening markets and creating value, it's been the province of... well, folks who could sling Java code. Highly technical individuals who saw themselves as software developers - not web authors or creative professionals. And that changed, today, too.

JavaFX Script is a simple scripting language designed to bring the benefit of the Java platform to creative professionals and web authors - independent of the device or audience they target. JavaFX Script adds to the list of languages already supported in the Java Virtual Machine, from PHP and Ruby, to Javascript and JavaFX Script - and brings the power, security and extraordinary popularity of the Java platform to those at the forefront of convergence: those defining interactive content for consumers.

You can get more detail here, but the focal point of JavaFX Script isn't simply to enhance the Java platform - it's to amplify Java's role on the consumer internet, unify content and devices, and extend the reach and value of the billions of existing Java runtimes in the marketplace. All of which will be JavaFX Script enabled. The intent is simple: to stake the Java community's natural claim to lead the debate surrounding rich internet applications at the heart of Web 2.0.

With the rise of JavaFX, JavaFX Script, JavaDB, Glassfish and NetBeans - there should be no doubt where we're headed with Java. Everywhere.

Or when we're heading there.

Right now.

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