My first day as maemo.org distmaster
Starting from today, I will be officially starting my work as maemo.org distmaster. Nokia has gracefully sponsored this position for the community at the request of the maemo.org community council.The...
View ArticleOn the perceived openness of Maemo, part one: Your target audience
Some time ago, I stumbled over a rather aggressive comment in Quim's blog, which made me wonder if we are approaching the topic of open sourcing Maemo components in the right manner. The comment in...
View ArticleEnabling RTC (clock), battery charging and watchdogs on alternative OS'es on...
Just spent a day getting RTC (clock), battery charging and watchdogs working for Mer on N900 and I thought I'd like to share how it was done for those of you wanting to run other OS'es on N900. The...
View ArticleA creative use of MADDE: A new way for theme makers to make themes for Maemo5
Recently, three source packages that were published in Diablo times was released in their Fremantle versions which I had waited for a long time for. These are:* A source package which generates a...
View ArticleA small but important update in PR1.1
This is slightly technical, but PR1.1 included a small but interesting patch to /sbin/preinit (part of getbootstate). /sbin/preinit is the first thing that gets run on Maemo5 for N900. Some history...
View ArticleMaking flashable rootfs's for the N900
For the N8x0 the way to create flashable rootfs's - that is, rootfs's usable in flasher-3.5 -r rootfs.jffs2 -f -R was through these two steps:mkfs.jffs2 -d $ROOTFS_DIRECTORY -l -n -e 128KiB -o...
View ArticleDual-booting Mer on Nokia N900
As of Mer 0.17testing10 we have an image that is fairly easy to try out on Nokia N900. This guide is for advanced users and there is NO WARRANTY. It might turn your N900 back into the crazy guy from...
View ArticleMapping openness of Maemo 5.0 PR1.1 and Maemo 4.1.2 - we're moving in the...
One of the tasks I've been doing in the last couple of months has been to try and refresh the openness data for Fremantle. This has actually been quite a challenge as I've had to retrieve a lot of...
View ArticleMBX/3D drivers out for N8x0 (and other OMAP2)
In other news, the drivers was uploaded to TI extranet yesterday - this is something people have waited for, for a long time. And you need to create a TI (my.ti.com) account for this. For those who...
View ArticleThe Mer Project - just a bunch of redshirts?
Recently, big news arrived: The MeeGo project. But let me start with some history. In May 2009 some key members of the Mer project met up for the first time 'in real life' at the Mozilla Maemo Danish...
View ArticleMaemo 6 and/or MeeGo on N900: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the...
Since some people don't follow talk.maemo.org, this is to let them know I wrote a quite interesting piece to help calm some of the worries people have been having about N900 future with Maemo6 and...
View ArticleFirst instance of 'What have I done for the N8x0's lately'
So, this is a new series of blog series on what I've done for the N8x0's lately. So people better see what I've actually tried to do for the owners of these devices.* I've spent a lot of time with the...
View ArticleWhy Meego on N900 is the right and future-proof direction for the community
So, I think it's about time for me to really weigh in why it is I'm pushing MeeGo on N900 and why this is the right direction. This is probably going to be a bit long. Some people asked me to repost...
View ArticleMer is back!
So, we are back. Please take some time to read the following mailing list post:http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-dev/2011-October/484215.htmlSee you in #mer on irc.freenode.net and on...
View ArticleTizen Conference 2012, first days
The Linux Foundation sponsored me to travel to and attend the Tizen Conference 2012 in San Francisco and as part of this sponsorship, I'll be blogging about the conference and my insights and thoughts...
View ArticleTizen conference, wrapping up
The Linux Foundation sponsored me to travel to and attend the Tizen Conference 2012 in San Francisco and as part of this sponsorship, I'll be blogging about the conference and my insights and thoughts...
View ArticleWayland utilizing Android GPU drivers on glibc based systems, Part 1
In this blog series, I will be presenting a solution that I've developed that enables the use of Wayland on top of Android hardware adaptations, specifically the GPU drivers, but without actually...
View ArticleWayland utilizing Android GPU drivers on glibc based systems, Part 2
In this blog series, I am presenting a solution that I've developed that enables the use of Wayland on top of Android hardware adaptations, specifically the GPU drivers, but without actually requiring...
View ArticleA SailfishOS Co-creators Community in 2014?
co-created by Filip Kłębczyk and Carsten MunkIntroductionThere is a challenge that stands before Jolla and that is how to create a well working community that would support the efforts of the company...
View ArticleSome doubts about GPL, licensing and the BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition phone
EDIT: Two things: IANAL. I'm not stating there is a violation here. You can look at what's linked to yourself - it worries me that the scripts I know to be central to building a mediatek kernel comes...
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