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Hello all, welcome to Openmoko Community October 19th newsletter. The big news this time are opkg.org and the new Openmoko engineering team focusing back to the basics on Improving user experience.
Things were rather quiet on the distribution front. Rasterman's October 11th images (source) were put online. This is not really a distribution, but rather a demonstration that illume runs well and is so beautiful, for others distros to grab. We also saw daily SHR image builds online, no release yet but available for testing. And Qi, the next bootloader, recently got resume support.Testing shows that it is much faster than uboot indeed, but no release yet.
Everybody applauded when Tobias announced http://opkg.org , an online directory of applications (think Freshmeat, Tucows...). The database is community-driven, everybody can register and index applications. In the flow of community developped utilities, I noticed:
With respect to porting other applications to our favorite platform, I read that powertop actually runs on the FreeRunner. For your information, this is an utility that allows to measure and therefore optimize power usage. Also: