Which Distro?
Dirk Bergstrom
openmoko at otisbean.com
Wed Jul 16 09:14:49 CEST 2008
Vijay Vaidyanathan wrote:
> I'm trying to make a decision on whether to drop in a new distribution to
> replace the 2007.2 that came preinstalled on my FR.
Me too.
> Is there an "official" distribution that is blessed and "supported" by
> "OpenMoko - The Company" and is most future-proof.
AFAIK, the answer is "Not yet, but many people are working very hard to
get to a better answer."
> 1. Why has OpenMoko (The Company) chosen not to support one definitive
> distribution as its official one? I'd like to understand the logic behind
> it. What are end-users (i.e. those who will surely have no desire to flash a
> new distro) expected to be eventually using?
There has been a lot of (sometimes bitter) discussion about this.
> 2. Which distro are you currently using?
I'm using whatever came on the phone. I did 'opkg update && opkg
upgrade' the day after I got the phone. I've made a few changes based
on the wiki, or stuff I read in emails. The one that made the biggest
difference was installing the matchbox keyboard, as built by Arne. I
don't really plan on doing a whole lot more for the next couple weeks.
> and why?
Several reasons:
*) I expect that something better will be along shortly. I think having
real hardware in people's hands constitutes a critical mass, and we'll
start seeing a clear(er) direction.
*) I'm completely swamped with work right now, and then I'm going to be
traveling for ten days (including going to OSCON). I might have some
time to play with the phone while I'm away, but not much.
*) I'm hoping that the FSO framework will make some good progress. That
seems (to me) like the right way to go. I can wrap my head around a
dbus based world, and more importantly, I can code to it in python.
*) I'm waiting for some of the dust to settle in the GTK / Enlightenment
/ Qt fracas. I only want to learn one UI toolkit.
*) I'm a high-level guy, and embedded stuff is way out of my comfort
zone, so there's not much I can *do* right now anyways. The major stuff
I want to do is dependent on things like cron/scheduling and a working
browser (with adjustable font sizes, bookmarks, and the ability to read
local files).
--
Dirk
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