<div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/17 Al Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:openmoko@mazikeen.demon.co.uk">openmoko@mazikeen.demon.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Thursday 17 December 2009, Brolin Empey wrote:<br>
> 2009/12/16 Al Johnson <<a href="mailto:openmoko@mazikeen.demon.co.uk">openmoko@mazikeen.demon.co.uk</a>><br>
><br>
> > On Thursday 17 December 2009, Brolin Empey wrote:<br>
> FreeRunner, Om2009 (completely unusable because the GUI kept becoming<br>
> unresponsive), SHR-U (version 080808 or 090808? I can find out which<br>
> version I tried when I am home tonight.<br>
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</div></div>That's a long way out of date!<br></blockquote><div><br>It was the current release when I tried it in 2009-08, soon after I got my FreeRunner.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br></div><div class="im"><br>
> I had the base or tiny version of<br>
> SHR (I forgot what it was called, but I can find out when I am at home<br>
> tonight.), which had very few apps, but I could not upgrade to the full<br>
> version because I did not have a usable ssh connection.), and finally<br>
> QtMoko, which still has issues but is by far the most usable distro I have<br>
> tried. I could try SHR again, but my first impression of SHR was very<br>
> poor because I do not understand how they could release such a broken<br>
> image.<br>
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</div>shr-unstable is just that, and breakages happen. The images are just nightly<br>
builds that have nominally succeeded, not a release that's supposed to be bug-<br>
free. The recently released shr-testing is intended to avoid the sort of<br>
failures you can get in unstable, but it takes a little while for bug fixes to<br>
trickle down from unstable.<br></blockquote><div><br>I was expecting SHR-unstable to be like Debian Linux unstable, which is actually not unstable in the sense of having lots of breakage.<br><br>I thought the image I tried was recommended because it was supposed to work well (had been tested), but I could be wrong. I should have asked if there was a better (less broken) image I could have tried.<br>
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<div class="im"><br>
> If I try another distro, it has to be able to install to and run<br>
> from a MicroSD(HC) card because I need to keep my working QtMoko<br>
> installation in my onboard NAND.<br>
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</div>I'm running shr-u (among others) from uSD. Just make an ext3 filesystem on a<br>
spare partition and untar the tar.gz image to it. I assume you know how to<br>
multiboot already...<br></blockquote><div><br>I have not multibooted my FreeRunner because so far I have run only 1 distro at a time from the onboard NAND, but I can probably figure out how to multiboot because I have multibooted PCs + my iPod + maybe some other devices I am forgetting. :)<br>
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