ZimReader for Openmoko

[steven mosher]

cool.
  I wonder if that will work on the NanoNote?

  www.qi-hardware.com

  Sign up as developer, when device come it I'll look into getting you an
early unit.

Steve

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Marc Bantle <openmoko at rcie.de> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> Since an offline  encyclopedia is most valuable on mobile
> devices, I worked on building ZimReader for the Openmoko
> Neo.
>
> As a start I did a native build on a Debian (hackable:1 [3])
> driven Openmoko Freerunner. After fixing some minor build
> issue ([1], [2]), I can now browse Wikipedia offline on the
> phone.
>
> ZimReader performs amazingly well on the limited resources
> of the device. I use it in conjunction with woosh, a browser
> that comes with hackable:1. The content resides on SD-card.
> A full-text search takes around 5s, mostly even less.
>
> Since I'm not too much into packaging, I wrapped up a tar
> ball for those interested in binaries [4]. Please see the
> Readme for installation instructions.
>
> Note: The binaries will most likely _not_ run on OE-based
> distributions (OM2009, SHR). They have only been tested
> on hackable1. I'll try to supply packages for other distros, as
> soon as I find the time.
>
> Thank's a lot to the openzim team for their great work!
>
> Cheers, Marc
>
> [1] http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6
> [2] http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5
> [3] http://www.hackable1.org/wiki/Main_Page
> [4] http://www.gut-informierte-kreise.de/openmoko/openzim/
>
>
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