Re: Yet another [cross] installer
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Hector Oron <hector.oron@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow! I did not know they used emdebian.
yeah, my friend has one (the maplin's version), and the
cnmlifestyle.com web site / debian archive has xterm on it, as a .deb
download. once we got that running, i could work out why one of the
games wasn't working, they missed a symlink out to
/usr/lib/libsdl1.2.0.so blah blah the usual silly stuff.
so this stuff's really taking off, it's just that... well... we're
not being consulted about it! :)
> Anyway I got one similar
> netbook [1] and I found a similar version (same CPU) but free "Ben
> Nanonote" [2].
yes well cool idea.
tracking those links... http://www.g-netbook.com/GL-780F.html HA!
well cool, thank you hector, that's exactly the sort of machines i'm
looking for - you are a star. weird 1024x576 screen, never ever heard
of a 1024x576 LCD before, but... thank you.
> Again, is free *ware about cracking and reverse engineering?
> Get free hardware to run your free software ! :-)
:) if it exists, and passes my "good enough" criteria, yes.
otherwise, i'll keep working on the "slightly" free to turn it _into_
free.
>> remember: i've been there with reverse-engineering of PXA27x HTC
>> smartphones, using WINCE (HARET.EXE and gnuharet.exe) and it took up
>> about eighteen months of my life. having a truly free/libre OS
>> already on those machines would have made a big damn difference.
>
> Sure, by the time I guess there was no openmoko/n770/n8xx, that would
> probably save you some months of headaches.
this was 2 years before then; the openmoko was (is) a failure, only
has GPRS not even EDGE, and the n770 and n8xx series never had or
intended to have 3G. and the n900 is prohibitively expensive.
i deliberately went after the HTC smartphones because they had 3G.
there didn't exist and still really doesn't exist an affordable open
(as in community-open) commodity-hardware 3G smartphone / MID. the
gizmodo flow G1 (G1.5?) is still around $EUR 400.
> I GOOG we trust?! :-)
:)
> But, yes, we hope companies using open/free source release their
> software as part of their license agreement (BSD/GPL/...), but that is
> not happening just yet. (it is even worst on Asian contries).
patience. it'll get there.
p.s. thank you hector.
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