[pkg-fso-maint] What software do you (want to) use on your Freerunner?

[Timo Jyrinki]

First of all, congratulations on the SoC job!

2010/4/29 Thibaut Girka <thib at sitedethib.com>:
> 1°) µSD, yes, but NAND?
> In any case, µSD will be supported, but do you think it is worthy to provide support for Debian on the NAND?
> It shouldn't be that hard, but I don't think there is any benefit in it, since there is only 256MB available.

Support for / on NAND, which is compressed by the way, and /home on
uSD could be nice. But not a priority probably at this point.

> 2°) What bootloader should be supported? Qi? U-Boot? Both?

I use only Qi, but doesn't matter to me that much.

> 3°) Which Desktop Environment should be the default?
> Gnome is the default DE for a desktop installation of Debian, but it, of course, isn't suitable for the FR.
> I guess the main challengers are:
>  * XFCE: quite similar to Gnome, stable, usable, it has been in Debian for a long time and there is already a task for it
>  * Illume: faster and finger-friendly, but much more experimental, and available in unstable only

LXDE or matchbox + fbpanel are actually my own main challengers.
Fbpanel would definitely need new upstream packaged, though, current
maintainer is missing in action.

> Then, do you use your FR as a phone? If yes, what software do you use?

Yes, I use. Currently mostly the current stack in squeeze (not in
pkg-fso) and Zhone.

In addition to phone software, I use literki for keyboard, intone for
music, woosh for web, wicd for WiFi and TangoGPS/FoxtrotGPS for basic
GPS usage and navit for actual navigation capabilities.

-Timo