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For the time being LiMo quite cleverly marketed almost any Linux based device by their members as "devices based on LiMo technologies" but actually there were no real LiMo compliant devices available. According to LinuxDevices ... [More] http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Vodafone-360-H1/ this is going to change and first real LiMo spec compliant devices seem to emerge. They also announced the availability of an app-SDK with it - it will be interesting to see how "open" those devices will actually be. [Less]

The LinuxToGo main server has moved to a new hosting location on a much more powerful machine. We assume that this will have some positive impact on the overall performance and reliability of LinuxTogGo platform. We are running on a new machine with ... [More] an Intel i7-920 Quad-Core CPU and 8 GB of RAM. We have a 100MBit uplink in a large computing center in Germany. Expecially for services like GIT and SVN we ecpect a major performance boost. Apart from the updated hardware we are working on major software updates as well. The old GForge installation gets migrated to FusionForge and several other services got updated. We have introduced a spam filter for all email traffic as well. Not all services are availabe already and it will take some more time to get everything running smoothly again. Not available right now are: - Bugzilla - Angström Website - Project groups - Wiki - ftp If something does not work like expected please drop me a mail to [email protected]. read more [Less]

One of the biggest issues in mobile devices today is power management. On the one hand we expect that the device is always responsive, to user input and network events, on the other hand we want all subsystems to be powered (almost) off to save power. read more

I just got my hands on a Android HTC Dream aka T-mobile G1. Originally I did not want to get any of those "unfree" Linux devices but a customer wanted me to buy and configure it for him so I thought that might be a good opportunity to play with it and accepted the deal. So here comes my report about it... read more

Looking at GPE and Angström it looks a little bit like application development and cross compilation has been neglected a little bit in the past. Now that people are improving the toolchain targets in OE I decided to start a small project to build ... [More] some toolchains for Angström based filesystem images on a few devices. Now we have the first one available: An ARMv4t one, updated to the latest OE standards and basically tested. It is available from kc labs. You can read about some interesting target devices there as well. [Less]

The LiMo foundation just announced their new version R2 of their platform specification, though they are not yet available for public consumption from their technical documents download page. read more

Widgets versus Bling aka rich GUIs Recently, mostly inspired by the iPhone(tm) GUI, a discussion in user interface design and the roadmap to new graphical user interfaces burned up and starts to divide the user and developer communities. Some think ... [More] that the rich user interfaces with new user interaction methods are the one and only new way of user interface presentation and interaction. This goes along with animations, three demensional effects, transisitons, object interaction, physical models for realising this kind of interfaces, read more [Less]

Good news for LinuxToGo: We have gained new sponsor! Bytemark Hosting sponsors a virtual server for us. Now we finally have the chance to distribute the load among two devices. Many thanks to Nick Thomas (lupine_85) for the idea and approaching us and his boss Matthew Bloch!

We have updated the server to Debian Lenny and we are going to stay with it for a while. This means that we should have reached a quite stable state apart from the limited server capabilities that lead to some reliability problems lately. The last ... [More] task in the update chain was updating the kernel to latest Debian 2.6.26 and rebooting the machine. Currently we have 37 registered projects with 390 users. LinuxToGo serves between 860 GB and 1.25 TB of data every month while the main web service takes up to 560 GB of this. We have more than 30000 different visitors and almost 1.4 million monthly page accesses not counting hits by bots and grabbers. The most traffic causing toplevel domain was '.net' while he only had four hits from '.bn' (Brunei Darussalam). The most poular wiki page belongs to the Ångström project: http://linuxtogo.org/gowiki/Angstrom Have a nice day and enjoy using LinuxToGo! read more [Less]

Very interesting: http://www.skytone.net.cn/en/ Pitily it is not a full GPE device nor do they advertise that they use parts of GPE but anyway, they do it! The Alpha400 they show on their web-page is a MIPS based mini notebook which runs exclusively ... [More] Linux and is based on a Ingenc Jz4730 CPU - usually used as SOC for media player devices ;) read more [Less]