https://lwn.net/Articles/336787/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "OpenMoko: its present and future". en-us Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:21:36 +0000 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:21:36 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/337002/ https://lwn.net/Articles/337002/ tajyrink Pretty nice article. I also find it funny that now with all the Openmoko _Inc_'s problems, the Openmoko hardware (A7), project and community is finally in a state that I can start recommending it to people whom I've said to wait so far. The biggest thing is that you don't need to apply post-purchase fix to buzzing with A7 anymore, but also the software is not too terrible anymore even though it's still pure hackers all around without too much concentration (eg. on Om2009 to become The out-of-the-box distro).<br> <br> I'd like to add <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner">Debian</a>, which I'm using FreeRunner with as a daily phone. It's not just Debian-based distros you can run on Neo, you can run pure Debian (+ a very few extra packages that are still in Debian's <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianFSO">Debian-FSO team's</a> repository). It's not that out-of-the-box as SHR is, but I for one _really_ like running Debian on my phone... all window managers etc. are available, you may do useless things just for fun like running OpenOffice.org...<br> <br> Additionally, FreeRunner is offered as a discount package for <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/05/msg00003.html">DebConf visitors</a>. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:19:41 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/336968/ https://lwn.net/Articles/336968/ ion <p>You might want to check out <a href="http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/">Dasher</a> for text input with a touchscreen.</p> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:09:05 +0000