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Update: Debian on N900

As I promised in my last post I improved Debian support. The changes since initial Debian support are:

• Working Cameras (via Video4Linux 2 interface)
• Working Bluetooth
• Working FM-Radio Receiver
• Complete Keyboard Layout
• mdbus2 in Debian

In short: All kernel related stuff is solved. Remaining issues are

• GSM/UMTS not working
• Charging not working
• Accessing most hardware is very uncomfortable

Debian on N900

I just managed to install Debian on my Nokia N900. I documented my steps on my Website. I plan to improve Debian support for Nokia’s N900 in the future, so stay tuned.

new blog software

The blog software initially designed for this purpose is now online. Written in plain C as a webserver providing a small http subset, it is reverse proxied by our nginx. While the former used software was written in Vala and used plain text files, this software uses sqlite as data backend.

Stay tuned and be awesome.

debian repository

I just switched my Debian repository software and location. Now reprepro is used, so I can easily provide the Release file gpg signed. Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://pkg.ring0.de/debian unstable main

and add the repository’s key to apt:

sre@mars ~ % curl "http://pkg.ring0.de/debian/key.gpg" | sudo apt-key add -

last but not least run apt-get/aptitude update. I’m currently migrating the packages from the old repository to the new one. New and updated packages will follow later.

google summer of code 2010

I just checked the list of accepted projects for google summer of code (1025). Here is the list of those projects, which are interesting in my humble opinion:

• Optimizing rendering of XBMC and aiding the port to ARM
• USB sniffer on Beagle Board (The Beagle Board is used as hardware USB sniffer)
• USB drivers for libpayload (Boot from USB support for coreboot)
• flashrom 1.0 (advanced flashing of BIOS chips)
• MultiArch support in APT (making use of x86 compability on x86-64)
• Debian-installer on Neo FreeRunner
• Implementing a multicast package download method for APT
• git-remote-svn | Native SVN support in Git
• Libgit2
• Ease: presentation authoring tool (using clutter and vala)
• GTK+ refactoring to make possible GTK+ 3
• 3D support (for gstreamer)
• VDPAU support (for gstreamer)
• Cairo rendering (for inkscape)
• Wireless Linux - Improve wireless roaming (for linux)
• Porting Canola to Maemo 5 and beyond
• Addition of Multi-touch and Gesture Recognition support to SDL
• XRender Support (for SDL)
• Cairo State Tracker (for Xorg using Gallium3D)
• Content-aware Config Files Upgrading (for Debian)