Community news 2011-03-01

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Over at our Osmocom GSM friends, Marcin Mielczarczyk gave a status update on his effort to run Linux on a MTK 6235 smartphone, including Youtube video to show Angstrom/OPIE running on the phone. The big task of actual GSM baseband action is still missing, but I think this is one of the most promising approaches towards a free phone.

Angstrom/OPIE booting on MTK 6235 phone

David from Tuxbrain posted his impressions from attending FOSDEM 2011 in Bruxelles.

David in Bruxelles, with NanoNotes, Milkymist One, and other gear.

Milkymist

(more about Lua).

Sharism is now selling full Milkymist One sets including case for 499 USD plus shipping. Announcement
Yanjun Luo fixed the high-speed bug that slipped into our first jtag-serial daughterboard run. Existing stock was reworked by Adam, and we will replace the ones already sold either now or later (we knew and published about this bug before but decided to go ahead because the boards work fine in the still fast USB full-speed mode). [1]
kristianpaul made his own m1 case in Colombia http://kristianpaul.org/comoblog/Local_fabbed_case_for_the_Milkymist_One__Full_log_.html

Bogota made Milkymist One case (10 USD for the case, 5 USD shipping to Kristian Paul in Buga)

SiGe 4162 GPS front-end RF EVB hooked up to Milkymist One

Nick Montfort released Curveship, an interactive fiction system, and immediately ported it to his Ben NanoNote. (Curveship 0.5 release announcement, Curveship sources, Pocket Curveship)

Thanks to David, kyak and others, new ports to Ben NanoNote's OpenWrt build were made: Emacs, MPlayer, flite, pyclock, supertux, sokoban, qball and more... (Full Applications List)
Xiangfu released a new stable OpenWrt image, 2011-02-23 (Announcement, Changelog, Applications List).