Enlightenment 17 for embedded on E680i

[psiodon]

I think this has been put on a back burner, there are so many other projects that people are working on its hard to do everything at once. I often wish I had studied more software less hardware so I could be of more help in such situations. I had looked at the fancypants videos and could only imagine what that would be like on the e680i. In my opinion and its just an opinion but now that the openezx people are devoted to putting out another phone that by the time openezx is finished there would not be much of a point to it. If everyone could just pull thier resources together to finish a big thing like dialing and gps, we could be using an open operating system on our phone now and debug as we go. Big things are hard to finish but once they are done, you get the interest of so many others to finish the small things. Linux has been booted, opie has been loaded so close, but so far away.

I feel maybe its already too late, there are alot of people now trying to jump in on the open phone bandwagon so those will be available to buy before our phone is capable of working properly in an open platform. I blame motorola for alot of this, simply because they were not very smart about things. Who cares what is done with your cellphone, as long as people want to buy them and keep buying them. If motorolas phones were completely open they would have had a nice burst in sales. I invision the future of my e680i the way i did my 486, brush the dust off, throw linux on it play with it, but its just not your main computer any longer. It will be time to upgrade very soon, too many things I am just not happy with on the e680i i want more, wifi, nice camera, 1500ma battery, metal casing, cellphones are your computers of the future and open linux platforms will make those startup companies boom in sales of cellphones the way the internet did for computers. Watch and see.

[swifty]

if you can wait 2 more months, you will see a new star on our mobiles.
think about, if openmoko will be released i think it is possible to run it on
ezx
because the roots of openmoko are A780!
http://www.motorolafans.com/forums/v...asc&highlight=

[swifty]

some news directly from here:
http://www.vanille-media.de/site/ind...-related-work/

By Michael "mickeyl" Lauer

While I was in Taipei, I revamped the EFL recipes in OpenEmbedded. They suffered from a lot of hackish workarounds that were necessary while EFL didn’t use pkgconfig and had some bogus autotools usage. This is now history and so we have a more or less clean set of EFL recipes in OpenEmbedded!

This — of course — also has some relevance to OpenMoko.


Hey mickeyl,

let me add here:
this has also some relevance to openezx and my A780

Thanks for your great work!
swifty

[swifty]

i can see some good things in the future!


<guaqua> raster: are you planning on porting & developing e17 for openmoko?
<raster> guaqua: is the sky blue? do i like beer?