Handhelds, Linux and Heros

Sorry… i have to complain a little bit again.

It sounds unbelievable, but i was locked out from the handhelds.org open source platform one week ago. So how did that happen?

After GPE finally moved to its new hosting location (see http://gpe.linuxtogo.org) i published a short story about this and to say “thank you” to all the people who worked on handhelds.org in the last few years. Obviously George (who is the current boss of handhelds.org Inc.) doesn’t seem to be able to appreciate this. He deleted my message from the website and disabled my accounts. For “investigations” he told me… eh us he disabled Nils’ account too for no reason. Well… i can live with the fact that he did not like we moved away with GPE and its ok for me if he does not appreciate if i thank him, but censoring my message and locking out people bindly is a little bit violent. But before i get really annoyed i just stop this and publish my announcement from hh.org here again:

GPE finally moved to its new hosting location at linuxtogo.org. We have several new services and improvements to make it easier to get in touch with GPE, to use and to join the project. Just visit us at http://gpe.linuxtogo.org and the GForge project page located here.

Even after quite some bad words related to this move we would like to say “thank you” for hosting and support in the last five years.

Without handhelds.org GPE simply would not exist and i guess that there are quite some more project members who can say the same about their projects and even more in future.

Well… Nils found some better words:
http://handhelds.org/pipermail/gpe/56/5688.html

While building a usable kernel for the A780 seems to be really complicated it turned out to be easy getting shell access on the device and use my own filsystem on a SD card. The touchscreen interface is the same like known from multiple iPAQ devices and the common framebuffer X server can be used. We currently do not really know how to make use of the GSM modem, but as a PDA it is quite useful in this way.

Maybe i should have cleaned the phone before taking the photo :-)

If you managed to make GPE run on  on a new device, need help with this or want to improve GPE to un on multiple devices please vist us at http://gpe.linuxtogo.org or mail to the mailinglist.

What a day - Nils finally announced that GPE is hosted at linuxtogo.org now. We have a much better development platfom now including Subversion, GForge, our own Bugzilla and much more important: All degrees of freedom we need. I am really happy we managed this after all these fights.

The new website is located at http://gpe.linuxtogo.org

For information about accessing sources, the mailinglist or if you want to join the project take a look at the GForge project page.

The really sad thing is that the message i prepared for the handhelds.org website to say “thank you” was censored by Handhelds.org Inc. I take this as a strong indication that it was a good decision to move to linuxtogo.org and handhelds.org is not a good place for open source projects anymore. Thinking about the history of handhelds.org and this incident today makes me really sad…

Ok, time to get some sleep - and tomorrow is a new day, a day i can spend with useful development instead of stupid fights.
Oh, i forgot… i want to start a new collection of images from events with GPE (e.g. LinuxTag or Cebit) - i would be happy with any contributions!