Rootsh – Get root easily.
/ 16 votes – 45354 downloads Updated 2012-02-03 18:20 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license Allows you to use “sudo gainroot” without having to enable RD-Mode. There is also an simpler “root” command which correctly sources the root .profile and environment. There is also an rootsh command which allows you to quickly run a command on the same command line without using a root shell (like sudo) You can find this package as rootsh in the diablo and chinook extras.
Miniature: Play online chess games on your N900
Check out our new page Funny LOL Pictures (click here) - it brings you daily funny pictures that will make you LOL! Are you in a liking of chess games? Playing with the AI doesn’t seem as good as playing with real players for you? Then you should totally check out Miniature, an FICS client for Maemo! Miniature is currently only available at Extras-devel, which means you would want it enabled in your repo list.
Harmattan version numbering explained
There has been numerous questions and some misunderstanding on Harmattan version numbering so we thought it would be the right time to share some light in to the topic. It should be interesting and good to know information for developers.
Evopedia: Offline Wikipedia Reader
Want to read some of your favorite articles on Wikipedia ? But what if you don’t have any internet available for some reason? Or maybe you just want to save up money or battery charge for keeping internet connection
Epiphany marches on
Previously in this space we saw how the bright future of Epiphany looked like, and vague promises about incremental steps towards it were done. A month later, Epiphany 3.3.4 is out there , so let’s see how well we’ve done. There’s a lot of new stuff here, so let’s go step by step.
The Battle for Wesnoth on N900
Do you like strategy games? Well, then you probably have heard of “The Battle for Wesnoth”, a popular free software turn based strategy game with a strong, Tolkienesque fantasy setting. But did you know that there is a complete port of this PC game for Maemo?
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2012.02
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2012-01-02 through 2012-01-08 As of 2012-01-09 Extras contains: total items 2799 ( 3) total open items 942 ( 7) open bugs 530 ( 2) critical/blocker 41 “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 4 “crash” 2 “patch” 2 reopened 7 unconfirmed 328 ( 1) open enhancements 412 ( 5) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 3 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 172 ( 4) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes (unchanged for 4 weeks): (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (6%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (3%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (2%) 7938 [BlueMaemo] Connection dies immediately on Mac OS X 10.4.11 Please visit Bugzilla to vote. Registration is easy and free. Ten biggest open enhancements by number of votes (unchanged for 7 weeks): (6%) 8224 [Hermes] Support for getting orkut contact details with Hermes (5%) 5453 [Hermes] Add google as a source for contact information (feature request) (5%) 5823 [Personal GPRS Monitor] programmable auto-reset (5%) 7738 [FM Radio] Scan and auto-preset feature (4%) 5045 [Conboy] Add undo and redo (4%) 11976 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] viewing sms conversations in portrait mode without horizontal scrolling (patch) (4%) 5452 [Hermes] Don’t overwrite pre-existing contact info (3%) 6383 [PasswordSafe] Add support for V3 Format (2%) 5018 [StockThis] Create a Desktop widget to display portfolio (2%) 7374 [FM Radio] Record FM radio to file Please visit Bugzilla to vote
maemo.org Extras Bug Jar 2012.01
A Quick Look at Extras in Bugzilla 2011-12-26 through 2012-01-01 As of 2012-01-02 Extras contains: total items 2796 ( 3) total open items 949 ( 1) open bugs 532 ( 2) critical/blocker 41 ( 2) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 4 “crash” 2 “patch” 2 reopened 7 unconfirmed 329 open enhancements 417 ( 1) “easyfix” 3 “moreinfo” 3 “patch” 6 reopened 1 unconfirmed 176 ( 1) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (6%) 7334 [FM Radio] audio disappear using other device functions(connecting-disconnecting wi-fi,hspa) (6%) 11961 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] Random email application (modest) crashes with CSSU (4%) 7351 [Recorder] Recorder app closes automatically after few mins (4%) 6511 [Canola] Unable to type text in Canola on N900 (3%) 11031 [PyMaemo] python-all depending on specific python version breaks updating python modules (3%) 11842 [Maemo 5 Community SSU] RDesktop halt on connection screen (2%) 6847 [gPodder] gPodder does not attempt to connect to internet if no ambient connection (2%) 8508 [The One Ring] Integration with System Contacts isn’t working (2%) 7505 [Mauku] Claims to be free, but ships no license and says ‘You are NOT allowed to modify or redistribute the source code.’ (2%) 7938 [BlueMaemo] Connection dies immediately on Mac OS X 10.4.11 Please visit Bugzilla to vote.
A tale of just another Linux kernel bug
As part of a bigger effort to get my Nokia N900 in good shape for development, I decided to track down an issue with the keyboard; I could type ‘a’, but not ‘A’ or any special characters, so no ‘shift’ or ‘ctrl’ or anything special. Trying to figure out what was going on took me through an unexpected journey, which is not remarkable, but I think it’s a good example of what many kernel developers (and low level developers) constantly go through, and as such, might be interesting for some people to read. Keycodes So, first things first.