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Release informations regarding the rev5 "Chuck"
General
It was shipped on December 22nd 2009.
It is based on Debian Lenny, Debian's security updates for Lenny, and custom packages from the hackable:1 project.
This release was coordinated by Julien Cassignol.
Milestones
Changelog
- Hardware support
- Added support for the flash partition of the Openmoko Freerunner phone
- Suspend and resume support on the Openmoko Freerunner
- Experimental support for the Openmoko Neo1973 phone
- Experimental support for the ROAD Officer S101 phone
- Development
- Generated automatically by the strap:1 framework
- User-oriented release as well as for developers
- No longer using packages from pkg-fso (including the kernel)
- Security
- No longer runs as root
- Every install has its own SSH host keys
- Telephony
- Fixed the infamous three-PIN-attempts bug
- Added an application to connect to the GPRS network
- Some improvements to the SMS application
- Software
- More complete and centralized settings through h1settings
- Replaced xchat with pidgin for broader IM support
- Added a number of games (sgt-puzzles)
- Artwork
- New Gtk+ theme
- Splash screen at boot
- Regressions
- The first boot after installation is longer (necessary to generate keys, etc)
Known Bugs
- The WiFi? does not always work on startup and doesn't after a suspend. s3cmci and ar6000 modules have to be reloaded (rmmod and modprobe)
- There is no utf-8 support
- Swapping the screen orientation is highly likely to trigger a White Screen Of the Death
- The missed calls are shown on the home window even when already acknowledged
