Robert Schusters Blog

The free and open-source graphics driver for Nvidia graphics cards "nouveau" is going to be tested in the Fedora distribution. I have to say that, as a user, I have some troubles with Fedora right now but this move makes me happy. Even of I do not have this kind ...

No this post is not about a tragic accident. It is about the half-way successful attempt to get the Shark JIT compiler, which is funded by Red Hat and developed by Gary Benson as part of the Zero (assembler) port of the Hotspot Java VM, running on devices equipped with ARM ...

Hi, there have been interesting questions in the comments sections of my last post. I take the time to answer them here: Mark Wielaard asked: Finally, do you have any speed comparisons of the hotspot/zero and cacao on arm ? Unfortunately not. Subjective it feels as if the SwingSet2 demo runs better with ...

As Ken and Sebastian have already announced it OpenJDK integration into Jalimo was finished. However there was a bit of work to do to not only compile OpenJDK but to also package it nicely. This work is now also completed. Additionally - and this was not told anywhere else yet - ...

The support for PhoneME Advanced in Jalimo (and thus in OpenEmbedded) is getting better every day. Apart from upgrading to build 87 I took Ken Gillmers recipe for PMEA with the personal profile (think AWT support) and adjusted it a bit. A test build for the BeagleBoard went so smooth ...

We all love it: Screenshot time! This is PhoneME running on an N800 with the Chinook/Maemo 4.0/OS 2008 distribution. Since the differences between Maemo's Chinook and Diablo distribution releases are minimal you should be able to use the same packages on both. More on that later. And here we have the same ...

This was a big pile of work but now it is a nice achievement for Jalimo: The most complicated issues have been sorted out and we can now build Sun's PhoneME Advanced (Foundation profile) with the JIT compiler enabled for all our little ARM devices (And not only we can ...

Thanks to TI and the drawing they did at LinuxTag 2008 I got a BeagleBoard Rev. B4. When the package arrived I started getting the necessary serial cable. This board is unbelievable small. You get in a small box together with a mini USB cable: And now on to my favorite: The ...

Last week was critical. Due to some problems with our Freifunk mesh network I was offline for some days. Well, not really offline. If I urgently needed Internet connection I had to take my girlfriend's laptop (mine is still unable to deal with ad-hoc mode), walk to the Traveplatz park ...

Yeah, its true. The OpenMoko gals & guys finally fixed manufacturing issues and the first free (as in Freedom) mobile phone hardware is produced as you read this sentence. Great isn't it? Just in time for this I finished the first bit of work to get PhoneME Advanced compiled in OpenEmbedded. ...