Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:10:14 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: jhoinsmath <js4491753@gmail.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mobile/Cell Phones, What you got? Message-ID: <20091129071014.GA2182@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20091129144733.K20036@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <26556545.post@talk.nabble.com> <20091129144733.K20036@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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El día Sunday, November 29, 2009 a las 02:53:38PM +1100, Ian Smith escribió: > Unless you're trying to get FreeBSD running on your phone, or using > FreeBSD on your laptop to communicate with your phone, please refer to > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile I'm using a Linux based cellphone, the OpenMoko Freerunner: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Main_Page it would be nice to change to OS from Linux to FreeBSD in this; but even with Linux it works very well together with my FreeBSD laptop: - you can SSH to the cellphone - you can connect with vncviewer to the cellphone and have its screen on your laptop - you can use the cellphone as a GPS router to Internet - you can use the GPSD in the cellphone and having the maps with tangoGPS in your laptop - ... all this (and more) is described here: http://www.unixarea.de/openmoko.txt and I gave a talk a year ago in the Havana (Cuba) local Linux User Group about how they work together (it's in Spanish but maybe from the pictures you will get an idea): http://www.unixarea.de/OpenMokoLiaHab/ HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Vote NO to EU The Lisbon Treaty: http://www.no-means-no.eu
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