From russell at coker.com.au Fri Jul 12 23:36:45 2024 From: russell at coker.com.au (Russell Coker) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:36:45 +1000 Subject: [Flounder] Flounder meeting 13th July Message-ID: <2691840.4XsnlVU6TS@cupcakke> https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-jul-2024-random-hack/ July Random hack day. People will be working in a variety of FOSS projects including crash debugging, Linux security, VMs, RISC-V, and probably some phone stuff. Meeting will be at http://b.coker.com.au. No need to register just click on the link on the day. Meeting officially opens at 1pm Melbourne time (03:00UTC) on the 13th of July. Here are some links about things that will be discussed and/or worked on at the meeting: KVM RISC-V documentation https://github.com/kvm-riscv/howto/wiki Getting Started with seL4 on RISC-V https://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/ 2019/12/RISC-V-Summit-Presentation-seL4-on-RISC-V.pdf Sipeed Lichee RISC-V boards and computers https://sipeed.com/licheepi4a Sipeed pre-announcedment of cheap RISC-V KVM https://www.cnx-software.com/ 2024/07/08/20-nanokvm-is-a-tiny-low-power-risc-v-kvm-over-ip-solution/ Docs for Go programming language https://go.dev/doc/ -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ From NZLUG at etelligence.info Wed Jul 24 07:03:02 2024 From: NZLUG at etelligence.info (DL Neil) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 09:03:02 +1200 Subject: [Flounder] Minimalist Dumb Phone Message-ID: Of possible interest: How I Made a Minimalist Dumb Phone With Free Software By Bertel King Published 8 hours ago https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-made-a-minimalist-dumb-phone-with-free-software/ Rather basic (as implied) Opinionated (won't work on my old phone - grump, grump) -- Regards =dn From yifei at zhan.science Wed Jul 24 13:41:37 2024 From: yifei at zhan.science (Yifei Zhan) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:41:37 +1000 Subject: [Flounder] Minimalist Dumb Phone In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2271604.usQuhbGJ8B@frame> On Wednesday, July 24, 2024 7:03:02 AM AEST DL Neil via Flounder wrote: > Of possible interest: > How I Made a Minimalist Dumb Phone With Free Software > By Bertel King Published 8 hours ago > https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-made-a-minimalist-dumb-phone-with-free-softw > are/ > I've been thinking of getting a feature phone (non-touch screen) and put free software (e,g, Debian) on it, there are people working on similar ideas in the PmOS community but getting Linux to work with the modem to enable VoLTE (which is required for phone call in most countries now) is quite difficult and the price for Linux-capable isn't that good. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Category:Feature_Phone Xiaomi (under the DuoQin brand) and Sharp are both still making modern feature phones under Android, but I suspend either of them are GPL-compliant.