* preview on openmoko
Posted on October 16th, 2008 by Alex. Filed under openmoko.
Today I found something interesting for those who are interested in the openmoko project or are eagerly waiting for their purchased and shipped device to arrive.
Since the source code of the operating system of the phone is freely available (see also this post), it is quite easy to install an emulator that gives the interface of the Neo1973 (not the freerunner so far) in Ubuntu. For a short preview and to play around a little bit, this is quite sufficient. A detailed manual and howto lists all necessary packages that need to be installed on the Ubuntu box. The same instructions also apply, if you have Debian installed. Follow the steps one-by-one and especially Xaos’ hint (in the problem section) to get it working in the emulator.
If you want to remove the emulator again, simply delete the directory in which the emulator resides. Also the installed packages can be removed to save disc space. I provide a list of installed packages as a reference.
