Research Week 3

Progress Update:

June 14, 2007

• Read chapter 1 and 2 of Version Control with Subversion.
• Set up Eclipse to work with Subversion version control system.- Checked out the Trunk source code branch from the OpenMoko source repository.
• Read OpenEmbedded Getting Started. Still have confused what's the purpose of Open Embedded.
• Started reading OpenEmbedded Manual.
• https://foss.in/2006/cfp/slides/oe_simputer.pdf
• One thought: I think open source software has a lot of potential, but quality control (of products or docs) is a problem. I read this today: "Like most people, I come from a Makefile background, so some of the concepts that are used with bitbake are similar." How's his background affect bitbake? Is he the author of bitebake?
  

June 13, 2007

I met with Dr. Chapman, my research advisor, today for the research project. Though he shed some light on some issues with the principles of application development, and the approach to take on the project, there are apparently a lot of work to be done.

I'm still not sure what are the tools used to compile programs for the OpenMoko hardware. I am investigating OpenEmbedded for compiling, Subversion for code source, and running OpenMoko natively on my computer using Xoo and Xephyr.

June 12, 2007

• Finished GTK+ Tutorial
• Wrote GTK+ "hello world"
  

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I've finally gotten the OpenMoko emulator running without crashing, so the next logical step is to write a program to run on it. Since the architecture is GTK+2.0 based, I'm and will be reading the GTK+ Tutorial. Here are the objectives of the week:

• Finish GTK+ Tutorial. Done 6/12/2007.
  
• Figure out how to get programs running on the emulator
• Read official app sources

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The new desktop:

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The old desktop: