EPISODE · Feb 26, 2022 · 50 MIN
#15 INTERVIEW: Miles Alan (of Sxmo, fbp, Mepo Fame)
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We got a chance to talk to Miles Alan about a lot of his exciting projects: how he started Sxmo, his new and even more minimalistic framebufferphone UI, and the super fast map application Mepo. The latter will not only run on Sxmo and fbp, but also Phosh and possibly on Plasma Mobile and more UIs. Featuring @craftyguy, @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam, @mil (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Sxmo Early Days suckless.org Sxmo 0.1 thread on PINE64 forums (2020-05-20) Framebufferphone Sourcehut project with a nice high-level introduction (as with all of Miles' Sourcehut projects linked below) User guide describing the modes/keybindings/fifo API and how to use the UI Zig & Oil Shell ziglang.org oilshell.org Mepo Sourcehut project Wishes/Future Alpine's diskless mode: installs all packages into RAM, local backup is used to store state NetSurf, visurf FOSDEM2022: Linux Mobile vs. The Social Dilemma How To Contribute Miles projects, links to mailing lists etc are on Sourcehut Editing by: @MartijnBraam, Music by: The Passion HiFi
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We got a chance to talk to Miles Alan about a lot of his exciting projects: how he started Sxmo, his new and even more minimalistic framebufferphone UI, and the super fast map application Mepo. The latter will not only run on Sxmo and fbp, but also Phosh and possibly on Plasma Mobile and more UIs. Featuring @craftyguy, @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam, @mil (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Sxmo Early Days suckless.org Sxmo 0.1 thread on PINE64 forums (2020-05-20) Framebufferphone Sourcehut project with a nice high-level introduction (as with all of Miles' Sourcehut projects linked below) User guide describing the modes/keybindings/fifo API and how to use the UI Zig & Oil Shell ziglang.org oilshell.org Mepo Sourcehut project Wishes/Future Alpine's diskless mode: installs all packages into RAM, local backup is used to store state NetSurf, visurf FOSDEM2022: Linux Mobile vs. The Social Dilemma How To Contribute Miles projects, links to mailing lists etc are on Sourcehut Editing by: @MartijnBraam, Music by: The Passion HiFi
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#15 INTERVIEW: Miles Alan (of Sxmo, fbp, Mepo Fame)
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