i have android up and running on my htc touch (vogue/cdma) from bell mobility thanks to this fine man's work. his port of android's 1.0 sdk is still incomplete but very much usable at this point; calling, data, sms, sd card support, and input all work reasonably well.

martin has been working day in and day out on this project, releasing new builds several times a week and rapidly correcting bugs and other issues people have been having. we in the vogue community are very lucky to have him on our side. :)

i had a bunch of other things to do today, but instead i sat around and decided to play with kde 4. the guys over at kdemod have made this pretty easy for arch linux users; after adding their custom repositories you can download and install the latest and greatest kde 4 via one command. they've actually been up to this for a while, but the last time i checked they didn't have up-to-date x86_64 packages, and, well, now they do.

this is what i'm talking about. review is to follow.

if you haven't heard already, adobe just announced plans to bring its adobe air technology to linux. the software giant has been frequenting headlines in the open source world as of late, finally realizing that in 2008, taking strides to appeal to the linux community isn't such a bad idea. unfortunately, adobe can't even offer things for the platform that they are proposing as "standards."

after a multitude of (highly unsuccessful) attempts to compile and install kde 4 from source using the directions at techbase (everything would build fine, but i would encounter strange errors upon login and plasma was broken), i finally decided to format an i686 machine i had kicking around with arch and install the kdemod4 testing packages.

if you use arch linux, then chances are you've become accustomed to relying on the command line for package management. pacman is, after all, a very robust and powerful package manager, and definitely one of the distribution's strongest features. unfortunately, it also lacks decent gui frontends. i'm new to arch and the first thing i found is that most of the current frontends to pacman are either discontinued or highly confusing, so i've decided to take matters into my own hands.