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Promotional Stuff

December 31, 2008

Karas posted a nice poster he made, shown above.

Also in that thread CasperN added some cool Pandora t-shirts. More officially, an advertisement was posted over on the German blog, and judging by Babel Fish’s shoddy translation appears to be a draft of an ad to go into RETRO #10. No new info, but nice to see the Pandora’s getting some exposure.

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German blog; Loading screen

December 30, 2008

Ah, it seems we have competition from mainland Europe! There is now a (similar) German blog which can be found at http://today.openpandora.org/. They have found a nice pandora loading screen, which I shamelessy share with you. After the link for those that want to keep it a surprise.

Update: According to ED, this should be in the next version of the OS in the next video.

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Gentoo; USB charging

December 29, 2008

Two small snippets for you.

viridior has posted an update on Gentoo for Pandora.

Great News!

The gentoo.pandora.devs have been able to build enough of an image that we will be able to start exporting it to dev’s with hardware for testing very soon.  Checkout gentoo.openpandora.org and specifically gentoo.openpandora.org/index.php/Gentoo-pandora-0.0.1_rc4 to see our current base image software list.

This image is ONLY intended for basic functionality and use.  You will be able to add your own software easily by using emerge <software name>.  (We are using pre-compiled binaries)  That means that you can use potentially anything in gentoo-portage.com/Browse

We will also have our own custom Gentoo Pandora Portage library for Pandora community projects and custom builds to maintain compatibility with the official distro release(s).

Squidge has confirmed that you can only charge via USB when the Pandora is off – I don’t think this is totally new but it’s worth knowing.

It should be noted however that you will only be able to charge the Pandora via USB when the device is Off. USB doesn’t supply enough power (~500mA) to both charge the battery and power the system at the same time.

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