Bluecasting plan B
Somehow I managed to screw up a Gentoo install on my MiniITX system (what finally did it was lost networking so I couldn’t fix broken packages, and a lot was broken) so I thought I’d think of alternatives.
I’ve played with Pebble in the past which is based on a stripped down Debian, and I got on with it quite well, so I downloaded a minimal install CD image, and quickly got a system up, even managed to get bluez-utils installed without much trouble.
It was too good to last though - the last tool I needed was ussp-push to do the OBEX push, and it turns out it’s not a stable Debian package yet.
Unless I want to take a big chunk of the system to unstable packages, I need a plan C.
Try http://www.backports.org/
Or just make your own debs from source. it’s not too hard.
btw, one day I’ll tell you how I defeated comment spam on moblog without using a captcha.
Comment by mat — October 16, 2006 @ 1:27 pm