Hacking & Retrocomputing

www.aopensource.com

Ten years after palmopensource.com, the directory of open source applications for WebOS/PalmOS, I decided to start AOpenSource.com, which is a directory of open source apps for Android and Android programming links.

Contrary to PalmOpenSource, AOpenSource will be more "up-to-date" because most links will be automatically updated from …
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Android NBench: PC power in your pocket

When I have a new Linux device in my hands, I love running NBench to see the raw CPU power. So I ported the NBench to Android, and you can find it in the Android Market.

The benchmark was designed to expose the capabilities of a system's CPU, FPU, memory …
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Palm WebOS rootfs now available !

As the webmaster of http://www.palmopensource.com , I try to find more details about the new Palm(tm) Linux based OS: WebOS. Right now, the WebOS SDK is not available to everybody, it should be available in a few weeks, but something interesting has happened: The Palm Pre root …
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Gandi Hosting vs Amazon EC2 computing power

I'm currently playing with Amazon Web Services and EC2, Amazon's highly flexible VPS hosting service. Gandi Hosting is providing a similar Xen based hosting service, and last day I saw that they benchmarked their basic "one share" server with Unixbench and got a score of 40.

I was curious to …
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New Android Page and DextRootFR mod

I've just set-up a new page about some Android experiments:

http://www.drolez.com/software/android/

One of my 1st contribution to the Android community is a new rooted ROM for French Dext Owners: DextRootFR I saw the Motoblur 1.3.20 update coming but none of the usual modders …
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