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Being a scuba diver I never seen one until recently.

After this bad joke we can come to some real infos. Harald is working on the kernel full steam ahead. Good progress so far. Sometimes faster sometimes slower.

From my side I concentraded on the OE side so far. Booting into a fso-image is working now. With every new hardware feature the kernel gets support for we can start to integrate it into FSO. GPS and BT are good candidates as they are just attached to UARTs and the enabling/disabling via GPIOs is already in the kernel.

A 'cat /dev/ttySAC2' already gives out some NMEA stancas. SiRF III binary protocol has to wait a bit longer. Next week I'll have some fun with making use of the GPS in frameword. Stay tuned.

I first heard this sentence from raster. Talking about using the software you create to really get a feeling about what is good, bad and broken.

If you do software development for profit it is very likely that you work on software you never really use. Isn't this a scary thing? I man how should you know what works and what not? Are you finished when you completed 100% of the spec?

In the free software world on the other hand developers are often driven by scratching own itches. Fixing things they found bad or broken by using the software.

Looking at my desk I can see 7 linux based mobile phones around. Most of the time I used non-Neos as my phone for the daily use. This does not make me better then others devs not using the code they produce. Holger does it, Daniel does it and many colleagues in Taiwan does it. It was time to feel the pain yourself.

Over a week now I'm using my Freerunner as primary phone. Loaded with the latest and hottest on our way to FSO milestone 4. It is an interesting journey. Showing me how much I already miss compared to other phones. Also showing me how much we need to care about stabilize better for our milestones. MS3 was bad in this regard. We hope to do better with MS4.

During this journey I started to write down what annoys me. Annoyes me as a user. Besides all kind of smaller and bigger issues I had to learn that ZenPhone is really not a UI for the daily use. It is a testing apps to expose our interfaces, not more. Really looking forward to the UIs the SHR guys and raster are working on. Perhaps even a nice paroli. We will see.