Last month we talked about Debian on FreeRunner, Gentoo is still on the run, because today gentoo@openmoko announced that a Linux source distribution can be compiled for freerunner on the phone itself. quoting Sven R :

We the Gentoo@Openmoko team are pleased to announce that we reached our first milestone for running Gentoo on the Freerunner. This mean you can cross- and naively compile a basic system including X, enlightenment, the FSO framework, WLAN tools and many more packages. Also some phone GUIs went already into the overlay located at

Users like you or your grandma don't care about compiling software on their phone, but this technical challenge means that the device itself is very reliable.

Also note, that FreeRunner is the second android phone released (after G1), and It will takes a few minutes to flash latest beta (to be reviewed soon).

Anyway if you're curious you can test this on your phone or on emulator, because qemu (should) emulates the hardware not just the OS (or VM).

A 2007 version of the emulator is also available for windows and works on wine, see this video proof.

Else you can use this deb recently packaged by newlc and still up to date :

http://www.newlc.com/en/openmoko-deb-packages-and-fosdem-debian-video

MORE DETAILS

http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Gentoo

http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/embedded

http://gentoo.mindzoo.de/index.cgi/wiki/native-compiling

win32 emultator (to rebuild) : https://admin-trac.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/624

Video: ogv : http://en.theorasea.org/story.php?title=openmoko-emulator-bin-20070625

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/