So you may have seen TweetMeme went a little Joggler-crazy last week, with a grand total of 6 turning up in our office (although not all at the same time).
This is because Dom turned up one day, said they were on offer for £50, showed us all the software and hardware hacks, and we were all completely sold!
I’d like to tell you about all the hacks we’ve managed so far a little later on. But for now, here are some unboxing shots and the default OS in action.
The base software for the Joggler is Ubuntu, but this has been hijacked into a clunky and frankly terrible Flash-based frontend, which they expect you to build apps for.
On the inside, this thing has some stupidly powerful kit – a dual-core Atom chip, 512mb total ram, and a wifi chip and Alex discovered it has gigabit ethernet too.
If you get one of these, the first thing you’ll want to do is load up a memory stick and boot it into a different OS. But more on that later 
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- Joggler Unboxing – The Box
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- Joggler Unboxing – Packed Up
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- Joggler Unboxing – Extra Bits
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- Joggler Unboxing – The Joggler
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- Joggler Unboxing – Updating
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- Joggler Unboxing – Screensaver
Chris, I now have ubuntu working along with spotify, orb and iplayer.
google chrome and firefox work ok on it but I have noticed that when ubuntu is connected to my network it seems to drop every few minutes.
this does not happen with the O2 software so seems like it could be a linux/ubuntu problem.
on another matter have you got the screensaver working on either the O2 software or ubuntu as I have been unable to do this as yet.
Was trying to get the matrix screensaver working.
I also see the ubuntu doesn’t seem to be as responsive on the touch screen as the O2 software which is a shame.
Hope some one brings a better internet radio application out for it too… wish you well lj.