Forum: Community
2009-04-29, 18:23
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Replies: 238
Views: 40,880
Re: The new talk.maemo.org theme
People, I think you should stop bugging Reggie about the aesthetics of this new theme. This is the theme that the maemo.org team developed, completely in the open, completely transparently, over the...
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Forum: Community
2009-04-29, 17:14
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Replies: 66
Views: 13,748
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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle
2009-04-28, 20:39
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Replies: 8
Views: 7,738
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Forum: General
2009-04-28, 19:18
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Replies: 74
Views: 14,342
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Forum: General
2009-04-28, 00:01
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Replies: 74
Views: 14,342
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Forum: Community
2009-04-27, 21:25
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Replies: 238
Views: 40,880
Re: The new talk.maemo.org theme
Just to clarify: On LCD screens (such as those in the tablets, and on most desktops), white uses less power than black, and in general light uses less power than dark.
The opposite is true for CRT...
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Forum: Community
2009-04-27, 20:18
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Replies: 238
Views: 40,880
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Forum: Community
2009-04-27, 19:08
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Replies: 238
Views: 40,880
The new talk.maemo.org theme
I've been working hard finishing the talk.maemo.org theme. It's about finished and we are just ironing out some bugs. We hope to roll it out within the week.
Here's a taste on how it will look:
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Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo
2009-04-27, 10:28
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Replies: 9
Views: 2,549
Re: GNU commands incompatibility?
There will be some compatibility improvements for Fremantle.
Just query for Busybox bugs (also in RESOLVED/VERIFIED/CLOSED state) in https://bugs.maemo.org .
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Forum: Competitors
2009-04-26, 15:46
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Replies: 64
Views: 38,513
Nokia 5800 vs Nokia N810
As someone asked me to do a comparison in another thread, here it is, the Nokia 5800 compared to the Nokia N800/N810.
First of all, I don't think they are really direct rivals at all. Their...
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Forum: General
2009-04-24, 14:23
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Replies: 49
Views: 11,178
Re: What's left to do?
Ditto :P
The patch is by Rafi Rubin - I just built a version with another patch to enable Applications through x11vnc (again, patch not by me ;))
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Forum: General
2009-04-23, 22:28
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Replies: 18
Views: 5,091
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Forum: Community
2009-04-22, 19:21
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,377
Re: Main page of ITt
That page is about to be deprecated by the move to talk.maemo.org in the following days.
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Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo
2009-04-22, 14:32
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Replies: 24
Views: 12,727
Re: How to install multiple apps at once ?
https://garage.maemo.org/projects/aptitude - but only for DIABLO_X86... I tried building for ARMEL, but failed. Maybe I'll do it on device, as aptitude is something I do wish to have on a tablet...
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Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo
2009-04-22, 09:58
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Replies: 24
Views: 12,727
Re: How to install multiple apps at once ?
For the records, https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601 is the request about being able to install several packages at once.
Please vote for this bug (Log in, Click "Vote for this bug", set your...
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Forum: Alternatives
2009-04-21, 05:52
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Replies: 40
Views: 24,113
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Forum: Development
2009-04-20, 20:41
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Replies: 4
Views: 11,984
Scratchbox for Windows - Alpha
This is an archive that contains the portable ubuntu (http://portableubuntu.sourceforge.net) project with an image containing a fully installed Scratchbox.
Warning the image is 4GB. It will NOT...
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Forum: General
2009-04-20, 19:54
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Replies: 47
Views: 22,700
Re: Open source vs confidential products
So at the end we have users (who want to know and in the meantime are left to speculation and little else) and developers, who are users themselves (and therefore carry the same curiosity) but able...
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Forum: General
2009-04-20, 13:50
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Replies: 47
Views: 22,700
Re: Open source vs confidential products
Most developers aren't writing code 100% of the time. Most really good developers aren't writing code 66% of the time.
There's an obvious balance to strike, but the reductio ad absurdum retort...
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Forum: General
2009-04-20, 06:26
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Replies: 47
Views: 22,700
Re: Open source vs confidential products
The problem here is that continued development in a lot of areas depends on having the information Nokia is withholding. Take the Application Manager. There's a fair bit of interest in improving it...
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Forum: General
2009-04-19, 18:52
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Replies: 47
Views: 22,700
Re: Open source vs confidential products
Let me insist that this is not a thread to discuss how well Nokia understands or developes open source. Please open a new thread if you want to discuss that. This thread is to discuss why Nokia keeps...
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Forum: General
2009-04-19, 16:18
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Replies: 47
Views: 22,700
Re: Open source vs confidential products
There once was this project, you may have heard of it, called Linux. They somehow figured out how to do this.
We have some massively successful OSS projects out there, with a process that is...
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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle
2009-04-19, 12:24
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Replies: 232
Views: 60,914
Re: Kate Alhola's Maemo Presentation
Rather than becoming fixated on your perception of Nokia's level of openness, it'd probably behoove you to pay attention to the information that already out there and the answers to these points that...
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Forum: Maemo 5 / Fremantle
2009-04-19, 11:43
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Replies: 232
Views: 60,914
Re: Kate Alhola's Maemo Presentation
You keep saying things like that, but it's really hard to develop for a device which may or may not have a physical keyboard, may or may not have a GPS, may or may not have a phone, has a screen or...
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Forum: OS2008 / Maemo 4 / Chinook - Diablo
2009-04-17, 21:31
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Replies: 24
Views: 12,727
How to install multiple apps at once ?
Is there any alternate GUI Application Manager for the N810 ?
Anything that allows you to select multiple applications for install, and just installing them at once, like you can do in Linux on...
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