Re: Honestly do you regreat spending all that money on the N900?
 

I sincerely doubt that they'll "renounce on the Linux way of seeing things" since that's the whole point of maemo. They'd lose all their existing userbase and developers in one fell swoop.

The maemo 6 device is scheduled for the second half of the year, so it won't be the summer. And given Nokia's track record on dates and deadlines. my guess is November/December again.

Re: Honestly do you regreat spending all that money on the N900?
 

Nope, honestly I think the device is re-Great!

Re: Honestly do you regreat spending all that money on the N900?
 

I just had a discussion including an iPhan boy praising his limited device. Another person got into the thread and asked me if I had tested shirc on my N900. So I downloaded it, installed it, ran it and it all worked fine without any hazzle at all (although only me was logged in on my N900, so the chatting was somewhat boring).

Now waiting for the iPhan boy to do the same...

Re: Honestly do you regreat spending all that money on the N900?
 

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Re: Honestly do you regreat spending all that money on the N900?
 

Ask the iPhan boy to do what I did with my N900 with multitasking (look at my signature), I'm sure he can't... ;)

Re: Honestly do you regreat spending all that money on the N900?
 

What sound does Nokia make anyway, and how would the price hear it, exactly? XP
Optification is unfortunate, although that's been well discussed on both sides, so I won't continue that here. I'm not sure what you mean by "extra steps", though. Sure, the App Manager isn't exactly the most streamlined package manager I've seen on Linux, but it generally does the job; I'd like to see some big improvements, but it doesn't need to be taken out and shot. Also, "the Linux way of seeing [doing?] things" doesn't imply installation and upgrade issues. In fact, the "Linux way" generally works pretty well. The actual implementations, of course, can vary, as can the Quality Control processes, but I would argue that the repository/package model is in some ways superior to others. If you have legitimate complaints about package QA, missing features/usability issues, etc., then by all means file them in the bugtracker or Brainstorm. Please don't just make generalizations on the forum, though.

Re: Honestly do you regreat spending all that money on the N900?
 

"Honestly do you regreat spending all that money on the N900?"


I would spend the money again if necessary. :D

Re: Honestly do you regreat spending all that money on the N900?
 

I thought of buying another yesterday. Luckily reasoned before acting -what the hell would I have done with another?!?

Re: Honestly do you regreat spending all that money on the N900?
 

Will be the ''optification'' still around in Maemo 6 or it can be avoided somehow?

why the repository/ package model gives any advantages to developers or end-users?

Re: Honestly do you regreat spending all that money on the N900?
 

Considering that the chips used for the root partition are only now crossing 1GB, it will likely still be done if you want a large number of applications on your device. No other phone does what the N900 does, and Android has to be rooted before you can run apps from the SD card (which is essentially optification.)

It lets you one-source all applications and lets you maintain a cleaner, easier to update system. Dependencies and conflicts become easier to manage and avoid, allowing Nokia to do the SSU push of PR1.1 without forcing everyone to do a full reflash.

Package management is a great thing, it's only unusual or of questionable value to those whom have never used a system based around it.