Re: A PR1.2 by any other country.
 

i call super-BS on that.

Re: A PR1.2 by any other country.
 

This leaked firmware is very buggy though

Re: A PR1.2 by any other country.
 

That's the point! People were hounding Ari to release it even though it's not ready yet. They have been begging to get a taste of the in-development version for weeks now.

Re: A PR1.2 by any other country.
 

Everyone keeps saying how old this firmware is. If you check it against the SDK changlog and reported bug fixes it is about as new as it is going to get seen as PR1.2 was locked down on about the 8th April.
Everyone calling this may want to do a little research as this is prob it in a can.
All pics I've seen on net for HK released N900's have same firmware version Nokia would not release a half baked version there and a newer better one everywhere else.

Re: A PR1.2 by any other country.
 

well for me it works great and i am in central america no problems at all

Re: A PR1.2 by any other country.
 

Please dont make statements like that without knowledge - it makes you look dumb. (see Proverbs' 17:28)

If you have a debian or debian derrived box kicking around type "man debsign". Looking at the changelog for the devscripts package, you've been able to sign both packages and changes logs since at least Feb 1999. Your FUD is more than eleven years out of date. (And by the way, I think deb had signing long before rpm - although it was not mandatory for a while.)

You'll also find that the strongest group of pgp/gnupg trusted keys in the world... belongs to debian developers.

Why dont Nokia release fixes deb by deb to the repositories?
 

That may be so - but I'm loving it! Yes a few apps wont open (crash on start and no I've not looked into why yet - I'm not bothered because all the apps I really want work great.)

What I just dont get is why Nokia use a fantastic, highly advanced packaging system... then only release bug fixes and upgrades monolithic blocks of firmware.

Surely the whole point of using a state of the art packaging system (yes I know they are downgrading to rpm soon. Sigh.) is that when a bug is fixed in package X, it can be QA'd and pushed out when _IT_ is ready without waiting for totally unrelated pacakges a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j,k... etc to also be ready for an update.

That is why they online repositories... isnt it?

Sure release a bundle of fixes every now and then as a fresh new FW - but the fixes out as soon as QA'd! The infrastructure and means is there and ready. The community app devs know and use it - why not Nokia?

Re: A PR1.2 by any other country.
 

Maybe but nothing make you sure that this firmware doesn't contain malware ... it s from an unknow source ... it can be chineese, russian, greek, french, (other country you want) ... i ll not trust it ... and to be exact ... we don t know at least from which country this firmware have been leak ... it s post on a chineese direct download site ... this is only what we know. And personnaly i didn't trust anything coming from direct download site :)

Re: Why dont Nokia release fixes deb by deb to the repositories?
 

Not all community dev use it ... and to be honest ... this community qa testing process is huge failed. So i ll not blame nokia to not use t. And if they can release some part in small package more often. Some part really need to be tested internally : like the new phone chipset firmware ... to avoid bricked device.

Re: A PR1.2 by any other country.
 

If people would keep making more and more useless and same threads with no information - you would never find any information at all soon. so stop it. you have to blame yourself and others that making the same threads/post again and again