flush to 2008 or not?
 

Does it worth flushing to OS2008 ot staying with OS2007?

From the point of the system stability and the amount of properly working applications.

Thanks

Re: flush to 2008 or not?
 

Considering that the official update is due in two weeks (we hope), I would hold off on flushing till then. But I couldn't resist, and it has been a fun test. But if you are in it for practicality, wait.

Re: flush to 2008 or not?
 

I downgraded. It's not completely ready for primetime yet.

Re: flush to 2008 or not?
 

Man, his house is going to stink to high heaven by then! ;)

Re: flush to 2008 or not?
 

OS 2007 is fairly mature by now with a decent set of ported applications. OS 2008 is new and only a beta is officially available for the N800. I would wait until the official release. Some of the changes made in OS 2008 should make porting existing Linux desktop aplications to the tablets easier, but as of now there are fewer available aplications. Some of the major applicatins such as Maemo Mapper, Mplayer, etc. but are not necessarily well tuned as few of the applications developers have their N810's yet due to delays in the developer discount program.

Re: flush to 2008 or not?
 

I depend on the brave folks who post at Internet Tablet Talk. Now that I use the N800 all the time I'm going to wait and read very carefully the posts here about the official OS2008.Depends oh what you use the tablet to do. I divide it into the categories "must have" and "luxury." I must have a way to check e-mail, web sites and chat through Skype. The luxury category is playing my "tunes" (MP3 or Rhapsody) or listening to the BBC. I would like to be able to listen to my favorite internet radio streams but I understand that won't be until OS2008.

I was considering the 2008 Beta but after reading comments, I'll stay with OS2007 for now.
Watch this space. :) I'm sure there will be lots of information the middle of December.

Re: flush to 2008 or not?
 

As far as just browsing goes, its great. If you need apps, then wait.

Re: flush to 2008 or not?
 

Yep, browsing is better and flash (youtube etc) too. The dictionary added in the browser is great.

But not at all sip, skype, thumb-board, xterm, FM radio. If you need to use any of those stay away!

I'm also confused if I should downgrade or wait for the next update..

Re: flush to 2008 or not?
 

I may have misunderstood this point, but both OS2007 and OS2008 can play internet radio streams 100%. The issue lies with FM radio, in that the FM radio applet has not yet been ported to OS2008.

Re: flush to 2008 or not?
 

The FM radio applet is not (yet?) available for OS 2008, but MediaBox will bring FM radio back to OS 2008 in its next release. :)

Re: flush to 2008 or not?
 

The OS2008 beta SIP client is better than the OS2007 beta, they added DTMF support, which was my biggest problem.

Hopefully they fix or provide a workaround for the xterm Ctrl key bug soon.. I was looking for a way to add ctrl to the virtual keyboard, but I couldn't find enough documentation, or the gen_vkb script :(

Re: flush to 2008 or not?
 

Yep I know, it fixed some stuff but bricked some other.
It seems that voipbuster and voipdiscount doesn't work any more
(I guess you don't use any of those..).

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1699

In general, it is obvious the guys did a lot of work with the 2008OS and it only needs some fine tuning.

Re: flush to 2008 or not?
 

Doh.. yeah that would be a problem if you're using them :)

Re: flush to 2008 or not?
 

I am using them, (voipbuster), so what shall I do , they are not going to be supported any more? , any othere ways to use them?

anyway for my needs:
I need the tablet for:

1. Surfing the net
2. Read mails
3. Voip (voipbuster & skype)
4. Multimedia (watching movies)
5. Sending/receiving files

So for these need ( as a lay unix person), what would be the better systen and applications?

Thanks

Re: flush to 2008 or not?
 

If you check back to bugzilla the guys from RTCOM give a workaround.

If it works for you could you let us know?

Mine seems to work in many cases but I still have some issues. I need to investigate them a little bit more and I will post back.