Thread: New Generation of Maemo
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sulu is offline sulu
2012-03-26 , 11:59
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Originally Posted by vi_ View Post
1. The freaking kernel. Jesus christ, Give us the GOD DAMNED SOURCES for those stupid closed bits? What does it cost you? Just dump a tarball on megaupload or whatever, we will take it from there.
I guess this is much more complicated than you think. I don't think Nokia owns the intellectual property rights to release the source code. For some of it I don't think they even have the sources.
I still wonder if there was a developer in the early days of Maemo who went crazy when he heard that the mobile OS they were designing based on a Linux distro which is almost RMS-approved would be full of proprietary stuff.

Originally Posted by vi_ View Post
6. Busybox & no man pages. WTF? why? We have over 32GB of storage, how much space did you REALLY save with this horse shít?
Well, busybox is not bad per say. Yes, it's limited but I think it suffices for most of the Maemo users. And since it's not that hard to replace it with a more powerful shell. I think that's ok.
But I agree with you about the man pages. Somebody once told me that he considers packages without manpages to be broken. I tend to agree. I see why Nokia might have left them out of their packages. But I don't see why they don't offer an infrastructure to install them manually.

btw:
Has anybody ever tried to upgrade pulseaudio to something >0.9.16?
 

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