Thread: Installing software on MMC
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2005-11-18 , 07:43
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#18
Originally Posted by Titus
It seems to me, that for average user, not Linux expert, this memory limit is here to stay for now on. Using xterm or hacking firmware before you can get your software to work is no option for mass market product. In my opinion it limits 770's usability as a PDA, especially if program's data files (e.g. even browser's cache) also are on system memory (e.g. GPS software would probably need alone more memory than 770 is capable of providing). Not that Nokia ever marketed it as a PDA, but still a little disappointing.
Not picking on you - I'm responding to what you're writing...
Xterm is absolutely the option for the mass market. Opening an X term and a window on a remote app is a trivial task for a desktop icon launching script. Real Nitro's already documented it. Once the icon is created all you have to do is touch it and you have a window on any remote application that's up and running. And you can have several windows open at once, each one on a separate remote app. If you're frustrated or disappointed you don't understand how easy it is to make use of the 770 in the way it was intended, as a remote wireless touchscreen display to a world full of remote apps, whether they're running on a PC in the room you're in or on an application running on a cluster (or grid) that's on the other side of the world.

You don't have to install any such 'desktop' apps on your 770 - you only need to access them from your 770. Forget how it's done on a Windows PC, or on a Linux PC that emulates the Windows PC experience. That's not what the 770 is about. Sure, it's a bit of a PDA, but it gets its real power from the remote resources that it effortlessly accesses. Honestly, it took Real Nitro about five minutes to figure out what to do with a tiny little hint that I gave to him and his initial reaction to seeing all that software jump up on his display was OMFG! And he didn't install any of those apps, or run out of memory, or drive his 770's processors into the ground or hack any firmware, or anything! Plus, he wrote a howto for you. Try to 'get it' - you can if you try. Leave the island - swim in the ocean!