> > On Oct 27, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Urivan Saaib wrote: >> >> I've been playing with Diablo on my n770 for several months. It has >> >> been >> >> fairly stable. > > > > No, you've been playing with Chinook. Diablo is not available for the > > 770. Well, this is a question I've meant to ask Quim for a while now, so here is my opportunity. I've asked it here before without an answer, but some threads on ITT have brought it back to light recently. Despite the disparaging remarks by the Maemo team when OS2008HE came out ("end-of-the-line", "too much for the poor beast" etc.), quite a few people (including me) are satisfied with it breathing a new life into their old 770. Maemo Mapper in particular, a rare example of commitment to maintaining a native maemo app on all NIT platforms, works just fine on it. The problem we are having now is that some recent apps, or their Diablo upgrades, fail to install or run, although they could be really useful on a home-bound 770 : to name a few, Canola, Maemo remote (which also uses EFL), or liqbase... So, before the Fremantle wave definitely buries the 770 platform (and maybe the N8x0 too), it would be really good to see a final update bringing the main Diablo improvements to OS2008HE, so that it can still run the latest relevant apps. Is there any chance this will happen ?
Not from Nokia's side. We rather invest our time in http://wiki.maemo.org/Objective:Maemo_variants so whoever can come up with customized editions at will. Anybody interested in this objective (and removing the obstacles in the way) please propose specific tasks and file specific bugs/requests. About the rest of the thread, how useful is it to discuss before Nokia publishes the maemo 5 API and announces a product shipping it? Enjoy your current devices! Fremantle is not even in alpha. The N810 WiMAX edition just started the sales few days ago (running the very same software inside). No matter what happens with Fremantle the N800/N810 users are going to benefit from this. -- Quim Gil marketing manager, open source Maemo Software @ Nokia