Thread: Maemo 5 Reveals its Features
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2008-12-09 , 04:09
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#72
Originally Posted by bow View Post
I really don't get the negativity... So what if Fremantle won't run on our old N8x0-s? For my beloved n800, Diablo does the job, letting me read ebooks, listen to music, watch videos, rdesktop onto my server to do stuff on a powerful machine, etc. I'll be able to go on doing all those things even if my n800 never ever gets another upgrade. Sure, diablo ain't perfect, but it ain't all that bad either, and the software we already have for it is great.

Do we only want OS-s that run on obsolete hardware? Backwards compatability is nice in theory, but rarely really works out. I want great new hardware, and great new software to run on it, optimized to run on that hardware. If that means
having to eventually stop -upgrading- my old machine, so be it.

Look to the possibilities and the future, not to the past!
It's all about the support. Once maemo5 is out, the developers (either from Nokia, Skype, etc or from the maemo community) will stop working to develop/compile/patch for maemo4. Then we have at least one serious problem: security. I don't know what others think, but I would never input serious passwords/credit card numbers in an OS if no one is patching the security holes (BTW, this is why I would never install the vim-7.0 available in the extras repository; not sure whether the security flaw from the official release is patched, but don't want to risk it).

I think why so many people are complaining is because they are doubtful about how much support the maemo community can provide without Nokia's "official backport". Is the community able to deliver a stripped-down (I don't really care much about the new eye-candy UI) version of maemo5 for N810? If not, can the community continue to fix serious problems (especially security related) in Diablo? Only time can tell...
 

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