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2009-07-05 , 16:01
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Originally Posted by hawaii View Post
You couldn't be more wrong. The "app installers" fetch packaged and PRE-COMPILED ARM binaries. They do not compile directly on the tablet. An newcore is a HUGE re-write, it still takes almost as long as the oldgen kismet source does to compile.
That is not accurate. OS2008 (Diablo) is an offshoot of Debian that has been optimized for the N770/N8X0 platform. It is still Linux and has to follow the rules. It is nice to have pre-compiled binaries already made up in easy to find repositories, but that is only ONE way to do so. Somebody has to take the source and compile/cross-compile in order to get those pre-compiled binaries. I happen to enjoy doing that. (Aside from the occasional brain fart which started this thread.) And I've decided to chuck 05 for the recently released 06. (The newcore docs say they are ARM compatible so I'm working on the compiling on my four core work machine. Fingers crossed.... )