Hi everybody,

From what I can understand, given how quickly phone hardware is growing, I can understand the difficulty in providing support to an old phone model. Having said so, as a Linux user for several years, having the latest version of a certain distro doesn´t necessarily change things dramatically.

In other words, I know many Ubuntu users who are still on Hardy, yet they still get updates on their kernels, they still get many application upgrades, and most importantly, even if those new versions for applications are not added to their repositories, they can still go after them an install them. Following the same logic, a Jaunty user wouldn´t suffer from not moving to Karmic, because s/he can still download and install most of the new features in Karmic (Firefox 3.5.x, Empathy, etc). Obviously, some of the OS specific stuff that is part of Karmic (software store, different notifications, default to ext4, Grub2, etc) would not be available in Jaunty, but the impact on the end user is not big, IMHO.

Is that analogy valid for an N900 user? If the case, a Maemo 5 user should still be able to enjoy 90% of what a Maemo 6 user will have available, right?