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Originally Posted by andree View Post
Of course, I've read enough already to know that regular users are expecting an iphone-killer, instead of a linux-kill'em'all-for-developers phone.. Because of this, I think that both things are important to n900 - in all previews I read so far, the most important thing to mention was xvid replay, widgets, smooth transitions, nice GUI. Not linux kernel, not debian, not open source, not very nice system architecture... This ain't the ideal universe for geeks, I guess
It is and it isn't. We want mainstream exposure, but at the same time, we don't - I think.

Personally I think wider exposure can only be a good thing. It'll result in a more polished end-product. Being able to hack at it is great, but I'd rather not have to hack at it to make it functional in the first place when I'm spending so much on it


Originally Posted by andree View Post
I'd very like to spend hours reading forums, I do read many threads in this one - but.. Sadly I don't have that much time, wish i had - thanks for info...
Perhaps I came across a bit harsh, and if I did, sorry. I've become very addicted to Maemo as a whole (let's not even start on the N900), so I'm a fairly addicted visitor/reader/poster on here now.

Originally Posted by andree View Post
yep, and without some visualisation (e.g. opened+critical vs. closed bugs graphs) it's hardly helpful to predict the finalization date All of this could've been arange by nokia, once they commited to openness...
Again - I probably came across a bit overly critical here. My point is that this *is* a learning process for everyone involved in it, and I don't think there's any bad faith on Nokia's part here, even if there are things that could have been done better. It's all something that can be kept in mind for the future.

Originally Posted by andree View Post
It's too late for that already anyway... n900 will be probably "complete" in a weeks in one way or another.. we could just have been spared these last 2 months, and reading of 1000 posts long thread(s) about device shipment (which I stopped following after a few posts, thankfully)... that's all..
You're one of the lucky ones. I've become obsessed, and am currently spending far too many hours drooling over these forums, and this device.

Originally Posted by andree View Post
without some summarization (like done with e.g. linux kernel or KDE releases), changelogs for individual subprojects are also not too helpful...
Depends what you want, I guess. If you're looking for specific information, it'd work, and at this stage of the game, I'd hope that it's quite a small number of changes anyway...

I do hope that summaries of updates will happen once the devices are out there for subsequent sw updates.

Originally Posted by andree View Post
As a many-many-years-linux-using guy, I'm very much into helping spread maemo (I've even started moving my pretty-widely-used project from winmobile to qt)
That's great, I'm a big fan of Qt. :-)

Originally Posted by andree View Post
I really can't spend many hours daily searching for new forums, mailinglists, bugzilla reports etc. I respect you for your commitment because you can.
I want my device and I want it YESTERDAY. But I'm willing to wait until it's great, and just drool about it obsessively in the meantime

Originally Posted by andree View Post
What I would is a blog, like dog.kde.org.. Now there are many blogs, and for a maemo-new-comer, it's pretty hard to 1) find them, 2) know, which of the owners are real nokia-developers/credible writers, and which are fanboys.. Oh, I'm getting offtopic, stop.
A planet.maemo.org might not be such a bad idea, though I think that sort of stuff is already in 'news', it just doesn't seem to be too widely used... Might be something to start a Brainstorm on?
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