Thread: Why does this thing crash *at all*?
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lbattraw is offline lbattraw
2007-02-23 , 21:26
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Originally Posted by dbec10 View Post
Are you guys serious? The original poster is correct. Be honest with yourselves.

some of you have made the postings yourselves on this very forum. Are you saying that the 3 second reboot and the Nightly automatic reboots are all because you loaded crappy software on your systems?
In some cases it's just user error/configuration. I accidentally upgraded a system package that caused the 3 second reboot (twice!). Fortunately they marked it so it was no longer automatically included in upgrades. Another reason for it was due to a bug in the flash filsystem code. The nightly reboots are likely related to immature software support for the DSP. It's already been fixed in the next version of the OS that will be released shortly (next month maybe?).
Originally Posted by dbec10 View Post
Look at the Windows Mobiles and the Palms. The windows mobiles are bricks. As long as you don't run multiple apps at once they don't crash. The Palms are the opposite. They have excellent software but the hard ware causes problems. But nothing like what I've read on this forum.

You guys flash those n800s more than a flashlight.

Be honest. They are not stable.
Are you kidding about Windows Mobile? I can understand the Palms having problems running multiple applications since licensing prevents them from doing real multitasking, but I digress. We're really comparing apples to oranges here. Although Maemo is "Linux", we're working in a completely new environment with new applications, on new hardware. Windows Mobile and Palm have had years and years of stabilization, ditto for desktop Linux. If you took an exact copy of Ubuntu and somehow put it on a PDA you would likely get similar stability. I think you underestimate the difficulty of working in a embedded system environment where things are only marginally like a desktop. With time things will (and have!) get a lot better, and we'll be able to look back on the days of relative instability and laugh.

Larry