Thread: Repositories and Downloads confusing! Fremantle? Diablo? OS2008? -testing? i386? What works where?
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livefreeordie is offline livefreeordie
2010-02-01 , 16:52
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Originally Posted by oldpmaguy View Post
I expect I will be told the party line, that "if you don't know what you're doing, you should stay out of the repositories", but I think that is a weak excuse and just another example of exclusionary thinking. If the N900 is about freedom of use for its owners, then it should be made more accessible, not less, to make that freedom of use a reality. And when I cannot even find a simple explanation of what the different repositories mean...
Certainly you should not "stay out of the repositories", but what does it have to do with freedom when beginners are told to avoid the development repository for their own good?

The only repository that beginners would actually enjoy using is listed on the N900 by default. They don't need to come here and read anything. However, if you actually start reading the development documentation, you will very quickly understand how the releases are named.

You had a good point about longer explanations and screenshots, but that's it.
Last edited by livefreeordie; 2010-02-01 at 16:56.