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fanoush is offline fanoush
2007-09-20 , 13:41
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#6
Originally Posted by johnkzin View Post
4) Segregated internal memory

I can't think of a decent reason why flasher erases user data and user applications. Flashing system memory should not affect user data and user memory. /home/user and whatever is the equivalent of /usr/local should be in a separate memory space that doesn't get touched/harmed by flasher when you upgrade the OS.
This should be better rephrased as 'Ability to update/upgrade OS via package management, not via flashing monolithic firmware image'. This feature is coming in some future release. This is how linux distributions for PC work.

You really don't want segregated internal memory and handle situation when one of those parts is full but the other one has free space. Also technically there is no difference between system packages and user supplied ones so you can't draw line easily. For separate memory space you can use use SD/MMC card.
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