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2007-06-24
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2007-07-20
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2007-07-20
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2007-07-20
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2007-07-20
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Right now it is pretty trivial to port ncurses/command line type apps, so you see a lot of direct ports of stuff like ctorrent. It takes considerably more effort to port anything with a gui, as it generally needs to be "hildonized"/addapted to the N800's non standard UI. As to the memory/horse power issue, I have run Torrent clients on far less capable devices. There are even some wireless routers that come with Torrent clients built in (usually the ones that have a USB port for NAS type applications as well).
Right now, it is all about convincing developers that they should spend some of their free time on porting x, y and z to the N800. A lot of developers seem to like to spend their spare coding time playing around with fun stuff like porting an emulator or writing a music player, but nobody ever seems to want to develop a word processor. So, multiple years after the introduction of Maemo, we have Quake 2, Mame, NES and FreeCiv, but we still don't have a decent word processor...
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2007-07-20
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2007-07-20
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Well, a smart torrent client would cache the data in ram until it has a reasonable chunk to write. A lot of the more mature desktop clients have this option. The only problem being that the N800 and particularly the 770 are ram challenged devices. I hope the next generation of hardware doesn't slack on the ram and has a scalable/higher clockrate and video adapter decent enough to chew through decoding high bitrate/resolution video.
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2007-07-25
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Well, a smart torrent client would cache the data in ram until it has a reasonable chunk to write. A lot of the more mature desktop clients have this option. The only problem being that the N800 and particularly the 770 are ram challenged devices. I hope the next generation of hardware doesn't slack on the ram and has a scalable/higher clockrate and video adapter decent enough to chew through decoding high bitrate/resolution video.
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2007-07-25
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rob.