Dave Neuer wrote:
The current hacker edition looks like the best candidate to become a
more continued solution. Some people here have got a deep look at it.
What do you think?
No, that's totally bogus: a binary-only distro that's supported by a
community which doesn't have access to the source? Give me a break.
Instead, how about Nokia get every bit of source used to build the
last IT 2006 release which it has permission (both internal and
external) to release in source form together in _one_ _repository_ and
then let the community maintain that.
That also looks like 'binary-only distro that's supported by a community
which doesn't have access to the source' if you really understood what
Quim said about opensourcing stuff. How it is better? The only
difference is old/dead codebase (and more current end-users without any
support).
I guess more community members will help maintaining something not
completely dead (i.e. os2007 for n770) then os2006, check
http://www.fedoralegacy.org/ for example.
The same push for opensourcing stuff can be targeted at os2007 codebase
too and may have similar chances but better result.
Additionally, keeping it
compatible with N800 OS releases would be challenging to say the least
(maybe Nokia employees could help w/ that little bit, like backporting
fixes to bugs in the public source).
That's where os2007 codebase would be better ;-)
Anything else, from both a end-user and a non-Nokia developer
perspective, IMO, is just crap.
Yes, but as it is, end users have no supported choice anyway.
Unsupported community maintained OS2006 or OS2007 is almost same to
them. OS2007 has advantage of newer codebase with some useful features
and bridging the gap i.e. more stuff intended for n800 running on their
n770.
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