Re: Freerunner ships with unsupported release? Why?
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 03:52:51 Ron K. Jeffries wrote: The Wiki says, in part: Choosing a distribution Official/current. As of December 2008, the phones ship with Om 2007.2 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2007.2. It is not supported by Openmoko Inc. anymore. The branch currently supported by Openmoko Inc. is Om 2008.12 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2008.12_Update ~~ I'm puzzled why OpenMoko ships phones with a distribution that's no longer supported. --- Ron K. Jeffries A friend of mine received his revA6 Freerunner in January and afaik it was shipped wirth Om2008.x. Because of the boot time I believe it was 2008.12 but I haven't seen it myself... He just told me about the black illume theme. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
RE: Freerunner ships with unsupported release? Why?
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 03:52:51 Ron K. Jeffries wrote: The Wiki says, in part: Choosing a distribution Official/current. As of December 2008, the phones ship with Om 2007.2 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2007.2. It is not supported by Openmoko Inc. anymore. The branch currently supported by Openmoko Inc. is Om 2008.12 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2008.12_Update ~~ I'm puzzled why OpenMoko ships phones with a distribution that's no longer supported. --- Ron K. Jeffries A friend of mine received his revA6 Freerunner in January and afaik it was shipped wirth Om2008.x. Because of the boot time I believe it was 2008.12 but I haven't seen it myself... He just told me about the black illume theme. If he didnt tell you about the initial harsh ping, then for sure it wasn't Om 2007.x ;-) regards Juan Lucas ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Freerunner ships with unsupported release? Why?
The Wiki says, in part: Choosing a distribution Official/current. As of December 2008, the phones ship with Om 2007.2 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2007.2. It is not supported by Openmoko Inc. anymore. The branch currently supported by Openmoko Inc. is Om 2008.12 http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Om_2008.12_Update ~~ I'm puzzled why OpenMoko ships phones with a distribution that's no longer supported. --- Ron K. Jeffries ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Freerunner ships with unsupported release? Why?
On Mar 17, 2009, at 19:52 , Ron K. Jeffries wrote: The Wiki says, in part: Choosing a distribution Official/current. As of December 2008, the phones ship with Om 2007.2. It is not supported by Openmoko Inc. anymore. The branch currently supported by Openmoko Inc. is Om 2008.12 I would imagine that this is because, like many electronics products, the devices shipped from OM with what was the current firmware at the time, but has since been deprecated. It's difficult if not impossible to expect them to get their distributors to flash all the stock they have on their shelves to the latest version and then go back and do it again in 3 months when an even newer version is out. The distributor I bought my GTA02 from here in San Francisco is a neat little co-working space just a few blocks from my apartment. They have only a vague idea of what's in the box. Somebody knows somebody who's involved in the OM project and convinced them to become a stockist. So I had no problem paying them and getting the device from them, but they're a bunch of web designers and marketing people and it's just silly to expect them to know how to flash an embedded Linux device. My plans for the first evening i had it were to do the unboxing and then flash it to the latest firmware. Believe it or not, but this is actually a good problem to have because it indicates that OpenMoko is shipping in volume through a distributor network rather than just handfuls of systems from their own factory. Steve ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
