Jim Morris wrote: > Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: >> 2008/7/21 Jim Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> I just flashed Qtopia (Because my up-to-date 2007.2 wouldn't start x >>>> anymore, lost sound etc etc). >> Is there a downside to Qtopia over 2007.2? >> > > It seems a tad more stable to me, but I spent a lot of time on 2007.2, just > to have to blow it away > when it finally updated itself into oblivion :( I couldn't even backup the > image due to problems > with the upload feature from dfu-util (see other postings on that). > > I haven't spent much time with qtopia yet. I haven't tried the phone stuff on > it yet either. > > I think this is really a matter of personal taste, some people will prefer > the 2007.2 UI and some > Qtopia. I got very frustrated with 2007.2 I found it unintuitive, and the > lack of a keyboard I could > see was annoying. > > It is a great testament to Openmoko for building a device where you can try 3 > or 4 different > platforms, and choose the one you like! > > Of course ASU is meant to offer the best of both worlds, but it is way too > unstable for my liking at > the moment, but I'll be keeping a close eye on it. > > One thing I did like about 2007.2 was the ability to upgrade via opkg, even > though it did eventually > bite me in the butt. Not sure if Qtopia has the same ease of upgrading > without flashing.
Yes and no. It doesn't have a opkg/ipkg feed, but have an easily scp'd Qtopia tarball. Will probably work on some kind of package feed for Qtopia as a whole, until our make packages process works. > > Right now I have to go back into /etc/... and add all the customizations and > fixes I had before so > everything works again. > > YMMV > -- Lorn 'ljp' Potter Software Engineer, Systems Group, Trolltech, a Nokia company _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
