[maemo-developers] New developer tools and an Introduction

[From: Juha Kallioinen]

ext Acadia Secure Networks wrote:

> thanks for the helpful clarifications. I will make judicious use of red 
> pill mode on my operational N800 until either a) I obtain a spare n800 
> for experimental use, or b) the apps become stable enough to go into the 
> blue pill repository.

I can understand that. However, with these particular tools it's not 
that much a question of the applications not being stable enough for 
everyday use, but that most of them are only useful for and usable by 
people that are a bit more familiar with a linux/unix system. All of 
these tools require a terminal and some of them even want you to be root 
(tcpdump & hcidump at least).

I think that some of these tools like 'less' and 'nano' should be 
visible in the application manager, since they are useful for everyone. 
This requires a small change in the debian packaging and I'll put these 
on my todo-list.

Maybe I'm being a bit too 'Big Brotherly' with this approach, what do 
you think? :-)

Cheers,
  Juha

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Juha Kallioinen