[maemo-users] Repeat quetion : Diablo update to OS2008HE ? (Was: Software Choices for New Nokia 770?)

[From: David Grau Serra]

I am agree with you.

+ 1

David

> While I don't own a 700 or an 800, I have an n810, I'm watching what 
> Nokia does with these older models, are they going to require users 
> upgrade the hardware to get new apps, or are they going to support the 
> older hardware? If Nokia does not continue to support older hardware, 
> I'm not sure Nokia going to get any more of my money. $400 for a n810 
> is a lot to shell out when you can buy a small laptop, Acer, Asus, 
> etc. and have a system with just a tad larger footprint.
>
> Just my .02,
>
> Denis
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:58 PM, gary liquid <liquid at gmail.com 
> <mailto:liquid at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Fred,
>
>     From my perspective I'm not sure what would be blocking liqbase
>     from running on the 770.
>
>     I believe the only none standard things it uses are the XV library
>     and the XSP raw mouse information.
>     If you would like to run liqbase from the console and send me the
>     output I will be happy to give it a run through and see whats
>     going on.
>
>     I will be happy to attempt to get it running on all Nokia maemo
>     devices, and hopefully it would be a minor tweak :)
>
>     Gary
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>     On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Fred Pacquier
>     <fredp at dial.oleane.com <mailto:fredp at dial.oleane.com>> wrote:
>
>         Ryan Abel a écrit :
>         > On Oct 27, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Urivan Saaib wrote:
>         >> I've been playing with Diablo on my n770 for several
>         months. It has
>         >> been
>         >> fairly stable.
>         >
>         > No, you've been playing with Chinook. Diablo is not
>         available for the
>         > 770.
>
>         Well, this is a question I've meant to ask Quim for a while
>         now, so here
>         is my opportunity. I've asked it here before without an
>         answer, but some
>         threads on ITT have brought it back to light recently.
>
>         Despite the disparaging remarks by the Maemo team when
>         OS2008HE came out
>         ("end-of-the-line", "too much for the poor beast" etc.), quite
>         a few
>         people (including me) are satisfied with it breathing a new
>         life into
>         their old 770. Maemo Mapper in particular, a rare example of
>         commitment
>         to maintaining a native maemo app on all NIT platforms, works
>         just fine
>         on it.
>
>         The problem we are having now is that some recent apps, or
>         their Diablo
>         upgrades, fail to install or run, although they could be
>         really useful
>         on a home-bound 770 : to name a few, Canola, Maemo remote
>         (which also
>         uses EFL), or liqbase...
>
>         So, before the Fremantle wave definitely buries the 770
>         platform (and
>         maybe the N8x0 too), it would be really good to see a final update
>         bringing the main Diablo improvements to OS2008HE, so that it
>         can still
>         run the latest relevant apps.
>
>         Is there any chance this will happen ?
>
>         TIA,
>         fp
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