Hi, Fairly new-term user of the Nokia N900 here, quite looking forward to the opportunity to bootstrap a brand-spanking new distribution onto it (although I do love Debian, but that particular flamewar seems to have been done already ;) ).
At any rate, I'm wondering if there's any general drive to ensure that MeeGo is IPv6-ready? It's possibly the thing that's most obviously lacking in maemo at the moment - at least to me! After writing this email, I'm going to spend the evening hacking kernels (and possibly firmware in general?) to get it enabled. I'm doing a talk on IPv6 in the home to my local LUG on Monday, so I'm up against a pretty tight deadline! But anyway. Linux has good, mature support for IPv6 and I can't possibly believe that enabling it by default (obviously, it could be disabled / compiled out in particular firmwares) would be likely to make a significant difference in terms of memory footprint or disc usage - although I'll be comparing whatever I come up with tonight with the stock kernels, so I can get some numbers on that if people are interested. IPv6 is becoming, if not widespread, at least a realistic possibility everywhere except the last mile; and I know an ISP or two that are working to fix that. What I'm looking at doing on my N900 is an IPv6-enabled kernel + userland, possibly with ipv6.ko not modprobe'd by default, with IPv6 connectivity - probably via a Teredo tunnel - and mobile IPv6 extensions over that if I can beat the scary userland that implies into submission. Ideally, such a setup could be done by installing a few packages - right now on maemo, it's going to involve a custom kernel at the very least. /Nick _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
