Mark Haury wrote:
[...]
> Every Linux handheld device that I've been interested
> in and followed has *required* periodic re-flashes of the OS, either to
> fix growing instability or to flash a new image that increases stability
> and/or hardware or software functionality.
This was true for my
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Thomas Waelti wrote:
> I would say the Maemo pattern has followed the Symbian pattern quite "well",
> including the maturity of the released software (first initial firmwares with
> some bugs, more mature releases with additional features later on: see
> Chinook
Thomas Waelti wrote:
>
> I reflashed the PalmOS and updated to slightly never version a few
> times (mostly .1 version increases, like 3.5.1 or so IIRC). PalmOS
> however was a VERY simple and limited OS. I had 3 different Palms
> overr the years. Normally, the upgrades just fixed some stability
>
With Windows Mobile, you almost never update - but not because of inherent
stability, but commercial issues: the device producer normally just buy a
certain version of WM for their device, but won't offer subsequent upgrades, so
you end up with the original version and are pretty much stuck. Had
Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:17:57PM -0700, Mark wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Henrik Madsen wrote:
>>
>>> If you have never had an issue with stability on Windows Mobile
>>> you are the blind person. Almost all producers of mobile phones
>>> are now leaving
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:17:57PM -0700, Mark wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Henrik Madsen wrote:
> >
> > If you have never had an issue with stability on Windows Mobile
> > you are the blind person. Almost all producers of mobile phones
> > are now leaving Windows Mobile and considerin
Marius Vollmer wrote:
> ext Mark writes:
>
>
>> What I said was that "I've never _heard_" of Windows Mobile devices
>> being reflashed like Linux devices.
>>
>
> I would change that to "Maemo" devices. Linux, the kernel, is certainly
> not to blame for a clogged up user land, and Maemo is
ext Mark writes:
> What I said was that "I've never _heard_" of Windows Mobile devices
> being reflashed like Linux devices.
I would change that to "Maemo" devices. Linux, the kernel, is certainly
not to blame for a clogged up user land, and Maemo is so different from
any other existing GNU-or-
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Henrik Madsen wrote:
>
> If you have never had an issue with stability on Windows Mobile
> you are the blind person. Almost all producers of mobile phones
> are now leaving Windows Mobile and considering Linux devices
> instead. Are you hired by Microsoft??
>
Yeah,
