andylockran wrote: > In all serious, can people stop recommending the freerunner.
This seems a bit of a strange request to me... > It's a sure way of annoying people - recommending an "iphone killer" > that doesn't make phone calls. I don't suggest it's an "iphone killer" anymore than I hear Shuttleworth calling Ubuntu an "OS X killer". If you did some research, or even just read my recommendation on the "Neo Freerunner" thread - you would see that it does make phone calls. In fact there at least four distributions that support phone calls via UI, I can only speak for the OpenMoko distro so far for reliability (I haven't tested the others yet), but it works fine for me. > It's a perfect example of "eyes bigger than" and has not yet evolved > into anything useful... My freerunner is useful - though defining what "useful" means is going to be a point of debate. Phone, SMS, Wifi, GPS, free software. useful to me. > In my opinion they should have focussed on getting the basics right, and > evolving it from there. The Basics are the hardware. they are solid. The software is "evolving" fast. > Now, don't get me wrong, it'll be a class act once it's stable and > release 1 is out of the door.. but having bought a neo1973 in July '07.. > well.. I'm a bit gutted. The Freerunner is sexy :) Try not to judge the Freerunner based on your experiences with the 1973, it sounds like a lot has changed :) > I knew it was a development model, and was hoping to write applications > to run ontop of the 'core'. it seems PyGTK is the way to do that. I'm looking at doing some config GUIs with it. > So.. don't but a neo until it stabilises - which I really hope it does - It has stabilised on the Freerunner. > Else £300 is alot to spend on a brick to post around friends. indeed. you should take a look at the 1973 stuff again and see if you can benefit from the freerunner stuff, I get the impression a lot has changed.. Regards, Tim [1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Distributions -- www.tdobson.net ---- If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now has two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
