On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Dave Sherohman <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So... As someone who hasn't been following Diablo, doesn't use a mail > reader on my N800, already has my accounts and service providers set up, > never sees Chinese characters outside of spam, and rarely/never zooms > web pages, is there any reason for me to bother flashing my tablet (for > the last time?) today instead of waiting for Diablo + 1? Visually, the absence of double-taps on the vkb and jerky finger panning in the browser are both big improvements that I noticed immediately. Other than that, you won't notice huge changes. Whether the seamless updates matter to you when going from major version to major version, it is certainly better having a more robust application manager that is capable of such things. I have already been impressed at how it handled reinstalling my apps after flashing and failing gracefully on the apps that were missing from diablo repositories. It is definitely more solid. Also, while Diablo will run the vast majority of apps built for Chinook today, the same cannot be said for future apps built for Diablo running on Chinook since they may require versions of libraries that got updated in Diablo; particularly those requiring libssl as security patches may make it into 0.9.8 (diablo) that won't make it into 0.9.7 (chinook). You also may have to wait a *long* time for another updated firmware to come out whereas you probably won't have to wait long for updates (feature, security and bugfixes) to start trickling through via SSU. In the end, no one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to reflash. But in my experience, after making a backup just before reflashing and letting the first-boot process restore it after, the reflash was the least painful that I have encountered so far. /Mike _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
