On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Gary<gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mark wrote: >> That's an excuse (and a poor one), not a reason. When they never get >> around to actually finishing the OS or software for the N9X0, you'll >> be hearing "I told you so"... >> > > Mobile processors are is going through upgrade cycles much faster than > the desktop and server processor market. 1st and 2nd gen iPhone users > can't record videos like the 3 GS -- why? It's probably a matter of > changing a config file to allow it on older hardware but can it handle > the workload well enough that it won't furstrate a few million end > users? I can run Windows 7 on a seven year old DELL notebook but do you > think can play the latest video games on it? Or even games from 5-7 > years ago? Probably not. So if you'd like to develop your own Freemantle > port for N8X0 and N700 tablets we can all help you QA your efforts and > file lots of bugs for modern software that can't run efficiently on > legacy hardware. > > -Gary > _______________________________________________ That's a straw-man fallacy. If an N800 can run "real" Debian (and it definitely can), then leaving it out of Freemantle is inexcusable. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
