Re: N900 Specifications
 

from:
http://mobile-review.com/review/noki...-n900-en.shtml
http://mobile-review.com/review/imag.../scr/scr14.jpg

Any reasons why the apps space is so small?
Hopefull we don't go back to a 256MB internal storage space for the / fs, tell me we do have a full 32GB!!

Re: N900 Specifications
 

Because he's using an older build with a different partition arrangement.

Re: N900 Specifications
 

The internal memory, with 32G, is mounted in /home/ ?

Re: N900 Specifications
 

The current layout as I understand it (all pre-release specifications are subject to change, of course):

32GB eMMC

• 768MB of swap
• "Over" 1GB of ext3 mounted on /opt
• Remaining space mounted on /home/user/$MYDOCS as FAT32

256MB NAND

• Bootloader
• Kernel
• rootfs

MicroSD

• FAT32 partition

Re: N900 Specifications
 

ugh, i truely wish that some regulatory office would slap microsoft into including a open, unpatented FS in future os's, and pushed out ASAP as a update to existing ones, and make sure it follows the specs to a t, both present and future, no extensions or omissions...

Re: N900 Specifications
 

Wait a tic... How is this going to help applications ? Don't tell me we have to shove everything in /opt...

Re: N900 Specifications
 

After watching Peters videos, couple of questions came to mind..

How is notifications handled. ie if im in the browser and an IM or tweet comes in, will something pop up like the Pre?

Im guessing the usb is host, so can i just plug in a usb key and it will show up as mass storage?

Re: N900 Specifications
 

Thanks.

A posibility to format 32G internal memory on ext2/ext3 ?

Re: N900 Specifications
 

Presumably yes (unless someone finally produces a realistic unionfs for Linux and makes it available as a module on Maemo).

But that isn't so bad, icons and desktop file in /usr/share and application code, images, translations in /opt/application.

This is all conjecture though, as Nokia haven't announced yet how they intend developers to use /opt (although it's being left a little late!)

Re: N900 Specifications
 

Yep, the word "support" is probably the most misused word in tech support, in my experience. Even the people who use it frequently don't understand what they are saying.

What it usually means is, "hey, you may be able to do that, and more power to you if you do, but we aren't going out of our way to help you and we take no responsibility for how well you do it."

People misinterpret it thus: "well, you don't support it, so you obviously oppose it," like we were talking some sort of political process. It doesn't mean that. Often, technicians themselves use this line of reasoning to chase away people who are trying to do something, like "we told you we don't support that, and if you are having problems now, it's your own fault" as if people trying to do it are somehow immoral.

Users who do something that isn't supported are perfectly free to do so, but they can't expect help from a company that has announced that it won't help. That is all that "we don't support that" means.