When you start throwing around terms like FLOSS, you lose me. This is the level of detail that someone like Roger Sperberg gets into. I've not studied open source, I'm not a Linux techie, I'm not a dev. In all these senses, I come to the argument unarmed. You may fight amongst yourselves.
I agree with Mike vis a vis people fighting amoungst themselves.
But, I'd like to go one step further. Can we close this thread and those interested can start new ones? What I'd like to see is a constructive discussion about ways to fix the problems at the OS level, although that might be something that should live on one of the maemo.org sites instead of ITT.
This is one line I was hoping never to see applied to these devices. We're running Debian here, right? Not WinCE?
-j
Well, yes we are running Debian, but it is not imune to memory leaks. Rebooting is the simple way to solve the problem.
Now, since we are runnig Debian, you can open a console, type ps-ax and look at what processes are active, use top to find out which one gobbles memory and kill -9 to get rid of it. Is this what you wanted to know?
Yikes, I didn't mean for this topic to go off the map. I do appreciate the level of help that was offered, but I guess I didn't quite express the fact that my linux savvy was far below par. This may have opened things up to more levels than just telling me "Reboot- noob....it will get fixed later"
Anyway, it appears there is a lively group participating in this forum and that's always a good thing IMHO.
I own 3 different Zaurii. Don't get me started on the software and memory issues. Oh: and it corrupted flash cards as well.
The 770 is neither better nor worse. I miss the keyboard, I like bluetooth, wifi and the screen. I miss the extra memory. The linux software was neither better nor worse in quality, especially at the beginning.
Yikes, I didn't mean for this topic to go off the map.
I'll take the blame for that, with a comment I should have known would cause a fuss. Sorry, folks.
Originally Posted by Jerome
Now, since we are runnig Debian, you can open a console, type ps-ax and look at what processes are active, use top to find out which one gobbles memory and kill -9 to get rid of it. Is this what you wanted to know?
Well, I just figured out how to get into the shell This device is not only marketed to people who know how to use a prompt, though, and a more intelligent way to detect apps that are out of control and reign them in might be in order -- one that includes a non-command line UI.
