Eismaus | # 1 | 2007-10-31, 10:51 | Report

Hi,
i a new N800 not jet user.. I'm still waiting for the delivery.

I have been reading in this forum and other tablet sides for a while now, and i stumbled over a few words, I did not understand.

I thinks these words came with repositorities.
bora, mistral, binary, maemo

Whould someone please explaint what this is? Or where i could finde more infos about this?

Thanks
Eismaus

TA-t3 | # 2 | 2007-10-31, 11:26 | Report

'maemo' is the name of the whole software platform.
'bora' and 'mistral' are codenames for the software versions of the operating system/user environment: bora is the current version for OS2007 (N800) and mistral is for OS2006 (770). But many mistral packages will work also on OS2007, however if there's a bora version then that's what you should use.
'binary' in this context ususally means the installable application (as opposed to its source code, which is of interest for developers only).

lardman | # 3 | 2007-10-31, 11:27 | Report

http://maemo.org/community/wiki/codenames/

Eismaus | # 4 | 2007-10-31, 12:41 | Report

Thanks for the help and the links.
Its very helpfull!