Milhouse
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2009-10-12
, 21:46
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@ London, UK
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#31
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2009-10-13
, 16:46
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#32
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2009-10-13
, 17:06
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@ Germany
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#33
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The problem now is, correct me if I'm wrong, that you can't easily see out of which repo the package in the package manager comes. You have "extras" but are these the safe or the unsafe extras..
A colour will probably help a lot! Don't know if it's possible to modify the package manager though.
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2009-10-13
, 17:24
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@ North Texas, USA
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#34
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The warning should really be phrased positive, e.g. "Feel free to play with this software, but be aware that..." And add the 'Restore factory image' instructions in there, doing so will scare more people away then any warning will.
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2009-10-18
, 09:15
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@ Cornwall, UK
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#35
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Welcome to the Developers-extras section of maemo.org.
Please note that all the applications and widgets in this area are still under development. They have been placed here so that volunteers can test them.
As such, these applications cannot be guranteed to be to bug-free, and installing them may cause your device to freeze, crash, or in rare cases become unstable. If you choose to go ahead and encounter problems, your device can usually be restored by a warm reboot (Turn off, turn back on) or a cold reboot (turn off, remove the battery, replace the battery and turn back on). In exceptional cases, it may be necessary to restore your device to the factory settings: this can be done by reinstalling the operating system (known as 'flashing the firmware'). For full details, go here: (Insert link here).
Development of these applications depends on people being willing to try them out and provide feedback. If you do install one of these items, please remember to return here and vote, providing feedback particularly on stability, smoothness, usefulness and user-friendliness.
Thank you, and welcome to the 'Extras-development-testing repository'
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2009-10-18
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@ England
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2009-10-22
, 08:25
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@ Germany
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#37
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I made the "mistake" yesterday, I enabled the dev repo and started installing programs, this, that, that, this.... The memory information tool says I have 2GB of memory, so who cares?
Until the moment that my phone froze.. 0 bytes free in root..
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2009-12-02
, 09:16
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#38
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This is a real issue - unless maemo intends to limit the number of applications available for download to under 233MB space in root, it is a design problem, as far as I can see.
Since other things besides installed applications can fill up the root tree (though they should not) perhaps the device could watch the filesystem and give a chance to abort writes when near end of space.
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2009-12-02
, 11:36
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@ Finland
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#39
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This is a real issue - unless maemo intends to limit the number of applications available for download to under 233MB space in root, it is a design problem, as far as I can see.
Since other things besides installed applications can fill up the root tree (though they should not) perhaps the device could watch the filesystem and give a chance to abort writes when near end of space.
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2009-12-02
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@ Praha, Czech Republic
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#40
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So this brings up a question, if root, or rootfs is running as is expected by Maemo architects, how much space is enough? I've got a new n900 that i've installed a few apps, mainly from the 'approved' repositories, and when I run df it shows over 70% in use for 'rootfs'. Is this expected and how much free space is needed before things start to fall apart?