Recommended image and kernel location (was: Re: Daily Snapshot Review 27 March 2008)

[Michael Shiloh]

My apologies. The "snapshots" directory is a bad place for anything 
static because it is deleted and rsync'd to buildhost every so often.

Copies of Kevin's recommendations are at

http://downloads.openmoko.org/recommended/

Comments, complaints, etc. always welcome.

Michael

Michael Shiloh wrote:
> Kevin's reviews are very useful, but sometimes the recommended image has 
> already been rotated out of buildhost.
> 
> I will keep a copy of the images Kevin recommends here:
> 
> http://downloads.openmoko.org/snapshots/recommended/
> 
> Kevin Dean wrote:
>> My full review can be found at
>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Snapshot_review/2008-03-27 and the list
>> of all reviews I've done at
>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Category:SnapshotReview.
>>
>> Today's image is a good one!
>>
>> It may not seem very obvious from my reviews since they show only
>> tiny, incrimental improvments as well as occasional large breakages,
>> the overall stability of the images has greatly improved. Taking an
>> image from mid-January, for instance, is quite a bit more unstable
>> than the images over the past few weeks have been.
>>
>> Today we see a few changes. Probably the biggest change is the
>> introduction of the "Add to Contacts" button in Dialer's call history.
>> This makes adding new contacts particularly easy.
>>
>> Secondly, today is the first time I've noticed that clicking on the "1
>> Missed Call" status box (or similar) actually CLOSES that box. This is
>> one thing that's always irked me but I've left it out (like other
>> things) because it works. :P Seeing that clicking the missed call box
>> doesn't require me to delete the missed call record made me quite
>> happy.
>>
>> Also, the keypad background changes have made it into the images, so
>> the dialer and the keypad will look a bit different. :)
>>
>> Finally, while it's not a change in the functionality of the software,
>> the kernel images have been split for the Neo (GTA01) and the
>> Freerunner (GTA02). The links in my review SHOULD point to the proper
>> image, but anyone pulling directly from buildhost should double-check
>> to avoid a download and flash that fails.
>>
>> My recommendation today is that users update to today's image
>> (http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily/neo1973/deploy/glibc/images/neo1973/OpenMoko-openmoko-devel-image-glibc-ipk-P1-Snapshot-20080327-fic-gta01.rootfs.jffs2) 
>>
>> and the most recent GTA01 kernel
>> (http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily/neo1973/deploy/glibc/images/neo1973/uImage-2.6.24+svnr4244-r4251-r5-fic-gta01.bin). 
>>
>>
>> -Kevin Dean
>>
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