Re: The University of São Paulo's intent to join Openmoko development

[tb]

Well to me SHR unstable was always by far the most usable and stable
distribution out there

2009/7/16 Warren Baird <wjbaird at alumni.uwaterloo.ca>

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>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak <
> seba.dos1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 7/16/09, Warren Baird <wjbaird at alumni.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>> > I hope you are are right that eventually the software will be in better
>> > shape than the hardware.   I must admit that in my less optimistic
>> moments,
>> > I wonder about that.   The progress towards a stable, easily usable
>> distro
>> > for the FR has been slow.
>>
>> I must disagree. SHR is progressing really fast, almost every day
>> there is work on it or FSO, which SHR uses.  There are also many
>> initiatives unvisible from normal user's point of view, but
>> development moves forward very quickly.
>>
>> There will be soon opimd integration, SHR Installer, and few other
>> things. And after that - UI dbusification will allow everyone to make
>> use of phone apps in his own scripts, which can bring UI consistense
>> really easly.
>>
>> I feel that *now* FR software is much better than every time before.
>> And it seems it still will be enhanced, just give it some time ;)
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>
>
> Hmm - maybe I need to try SHR when I get my phone back from it's
> buzz-fixing journey.   I must admit that only end-user experiences I've had
> with the FR have been with OM 2008, QtE and QtEI, and the OM2009 TRs.
>
> I would certainly agree that the software stack is making progress.
> However, in the course of the year I've had an FR, I've seen it go from
> completely unusable and unstable software (OM 2008) to relatively usable (as
> a phone) software (QtE) to relatively stable and slightly usable (OM2009
> TRs).   To me, that seems like slow progress...   In my opinion, it seems
> like we're only now starting to approach the point we should have been at
> when the FR was released.
>
> If SHR is substantially improved compared to the OM2009 TRs, then perhaps I
> need to withdraw my statement.    That would in fact make me very happy!
>
> Warren
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