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Title: Why Doesn't Trolltech Release Ready-made Roms?
Post by: micklang on April 29, 2005, 11:53:55 am

Is Trolltech going to release a ready-to-go ROM that we can download and skip the heartache of getting a palmtop to actually be useful?

There are many flavors of ROMS-- for the most part, some work in different areas better than others, but other than besting each other with eye-candy, little is done on improving on each other's functionality.

I'm not a whiz-bang developer, but I like to tinker-- to me, a viable palmtop system should have iron-clad basics like:

Addressbook:  one that will sync with a tool or be able to import other formats
GUI sync:  like Qtopia
Calculator
Package Manager:  one that won't crash every time

So far, I've tried out the Sharp ROMS, Cacko, TheKompany-- some work great and other's waste user time.

When I loaded the latest OpenZaurus 'Opie', the Addressbook works with Qtopia!  Great!  I cannot load a single new application however, as it complains that qpe-base isn't found.

TheKompany had a great ROM-- damned system would not sync with Qtopia and addressbook wasn't compatible.  

I payed out a lot of dough for this stuff, as well as for a never-ending supply of broken stylii (my daughter broke two for me) as well as SD and CF cards & media readers-- it makes you want to step back and decide if 'having it your way' is really worth it.

Any comment on Trolltech's releases?

Mick

Title: Why Doesn't Trolltech Release Ready-made Roms?
Post by: iamasmith on April 29, 2005, 12:06:28 pm

I think it's a commercial agreement between Trolltech and Sharp saying that Trolltech won't do this... I thought I saw something on a thread about this but I may be wrong.

lpotter, can you talk about this?

- Andy

Title: Why Doesn't Trolltech Release Ready-made Roms?
Post by: Mickeyl on April 29, 2005, 12:20:33 pm

Uhm... why should they? TT doesn't sell Qtopia to end customers, they sell it to companies. Free ROMs aren't generating any revenue for them which is why they spend not many resources and amibitions on that.

Title: Why Doesn't Trolltech Release Ready-made Roms?
Post by: tumnus on April 29, 2005, 12:22:55 pm

So you haven't seen this website then:
http://www.qtopia.net/modules/users/downloads.php (http://www.qtopia.net/modules/users/downloads.php) ?

Or this thread:
https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=11738 (https://www.oesf.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=11738) ?

Title: Why Doesn't Trolltech Release Ready-made Roms?
Post by: Mickeyl on April 29, 2005, 04:21:45 pm

Sorry, but these ROMs can't be called "ready-to-go". I really admire what we did in the good old OZ 3.2 days, but they're far from ready to go.