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Model Specific Forums => Gemini PDA => Gemini PDA - Linux => Topic started by: DonOregano on June 26, 2018, 06:40:06 am

Title: Differences between TP1 and TP2
Post by: DonOregano on June 26, 2018, 06:40:06 am

If I understand correctly there was a Technical Preview 2 of Debian released on the 22nd of June, but I have been unable to find any information about the differences between TP1 and TP2.
Should I reflash, or is a TP1 followed by a dist-upgrade and a kernel update the same as TP2?

Sources:
Planet Computers news: http://support.planetcom.co.uk/index.php/Main_Page (http://support.planetcom.co.uk/index.php/Main_Page)
Gemian wiki: https://github.com/gemian/gemini-keyboard-a.../wiki/DebianTP2 (https://github.com/gemian/gemini-keyboard-apps/wiki/DebianTP2)

Is there a developer channel somewhere where things like this are discussed? The #gemini-pda irc channel I would assume to be mainly about Android.

Title: Differences between TP1 and TP2
Post by: Bob Ham on June 26, 2018, 07:20:24 am

Quote from: DonOregano

The #gemini-pda irc channel I would assume to be mainly about Android.

In my experience, it's mostly about GNU/Linux.

Title: Differences between TP1 and TP2
Post by: Adam Boardman on June 26, 2018, 07:28:20 am

Don as the TP2 page you linked says: "This is basically just TP1 + all the updates."

The reasons you might want to re-flash is that it has new partitions layout allowing tri(quad*) boot: Bootloader (https://github.com/gemian/gemini-keyboard-apps/wiki/Bootloader), which is handy if you want to try out new kernels that might fail and still get back to a working system with a different key combination, or if you want to try out sailfish etc.

* - quad if you include recovery.

Title: Differences between TP1 and TP2
Post by: bard on June 26, 2018, 07:28:45 am

Quote from: Bob Ham

Quote from: DonOregano

The #gemini-pda irc channel I would assume to be mainly about Android.

In my experience, it's mostly about GNU/Linux.

I can confirm this. Not a lot of Android talk.