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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / When Is Openzaurus Going To Be Ready?

« on: August 15, 2005, 04:39:36 pm »

Oh and dont complain unless your going to volunteer and help.
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So, basically, only programmers should be using OpenZaurus?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / When Is Openzaurus Going To Be Ready?

« on: August 15, 2005, 04:33:54 pm »

So, when is OpenZaurus going to stop adding new kernels and featurs and make an operating system that actually works?
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As soon as you stop complaining and fix the bugs...
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My point was not that there are bugs - all programs have bugs - but that the number of bugs has increased over the past two years.  This is the opposite to every other free software program I have used.  What would be the point of me fixing some bugs in the current release if the next release just adds a whole bunch more?

Some projects avoid this problem by having stable and unstable branches.  The gung-ho developers add features to the unstable branch, while the old hands fix the bugs and make stable releases for the public.  Now, maybe OpenZaurus doesn't have enough developers to maintain two branches, but in that case there should be one branch - stable - and a new feature shouldnt be allowed into it if it causes major system instability.

I mean, two years work and this project is less usable than it was before.  If you use a metric like  lines of code or new features added then maybe there has been much progress, but if you use a metric like usability or number of non-dev users then there has been *negative* progress.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / When Is Openzaurus Going To Be Ready?

« on: August 15, 2005, 02:09:44 pm »

Two years ago I bought a SL-5500 Zaurus.  I installed OpenZaurus on it because it had a newer kernel and more features than the default Sharp ROM, and more importantly the Sharp ROM was abandonware, while OpenZaurus was still under active development.  However, OpenZaurus was very buggy, so I switched back to the Sharp ROM.

A couple of months ago I thought, well, they've been developing it for 2 years, they must have fixed those bugs by now, so I tried again.  Again, it had a much newer kernel, and a great list of new features.  But it wouldn't even install.  I looked at the comments on the website.  Half of them said "it doesnt install for me either" and the other half said "it crashes whenever I hit a certain a key".

So, when is OpenZaurus going to stop adding new kernels and featurs and make an operating system that actually works?