THe official release of the new OS for Nokia 770 devices is out. I’ve only been playing with it for a few hours so far, but I have to admit I’m not as blown away as I was hoping to be. There’s a bunch of really interesting great stuff in the new release. The Google talk/messenger integration is fantastic, virtual memory is supported now, the package manger runs against live online repositories. All fantastic stuff!
However there were a bunch of stability problems with OS2006 that I was hoping to see cleared up by official release. In the fooling around I’ve done so far it doesn’t look like they have been. The browser in particular still causes a lot of problems. I’ve had it crash a few times on me while viewing the “tableteer” content that seems to have been created specifically for the 770 device. The package manager was working a bit flakey for me. It had cached a somehow corrupted version of the openssh packages and I had to blow them away via the command line and redownload them to get them working. I even had the device as a whole spontaneously reboot on me when I tried to pull up the streaming audio tool (which has worked since, that seems to have been just a one time thing).
There’s definitely great stuff in there. Fantastic stuff! But it needs some work on the stability and consistency end. I would love to see a point release or two in the next month aimed at heading off these stability issues.
Would you please publish how you installed OpenSSH on OS2006.
OpenSSH is not showing up in repository.maemo.org
I’ll try
http://maemo.org/maemowiki/InstallSsh
But I’m getting the corrupted downloads also.
Is it the 770 or Linux that’s the problem?
I don’t remember how I did it actually, it was quite a while ago. I don’t remember anything about corrupted packages however. Maybe there are server issues with the site the packages are hosted on.