| I suggest you look at the OS2007 Hacker Edition firmware. It's the next best thing to official support (considering that it is both sponsored by and sanctioned by Nokia).
Indeed - I have looked at it and am glad it exists, but it seems that enough things don't work that it isn't real support. As with most open source things, if I had enough time, I could go in and try to fix it, but it isn't worth it for obsolete hardware, which is the problem. Companies can afford to pay people to support obsolete hardware, but there is obviously a disconnect within Nokia and the Maemo community.
I get the impression that the instruction sets and CPU features are different and nobody wants to try to backport some of the media stuff. Perhaps there are real performance reasons why the N800 is much better, but that doesn't have to make me happy.
I bought a Nokia N770 Internet Tablet because it was a nifty little "open" Linux machine. It couldn't do much, but it was open, so the promise of an amazing device was there. Unfortunately, it was abandoned by Nokia as soon as the N800 came out, even though the devices are similar. No more OS updates, application development has largely dried up, and the developer community has moved on.
On the other hand, I will be able to install Mac OS X 10.5 on Macs that are much older than the N770, because the Apple wants to keep those machines in service and their owners happy.
I don't want to defend Apple on what they did with the iPhone, but Nokia is not an open source hero, nor does openness guarantee a great product.
I agree with this. I have two SonicWalls in my lab and VPN to the one in my office. They're more expensive that the original author would like, but they're great and completely trouble free.
With a SonicWall, you can map NAT-addressed LAN machines to their own WAN IP addresses, so you can protect multiple servers and allow ssh access, etc. Some models even come with a DMZ to keep externally-used servers outside the firewall but still protected (though I've never used one with the feature). Cheap NAT routers don't have anywhere near the same feature set as a real firewall appliance.
Get a ReplayTV instead. There are several Mac-friendly tools that can pull the MPEG-2 files off it over the network. You can even make your Mac/PC act like a networked ReplayTV and have the ReplayTV pull video from it and show it on your TV. You can play them using Apple's MPEG-2 codec for QuickTime (costs $20 or something) or VLC. With the QuickTime codec, you can convert the files to DV and then edit them in iMovie or Final Cut (Express) easily.
Note: I only have experience with the 4000 and 5000 models, so perhaps the newer ones break all this, but I don't think so.
Since it can apparently bridge the WiFi and WAN port, it should work just fine. It won't replace your normal WiFi to cable modem router in that case...
Just as a followup, I've had no luck getting Gentoo's AMD64 Linux install to work. It stalls right after the initrd load. I was able to get x86 Mandrake 9.2 to install, but the ethernet (Via Rhine II) doesn't work, not does X, though I presume both are fixable with enough effort.
I bought one of these on Thursday at Best Buy. Haven't had much time to play with it, but it seems like a very solid machine with a nice screen. Moving windows and resizing them is less responsive than on my 17" PowerBook, which is not a good sign, given the much higher Athlon64 clock speed. For the moment, I'll blame Windows.
The machine has all the features I need, though I'd like Bluetooth. The 802.11 works great (I don't have a.11g base station, but the.11b mode is fine).
I'm looking into 64-bit Linux distros to install to see how well that works...
No idea about battery life yet, but it gets pretty warm on my lap!
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| I suggest you look at the OS2007 Hacker Edition firmware. It's the next best thing to official support (considering that it is both sponsored by and sanctioned by Nokia).
Indeed - I have looked at it and am glad it exists, but it seems that enough things don't work that it isn't real support. As with most open source things, if I had enough time, I could go in and try to fix it, but it isn't worth it for obsolete hardware, which is the problem. Companies can afford to pay people to support obsolete hardware, but there is obviously a disconnect within Nokia and the Maemo community.
I get the impression that the instruction sets and CPU features are different and nobody wants to try to backport some of the media stuff. Perhaps there are real performance reasons why the N800 is much better, but that doesn't have to make me happy.
I bought a Nokia N770 Internet Tablet because it was a nifty little "open" Linux machine. It couldn't do much, but it was open, so the promise of an amazing device was there. Unfortunately, it was abandoned by Nokia as soon as the N800 came out, even though the devices are similar. No more OS updates, application development has largely dried up, and the developer community has moved on.
On the other hand, I will be able to install Mac OS X 10.5 on Macs that are much older than the N770, because the Apple wants to keep those machines in service and their owners happy.
I don't want to defend Apple on what they did with the iPhone, but Nokia is not an open source hero, nor does openness guarantee a great product.
That's the funniest thing I've read on Slashdot in a while! Good one!
ReplayTV is also owned by D&M, so those of us that own and love ReplayTVs should hope D&M keeps it going!
I agree with this. I have two SonicWalls in my lab and VPN to the one in my office. They're more expensive that the original author would like, but they're great and completely trouble free.
With a SonicWall, you can map NAT-addressed LAN machines to their own WAN IP addresses, so you can protect multiple servers and allow ssh access, etc. Some models even come with a DMZ to keep externally-used servers outside the firewall but still protected (though I've never used one with the feature). Cheap NAT routers don't have anywhere near the same feature set as a real firewall appliance.
Get a ReplayTV instead. There are several Mac-friendly tools that can pull the MPEG-2 files off it over the network. You can even make your Mac/PC act like a networked ReplayTV and have the ReplayTV pull video from it and show it on your TV. You can play them using Apple's MPEG-2 codec for QuickTime (costs $20 or something) or VLC. With the QuickTime codec, you can convert the files to DV and then edit them in iMovie or Final Cut (Express) easily.
Note: I only have experience with the 4000 and 5000 models, so perhaps the newer ones break all this, but I don't think so.
Since it can apparently bridge the WiFi and WAN port, it should work just fine. It won't replace your normal WiFi to cable modem router in that case...
Just as a followup, I've had no luck getting Gentoo's AMD64 Linux install to work. It stalls right after the initrd load. I was able to get x86 Mandrake 9.2 to install, but the ethernet (Via Rhine II) doesn't work, not does X, though I presume both are fixable with enough effort.
I bought one of these on Thursday at Best Buy. Haven't had much time to play with it, but it seems like a very solid machine with a nice screen. Moving windows and resizing them is less responsive than on my 17" PowerBook, which is not a good sign, given the much higher Athlon64 clock speed. For the moment, I'll blame Windows.
.11g base station, but the .11b mode is fine).
The machine has all the features I need, though I'd like Bluetooth. The 802.11 works great (I don't have a
I'm looking into 64-bit Linux distros to install to see how well that works...
No idea about battery life yet, but it gets pretty warm on my lap!
I believe the Earth Simulator (#1 on the list) is a bunch of NEC multiprocessor vector machines connected by a studly interconnection network.
Earth Simulator page in English: http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/eng/
But that was probably CUPS doing that for you...