Hello h4100-port,
Unofficial Familiar 0.8.4 snapshot for h4000 was released as a proof
of concept to stir community attention and participation. At the time
of release, I received mild criticism from Familiar maintainers for
releasing something "unofficial", yet calling it "Familiar". For more
than a year after the release, the fate of h4000 patches is not settled,
nor even it is clear when the next Familiar release will be done. At
the same time, the unofficial release grew very old, with many issues
known for it have been fixed in newer kernel versions and in other
distros.
So, availability of the unsupported, old release in question means
that new people regularly will face artificial issues and failures
trying to run Linux on their handheld, with resulting frustration and
dissatisfaction with the Linux. As a community maintainer of h4000
Linux, I find such situation dissatisfactory itself. So, Unofficial
Familiar 0.8.4 release for h4000 has been removed from downloads.
If you're interested in running Linux on h4000, consider other
options, like other distros, or working on Familiar support yourself.
P.S.
As the downloads were hosted on SF.net, which doesn't really delete
releases, it is still can be uncovered and downloaded - for people who
really need it. Note that I don't have any more specifics here.
-- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmiscml_at_gmail.comReceived on Sat Sep 29 2007 - 09:27:02 EDT
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