>Sometime soon, V.16 will be "released" and become the stable release:
>our thanks to all who have been testing in advance: it will be the best
>yet, me thinks...
>We plan another release, v.17, probably for middle to end of next week.
>It will probably be based on 2.4.0-test9, which seems to be fixing lots
>of problems introduced in -test8 that we've been struggling with in V.16.
>We don't forsee updating the kernel again until after ALS and the
wearables
>conference in Atlanta. We'll likely spin a few user partitions and/or
>fix bugs in the base v.17 after v.17 is out. The v.17 release will likely
>have the screen rotated by default: I dunno if I'll have the rotation
>extension done by then to allow for dynamic reconfiguration or not.
>We'll spend the remaining time trying to integrate whatever nice goodies
>people have, both ours and others, for demoing. We're going to presume
>for the purposes of the ALS demo that we have 32meg iPAQ's (I don't think
>we have time to do two /usr/local setups, and we need better packaging
>technology).
>Looking at all this, I think it likely that apps we don't have in hand
>by around the end of next week probably won't make it for ALS, by the
>time everything gets all tested and shaken down. This isn't to say that
>some late goodie that can go in easily won't happen, just that we have
>experience in kitting and it does take time.... Please let me/the list
>know if you have a particular item you think would be good to demo at
>these conferences....
> - Jim
Suggestion: change the name of v.17 to v.20 for the shows. It sounds
better.
Tom
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