Fwd: [H1900-port] Uninstalling useless packages

Hello all!!

It has been more than a week as I was mainly using OPIE on my h1915.
The overall impression for now is that the system is far away from
something usable. Despite the bootloader is fine and works very well,
the OPIE is not stable and crashes every time it founds a chance.
Maybe I have an unstable release of the kernel, environment or what so
ever but as an end-user I am not very interested in messing with
different kinds sorts or versions of something and expect some basic
functionality out of the box.

I liked the fact that there are so many applications and games
included with the system by default, but... About 10% of the available
tools wouldn't start at all. Another 5% of utilities and applications
are not applicable to my device, e.g. bluetooth and wifi stuff. But I
didn't find a possibility to uninstall the apps which are useless in
my case. About 15 to 20% of supplies tools and apps have serious
usability problems, so that I couldn't figure how to use them and
there were no "quick start" description for them.

And I think also that audio system of my device is not supported as
well. I couldn't make any voice notes or hear any noise from the
device.

Generally I'm quiet disappointed about the whole thing with with linux
on the handheld devices. The lack of support and community around it
makes me mostly struggling alone with my problems. I couldn't find any
useful documentation about the system too, making the whole experience
by clicking and seeing what's happening.

Despite these, the homepage of OPIE as well as the homepage of my
device on the handhelds.org looks like 10 years out of date and a hell
to navigate or find information. Reading the site news I got an
impression that the owners of handhelds.org are more busy with some
trademark issues with a bunch of GPE developers who wanted to left
their hosting and open their own.

So, the question of the day now. Is there any change to try GPE on my h1915?
Received on Thu Jul 19 2007 - 01:16:37 EDT