Comments on: Another word on application catalogues – tutorial

By: SMAr2wo

SMAr2wo — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:20:59 +0000

There is some app. for Yahoo Messenger IM to make videocalls (or at least calls)and transfer files?? I had Slick (on n95) and Fring. but there are .sis (symbian app) app., not compatibile with maemo. Old OS, old phone (my ex n95 8GB )but better!! VoIP client Y! is very very poor! I hate official nokia’s developers cose they forgot about N900! …

By: Elie

Elie — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:50:10 +0000

what’s the problem with amsn guys I am not being able to install it on my n900..is there any solution.10x.

By: walid_jami

walid_jami — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 03:45:11 +0000

gooddd

By: Maciej Jablonski

Maciej Jablonski — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:06:43 +0000

@Aboubakr:
.sis files are for Symbian and Nokia N900 is really far from Symbian, at this point there is no way to install such application and as far as I know making emulation environment may be hard to achieve and may eat up lot of system resources, I think there is no point in making this, porting applications is easier.

By: Aboubakr

Aboubakr — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:01:30 +0000

Is there really no way to install sis applications on Nokia N900?

By: Deafboy

Deafboy — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:45:35 +0000

“Additionally I wouldn’t call maemo.org an offical repository per se. Sure, the site might be hosted by Nokia, but the Q&A process and the development is mainly done by people from within the community.”

- I trust maemo.org comunity even more than nokia itself
And without testing repository there is so little usefull aps.
Lets say midnight commander or mplayer…

By: Nokia N900 free Contour Nerv theme

Nokia N900 free Contour Nerv theme — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:54:00 +0000

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By: Maciej Jablonski

Maciej Jablonski — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:02:01 +0000

@Huschke:
I think we can behave like community, you have something important to say about safety, I have my ‘safe’ background with devel and testing. You’ve read the update above an I think we can call this some kind of compromise.
Thanks for comments, I appreciate constructive criticism since I find myself pretty far from perfect, any other comment on this blog will be welcome and I will surely take your words into consideration.

By: Huschke

Huschke — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:57:28 +0000

Thanks, keep up the good work!

By: Huschke

Huschke — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:44:25 +0000

@Maciej:
Of course downloading a .deb from a completly unknown source is way unsafer, but only because something is unsafer doesn’t make doing something unsafe safe, now does it?

Leaving the security aspect aside, there are also a lot of other reason why you should not download stuff from the extras-devel and extras-testing repos like unoptified apps (=apps that fill up your rootfs in no time) and such.

Additionally I wouldn’t call maemo.org an offical repository per se. Sure, the site might be hosted by Nokia, but the Q&A process and the development is mainly done by people from within the community. If you ask me, the only reason the maemo.org repo is enabled by default in the preinstalled firmware is the high quality Q&A process in place and I think advising people to avoid that is just not a very good idea.

Ultimately I would say that giving people a choice is always good and I appreciate you helping people with this truely awesome blog, but a huge disclaimer wouldn’t hurt, would avoid complaints and would let me sleep much much tighter at night

Cheers,
Huschke