Hey, Matthijs, dude, no need to defend here.
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Originally Posted by Matthijs
Its sad to see that especially those shouting loudest for the sources, have not shown any interest in actually using those available.
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Huh. I hope you don't mean me here. After the burning-my-fingers episode where I bricked my device, I shut up, due to a sudden decrease in interest in the Iliad.
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Originally Posted by Matthijs
For the core OS, we use standard available building-blocks, which we mostly haven't modified at all (apart from applying publicly available patches). On top of that a lot of custom applications -- written from scratch -- are running. We're talking >100k lines of C code (without headers).
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Well I don't think 100klines is so much. Lines-of-code is actually a very bad measure for development effort. But, to be fair, let me add a few numbers to yours, because there's many non-programmers here. The software implementation for my masters thesis (where the implementation was not the main part), was over 50 klines, in C++, including headers. That means one developer, working part-time in parallel to his studies. According to
some random site i just googled, the linux kernel (version 2.6.17), is over 4 million lines, and firefox is over 2 million. Note iRex uses an older kernel (2.4.something) and minimo instead of firefox.
I think Matthijs' point is "hey, we did a lot of software development". And my point is "hey, but that's still just a tiny piece of the Iliad's software". I think both are right
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Originally Posted by Matthijs
You can expect the sources for the kernel and the sources of modified GPL/LGPL software packages by the end of February (as also advertised on our developers website).
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Well I think that's half a year too late. Add a safe development environment and user-friendly software installer for the Iliad, and you may attract new developers. Which would be the best that could happen to you
and the Iliad's users, so I wish you the best luck for it.
(But don't expect to convince me. From what I've seen so far, I don't trust you guys at all. Let me see some proofs instead of announcements.)