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Because SD-cards also use NAND Flash, but use nonoptimal filesystems (FAT32, EXT2/3 perhaps) which do suffer from this kind of wear, whereas the builtin NAND flash does have wear-leveling (due to having the proper FS) and therefore will last substantially longer. ZIP uses compression, so you...

Wasn't there some kind of wear-leveling planned? Even use of JFFS2 (or UBIFS for those who like speedy experimental stuff) as the primary NAND-FS would mitigate just about all issues. But that is a discussion for another thread. I'd make the location user-selecatable, since the index file does...

Installation here would be "download and store on an SD card", removal would be "remove the thing from SD card". I'd want to keep track of my installed applications accross all my SD cards. The majority of Pandora users will probably limit themselves to 2 SD cards most of the time, but with...

I'd guess the best way for 1) is both; Every SD-card would have it's own index for the apps on that card (would have to be scanned of course for manual additions, but to speed up the initial list, this would be more practical), for when it is inserted in someone elses Pandora (they need the...

I just figured that if we were to produce a local client, we should really integrate it with the existing apps. The app launcher we have now could be extended to browse via the PND Software Repository (I like that name). Pretty much the complete PND Software Repository API could be implemented...

Essentially, yes, that would be possible. But it requires the PND Package Manager to have information on your system. I do not see a need to log in with the service other than for developers submitting new PND files, because then it would not be true REST. It would be much nicer if your own...

You know, there is something to be said for centralizing everything and making it as simple as possible. I don't think that is a "Linux" argument per se. You say you'd hate to have to use the File Archive to get software? The PND Package Manager (could you reconsider the name? PND Package...

I did not realize PND files would be operated this way. Your choices seem to make a lot more sense now. There are two kinds of packages; those "portable" PND packages, and those internal continuously available to the OS. You should not confuse the two, as they cannot really be used...

I'd say the File Archive is the central repository for this kind of handhelds. It would make sense to continue the tradition of software offerings there. Of course, it would boost Pandora sales when people discover that the Pandora has certain titles they seek. But, aside from that, I...

Yes there is: http://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=define:package+manager I can't believe they would decide against a pre-installed package manager. If it's running Angstrom, IPKG is supported. They might not run their own Angstrom mirror, but that does not stop us from running one containing...

The File Archive's backend might be somewhat closed, but the front-end is still HTML. You can structurally get all the information you need just by spidering. I wouldn't call the system closed just because you don't have access to the data the way it's internally stored, you don't need that much!

Having read your explanation, I am willing to give my opinion on such a service. What you describe as a "PND Package Manager" sounds to me as a "PND Package Repository with fetching/upload frontend". A manager manages whatever is installed on your local system, and makes sure it gets the files...

That Marvell thing is called the Sheeva plug, info here: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9634061300.html. They're selling them right now from http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/ ... v-kit.aspx The PogoPlug is a pre-programmed Sheeva Plug for USB Mass Storage device sharing, but I guess...

What seems to have gone wrong here is that they delivered the keyboard symbols cropped to the image inside, instead of having a consistent size. So, when you center each image on the center of the key, those with low heights (such as Y_) are offset to the center (as opposed to U*v for example)...

I realize this is a bit different from Math++ (and probably satisfies entirely different audiences, sorry for hijacking your thread) but I was hoping that at one point SageMath could be ported to the Pandora. For those unfammiliar: it is a combination of special purpose mathematics applications...