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My Cowon X5L (which has slightly-broken controls), my flash drive, and for just about everything other than school my laptop.

IIRC 900-925 is the maximum clock speed the developers were able to achieve without stability issues. I know 600 was at least at one point the default clock speed, but I remember reading about the possibility of having 500 as the default to conserve energy. I'm curious as to how far down the...

Ugh, I know what you mean. I'll be taking notes in vim or updating packages or something (I use the terminal for just about everything), and nearly everyone who sees me immediately assumes I'm "hacking". I tried explaining what a command line was at first, and how it's really just a different...

.sh files are just shell scripts, the equivalent of Windows's batch files. Whether or not it will work depends on what commands the script uses, specifically whether there are also other programs your university has you download in order to connect which are called by said script. If there...

From what we've been told, you will need no knowledge of Linux to use the Pandora. My primary uses for the Pandora will be mp3 playing and as an internet device. You will be able to multi-task, both the examples you gave will be possible. As for installing stuff, anything that isn't too resource...

Eh, for around the house sshfs isn't the best solution in terms of speed. The encryption slows things down considerably. I can't remember exactly off the top of my head, but I think one of the benchmarks of different network filesystems I saw had sshfs at about 2MB/s and NFS and CIFS somewhere...

Yes, that would work fine, but that means you'd be wasting space on the SD card. Every time a package in the firmware is updated, the new package would be installed on the SD card. That's what I meant by never updating the NAND. 256MB at most (more or less depending on compression) isn't really...

But then what do you do when you update the packages on the NAND after you already have a bunch of stuff installed on the SD card? Would you have to fix the database on the SD card by hand? Or I suppose you could never update the NAND from the day you take it out of the box, but that's certainly...

It wouldn't have to. That's how union mounts work. When the SD card isn't present, apt would use the database on the Pandora. When it is present, it would use the one on the SD card, which is where all the packages would be installed (assuming a / union mount). Take the SD card out and there's...

All of which can be extended from the PXML system, and we can all live happily ever after. :P In all seriousness though, are there any remaining arguments as to why this is a bad idea and a full-blown package manager should be used instead? To recap some of the major features of PXML (in...

Alright, I'm satisfied. From what I understand, automatic package updates and downloading new ones is going to be fairly simple. That was my main concern; I just didn't want to have to do everything by hand. As for memory and storage usage, is it really that likely that many apps will be using...

Hmm, I'm actually starting to lean towards the other side (no package manager). I've read some of the information about PXML, but I don't know everything about it, so I do have some questions/suggestions. First, the installer. I didn't know PXML was going to have one. Could you elaborate more...

I've never used apt-walkabout (it's been a long time since I've even used apt), but after reading the page I don't think it would address the issues the Pandora would have. It seems to be intended to upgrade regular systems which have no internet connection through sneakernet rather than be used...

Eh, I suppose I'm more or less appeased. Finding out of date packages is certainly nice, even if you have to manually update them. There also seems to be enough interest in having a package manager that a community-maintained one seems probable. That being said, I still think catering to the...

If the reason we just use simple zips rather than a package manager is to accomodate people who have only ever used Windows and think "Package management? That sounds complicated...", then I'm sorry but that's absolutely ****ing stupid. Chances are if you're buying a Pandora you're at least...

Hmm... I like the idea, but it does seem as though it'll require cooperation from the developers of individual apps. For example, if a several apps are statically linked to the same library, it's still wasted space. Ideally developers would release a plain zip containing all the libraries for...

Ah, now I feel stupid for entirely missing the point about the problem with two SD cards. However, I still don't think that simple zips would be better than package management. The package manager could be configurable to deal with this problem. Say GameA requires LibA. LibA is already...

I am strongly in favor of a package system. With a lot of apps installed (emulators, homebrew, media players, OS files, etc.), it could be the difference between spending upwards of an hour checking which packages are out of date, downloading and manually upgrading them vs. a entering single...