As I did work with the latest image during the last day (and changing the settings to make it much more comfortable for Pandora usage), I can tell you how the status is:
The image is pretty stable so far. I haven't had ANY crashes. I worked for hours and it was absolutely stable.
Customizing the desktop works nicely, working with it is very nice (good speed
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I'll probably manage to make some video tomorrow, but don't nail me on that, I'll try
Booting is a bit slow at the moment, however, we're booting a complete Linux desktop, so that's nothing special. It boots about as fast as a standard PC, I'd say.
Suspend and Hibernation are not included at the moment, probably also won't be for first release, but a firmware update should follow soon, so I guess in January (latest) you can simply suspend the unit like a normal PDA and then you don't need to reboot each time you use the unit.
Right Click (Tap and Hold) is currently being worked on.
I did connect a USB Hub with mouse and keyboard and that also did work without any problems.
The first boot wizard (which helps you setup the unit with a user account, Autologin (or not), XFCE4 or PMenu as default boot, etc.) is already working.
PMenu works fine, cpasjuste and DJWillis are currently working on a bitbake recipe to include it automatically upon Angström image creation (at the moment, I had to copy the files over manually).
Bluetooth is also working fine via command line, a GUI will be included within the next days.
Network Manager also does work (with g_ether, WiFi and - AFAIK (haven't tested it myself) UMTS sticks).
3D Acceleration (even in Windows) does also work.
PND-Files does work in readonly-mode, as there is a problem with AUFS which is currently being fixed.
For a first release this is really nice.
The only things that need some more work:
* Right-Click (Tap and Hold)
* Include Battery-Status (it charges, but it can't read out the current status yet)
* Include Suspend (Hibernation doesn't make sense at all, it's not much faster than a normal boot and it needs to save the memory on SD Card)
* Some more WiFi-Tweaks (to make it faster)
* Some minor issues (i.e. permissions on files, etc.)
* Fix AUFS (so pndlib does work as it should)
* Speed-Up booting!
* Some more scripts (enable TV Out, etc.)
That's mostly it
Pretty usable already
EDIT: About the NAND:
Yes, we're working with an SD Card to boot from.
DJWillis tried a NAND install months ago and it worked fine on first try, so it's nothing special (after all, NAND is basically just the same as an SD Card).
We'll probably put it on while assembling (just before shipping) to make sure you got the latest OS.
We might even install a minimal OS which allows you to download (via WiFi) or load from SD Card the most current image and install from there.
This would make sure you get the most recent image when flashing
But those are just ideas, we'll keep you informed about how we'll manage it.
