[2008.9] Wifi very unreliable

Fri Oct 3 12:05:20 CEST 2008

Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net> writes:
>> As much as I love my FR, I must admit that the whole experience had 
>> me thinking lustful thoughts about my wife's iPhone...
>>> I would say just get an iPhone. I did. Its much more fun to develop 
> for a *platform* rather than a constant dogs-breakfast of disaster. 
> Until someone in the Freerunner world turns the thing into a stable 
> platform, its just going to go on and on forever with nothing ever 
> being fixed, stably, and dependably.
>> I mean, give me a break. Its October, and people are *still* 
> wrestling with WLAN configuration. Can you hackers not see how stupid 
> it is to be fussing with 'pretty stuff' when the most basic things 
> don't even work?
>> I've given up on Freerunner development. Until there is a stable 
> image that provides an Operating System (what we have now: Inoperable) 
> its just not worth the fuss. The Freerunner project has been 
> murdered, in my opinion, by hobby horsing hackers who have nothing but 
> hatred for the end users that *could* be using the thing.

Just to add some perspective, for my intended applications the iPh*ne is
not an option. On the other hand, any suitable open handheld gnu/linux
device with gps and phone hardware would work. If competing hardware
forfilling these requirements showed up, I could easily switch hardware.
> ;
> --
> Jay Vaughan
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Joakim Verona