CyanogenMod 7 release candidates available [LWN.net]

CyanogenMod 7 release candidates available

Posted Feb 17, 2011 11:59 UTC (Thu) by pierre (guest, #663)
Parent article: CyanogenMod 7 release candidates available

As an HTC Hero user, it's nice having many alternative ROMs to choose from instead of still running 1.5.
But what about trustworthiness of these, would you trust and run an unknown Linux distribution downloaded from some guy in forum posts ?

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CyanogenMod 7 release candidates available

Posted Feb 17, 2011 14:52 UTC (Thu) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link] (1 responses)

Often a *binary* distribution, with no source available, at that!

Availability of source for custom ROMS/Firmwares

Posted Feb 22, 2011 16:22 UTC (Tue) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]

The problem with most of these custom firmwares are they aren't built from source. They usually take an existing binary distro and then tweak it by moving stuff around, adding packages and tweaking config files. Most phone mod people don't seem to have roots in the FLOSS community either so have less appreciation for the benefits of build from source.

Although I was running FroydVillain on my Hero I ended up switching to CyanongenMod because building from a known source tree (modulo propriety bits) is important to me.