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Re: Applications: Kitchen or CAB install?

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Originally Posted by Liquidmantis View Post
I just got my XV6800 yesterday and as of now I'm running no2chem 5067 with a slew of applications. I was wondering what the advantage is of including apps in the ROM file. Does doing it that way put everything into a reserved ROM space versus installs putting them into the Programs memory location? If that's the case I can see the advantage, but that means cooking up a new ROM everytime an app gets updated which might get old.
Really the only benefit you get is that it's already installed when you start up. That, and if you ever hard reset it will still be there. There isn't a reserved rom space or anything. On the downside the app will not be listed in 'remove programs'....
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