Okay, screw Manila. I tweaked WM7 Titanium Project a bit and holy crap it's sweet.
Before I go on, here are some changes I've made to the ROM in general. First off, I'm dropping Frugal edition: as it stands right now, it's a very fast, lightweight and stable ROM that feels stock. I don't see any major improvements that can be brought upon it. Next, Edge will lose its name: there will only be alRom now. I'm trying to achieve a balance between having the latest software, time for me work stabilize the ROM, time for me for other things, and time for you between flashes. I think a bi-weekly release cycle would be a fair balance, and would offer pretty major updates at every release. That is, one release every two weeks, not two releases every week.
Another thing I'll clarify is the version scheme. All releases will have a three-number version, where the first number is the major revision, the second number is the minor revision, and the last number is my own stability/polish rating from 0 to 10.
Finally, I'll reiterate the main goal of this ROM. alRom aims to provide a clean and polished out-of-the-box experience that requires little extra configuration to be usable. In short, flash and go.
At long last, a quick overview of my imminent release, alRom 0.10.8.
Code:
> Windows Mobile 6.5 build 21806 [thanks to da_reeseboy and all those imvolved]
> XIP and OEMDrivers optimized using nueSpinLockPatcher [thanks to No2chem]
> Updated D3D drivers [thanks to Juicy]
> Opera Mobile 9.7b1 [thanks to Opera Software ASA]
+ WM7 Titanium Project, including TitaniumWhether and Opera Favorites [thanks to everyone involved]
* Built using Calkulin's 4.8 kitchen
* UPX compression [script from Juicy's kitchen]
I figure I might as well release my kitchen; lots of chefs are doing that nowadays.
I'll probably release either tonight or tomorrow morning. Stay tuned!