I just saw in my RSS reader that CyanogenMod 7 is now stable. Fantastic!
I was running an Elelinux variant which was based on RC’s, with both good and bad results. Right now I’m waiting for my newly flashed Hero to boot up so I can see what the clean CM 7 has to offer. 
It’s a good day, even though it’s Monday…
PS. Damn cool boot animation on it…
Edit: Need to download and install the google apps separately, I grabbed the CM7 gapps from here.
I re-flashed my HTC Hero (again) today. I saw that Elelinux Hero ROM v.7 had reached RC4 and thought “Ooh, this has got to be better than RC2″ (which I was running before that).
I could not have been more wrong. The onscreen keyboard did not work in the Market, unable to select any option in the reboot menu… Thank god it’s so easy to install Eclipse and the Android SDK on linux these days. One ./adb shell and one reboot recovery later I was back in charge of my Hero.
I’m now back to Froyo (2.2.1) again. This time though I went with Elelinux speedmachine v2. So far it seems to perform okay, I can’t say that I’m expecting miracles from the Hero, speedmachine or not.
Thought I’d upload a few screenshots of it.
