On 2011-05-23 3:04 PM, green wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote at 2011-05-23 08:28 -0500: >> Camaleón wrote: >>> And IMO, too useless/time consuming also. I want a phone not a game >>> console :-) >> >> A computer with hardware I can't access is a computer I don't want. > > Right. Someone gave me a blackberry with GPS hardware... great, but apps > can't use the GPS because of some stupid Verizon policy thing (although the > phone is no longer on Verizon). So really some of these phones have issues > even without trying to use FOSS on them. > >> When teh Smartphone is a portable computer with an *open GSM stack* I'll >> be interested. Until then it's a "dumbphone" with a low-end processor >> sharing the battery. > > And the difference is "game console" versus actual *productivity*. Oh, the > things I could do with a phone if I could run Debian on it...!
I have a pair of Nokia N900s. Run Maemo 5 (Fremantle), which is based on Debian. It also has (though I don't use), a package called "Easy Debian", which basically lets you run normal ARM Debian in a chroot. I love it to bits. Sadly, has a fair few closed components (both UI and deep in the cellular stack), and the next project version (Maemo 6 - Harmatten) is going to be the last Debian-based version, as the original plan was to merge Nolia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin into MeeGo, a combined project that adopted the Fedora-based Moblin's base system over Maemo's Debian-based one. :( I'm sure on this mailing list we all appreciate Apt over RPM ;) Anyway. Nokia's not been the best at supporting platform, but if you can get a cheap old N900 it's a great platform for mobile OSS dev, and has a great community over at talk.maemo.org. I suspect the device running Maemo 6 will be even better from the OSS point of view, as more of the stack is being opened as part of the migration to MeeGo. Very slowly though. - Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4de2ba1d.4000...@jamie-thompson.co.uk