Hi. Marius Gedminas schrieb: >> If you attended the first talk I was the guy asking to raise your hand >> if you want to see the Nokia IT devices being freed of all proprietary >> software in one way (install a different OS) or another (make IT OS 100% >> free itself). > > I was one of those who raised their hands. :)
>> 1) Users should be able to install any compatible OSes on their Nokia IT >> devices they wish like one can do on their desktop computers. > > Please add "and have all the hardware working properly", because you can > already install Debian or Poky on a Nokia IT. Good catch! While this is what I had in my mind it was not spoken out explicitly. I'll add this in the final text. >> 2) It should be possible to port and put Maemo on other non-Nokia >> devices like it is possible to e.g. port Fedora to any machine. > > If I'm not confused about the terms, Maemo already consists of only the > open-source parts. The software that comes on a Nokia IT is called the > "Internet Tablet Operating System", and it is based on Maemo with a lot > of non-free parts added at various levels of the software stack. > > Perhaps what you want is to make Maemo complete -- by adding the missing > closed parts such as the virtual keyboard/handwriting input plugins, > status bar applets, etc. My knowledge of maemo seems to be incomplete. Well, I thought all this stuff belongs to Maemo already. Too bad it does not ... Regards Robert
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