On May 3, 2011 1:41 PM, "green" <greenfreedo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > shawn wilson wrote at 2011-05-03 10:55 -0500: > > On May 3, 2011 11:06 AM, "green" <greenfreedo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Probably the Nokia N810 does not count, considering it is not GSM or CDMA > > > capable. And at this point it seems unlikely that Debian will ever run on > > > it. > > > > Whaaaaat? Might want to Google again. IIRC, Nokia's phones were the closest > > to linux 5+ years before Apple or Google ever thought of making a phone. The > > n7xx, n8xx and n9xx should run most (if not all?) linux programs that can be > > compiled on an ARM. > > > > IIRC, OS2008 was a port of debian. > > I expected a response like this. ;) > > By "run Debian" I mean actually run Debian armel. I have run Debian and a > linux-omap-2.6 kernel on the N810 in the past, but the battery drained fast, > no GPS, no X, couldn't read internal mmc, audio problems, etc. Basically, > "it didn't work". There are some howtos for running Debian or Ubuntu, but > either they are chroots, or the required packages no longer exist. Even > using a Debian chroot has not worked for me, because I always use encryption > for my files and neither LUKS/cryptsetup nor encfs work with the Maemo > kernel. I have spent a little time trying to rebuild the Maemo kernel, but > the custom init stuff just makes it all more complicated, and I have not > found a howto that includes rebuilding the initfs. > > Or I could keep it simple and just say "running Debian means using mainline > Linux". I have been told that at least GPS and power management will likely > never be supported by mainline. > > I suppose the story is unfortunately the same with the N900. I will not > purchase one for "running Debian" unless I see real evidence of mainline > support. > https://elektranox.org/n900/kernel/status.html >
Yeah but all of this means your Nokia is light years ahead of any idevice or Android of running linux. Some hardware might not work but you can still have a custom linux kernel and run linux apps. For instance, I can ssh into my box from my phone and open vi. You can get vi and open it on your n800. Ps- lisi are you inferring that products that are no longer manufactured should not be supported by the open source community? I truly hope not.