On Monday 21 January 2008, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Hanno Zulla > > | Maemo (as such) is free enough, some of the apps and drivers that Nokia > | ships with its tablets are not. A competitor interested in building a > | Maemo device should be able to adapt Maemo to its hardware and build > | replacements for the non-free apps. > > Not all the parts of maemo are necessarily interesting to others. > Ubuntu has no need for busybox or initfs since we use a normal > initramfs with glibc instead. We use a different bootloader (grub) > than the normal maemo stack and we use network-manager rather than > ConIC.
Well I am starting to try using Maemo as an embedded network appliance. It will not be a handheld, but I want the software stack to be as much Maemo as possible. I have a few reasons, but one is I find the its integration to be very tight. I am hoping as I approach it, that the integration is not so tight as to make the OSS solution be totally hamstrung. I am taking some easy ways out to begin with. For starters I am using arm9 based hardware very close to that on the N8XX series. I am also intending a touchscreen and not keyboard. The architecture is very close to the N800, but its use case is vastly different. So far I have my booting debian system and now I have to start building/installing hildon and gtk packages. I hope I will soon have a Maemo device to show off. (Where soon is some number greeater than 0) Thanks Brian _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
