shawn wilson wrote at 2011-05-03 10:55 -0500:
> On May 3, 2011 11:06 AM, "green" <greenfreedom10@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".