On May 3, 2011 1:41 PM, "green" <greenfreedom10@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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". 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.