Re: Debian on Nokia N900?

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 09:22:53AM +0200, Selim T. Erdogan wrote:

> > Nokia released some time ago some smartphones using a Debian-based
> > OS, which they called Maemo.
> > I was wondering if anybody on this list had any previous experience
> > with the N900, trying to setup a
> > vanilla Debian system.

I have a N900 and did setup Debian using the Maemo provided packages.  I
could even run openoffice on my N900 in the Debian environment.

I removed it again as it used up a lot of space and was a bit slow.

See http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian

Regards
Johann

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