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Re:Symbian Won by arpa on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:04AM (#23640224)
I _think_ it mostly was, with the exception of binary driver blobs. At least a few years ago it still had very active dev community at maemo.org, so it is not inconceivable for it to be revived. Alas, the neo900 project died.
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Re:Symbian Won by Fnoord on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:14AM (#23640323)
No idea if neo900 officially died, but unofficially the timeline on the bottom and lack of news on the website [1] say as much.

I believe right now you're best off with /e/ in combination with a Fairphone 3.

[1] https://neo900.org

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Re:Symbian Won by Intermernet on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:53AM (#23640749)
Friends of mine were taught by Carsten Haitzler (rasterman, original author of enlightenment, lead dev of tizen) at UNSW. Back in the day enlightenment was, in many ways, miles ahead of the competition. Unfortunately it was miles ahead of the hardware as well.

Apparently he has always been passionate about open source, and I've always been impressed by his output. I'd love to see /e/ get some mind share on a decent platform.

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Re:Symbian Won by Fnoord on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:59AM (#23640820)
Sorry, I could've added a link.

/e/ referred to [1], not Enlightenment.

[1] https://e.foundation

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