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Re:A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo by corford on Thursday October 27, 2011 @08:19AM (#3162671)
It's not often that I get worked up over failed platforms but Nokia's botching of Maemo really makes me angry.

The N9 shows they had a viable, potentially world beating platform. Not only have they thrown it under a bus but, with its passing, so goes any hope of a true linux based smartphone (and accompanying ecosystem) ever achieving mass market exposure. It's tragic.

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Re:A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo by coob on Thursday October 27, 2011 @09:39AM (#3162950)
Android is Linux based.
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Re:A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo by corford on Thursday October 27, 2011 @11:28AM (#3163607)
As tincholio says, I added the word true on purpose. When you use a real linux stack, things like this are possible:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Easy_Debian

http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/openoffice-org...

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Re:A eulogy for Maemo and MeeGo by tincholio on Thursday October 27, 2011 @10:31AM (#3163237)
Note the parent said 'true linux based', probably referring to Maemo running a full Linux stack, instead of a non-standard kernel and a non-X, JVM-based environment.
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