Re:Open Source PC That Fits in Your Pocket
by thereddaikon on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @08:41AM
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having a keyboard does not a PC make. The N900 was great to type on by cellphone standards but it was still a cell phone. Maemo is not a PC OS. It did not do what a PC did.
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Re:Open Source PC That Fits in Your Pocket
by PopePompus on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @09:00AM
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You could easily (and I did) put a full Debian user space on the N900, and maintain all the cell phone functionality. It offered a pretty complete Linux experience.
Re:Open Source PC That Fits in Your Pocket
by selfhoster11 on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @09:26AM
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N900 was a great deal closer to a PC OS than any release of Android I've seen past Android 2.x. It even has X11 and a built in, honest-to-goodness version of apt! You can't say that about many phones these days.
I'm almost sure that with enough swearing and elbow grease I could replace the entire GUI with something that I can write myself to be tailor-made to my needs. Doing anything even close to this for Android seems like a daunting task.