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Nokia N900 Linux Smartphone Running OS X

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the mr-johnson's-dog dept.

Rovaani writes "There is a video floating around of a Nokia N900 smartphone running the full desktop Mac OS X 10.3. From the author, Tomi Nikkanen: 'I believe this makes the N900 the first smartphone ever to run a full version of Mac OS X (at any speed, slow or otherwise). As you can see from the heavily edited video, it took almost 2 hours to reach the "About my Mac..." window. Keep your eye on the time display as that will give you an impression of just how uselessly slow it is.'"

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  1. Re:Somewhat ironic by LWATCDR · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Actually the iPhone does run OS/X just a different flavor of it.
    I guess that one could port a VM to the iPhone or iPad if you had the dev kit for it or jail broke it.
    I would say it is possible but not sanctioned.

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  2. I can boot Linux on... by InsaneProcessor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can boot Linux on my T-mobile G1. I guess that is.....well.....oops.

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  3. Re:Somewhat ironic by LWATCDR · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think the point was that the N900 is more open than the iPhone. Which is why I said that running a VM on the iPhone should be possible but not sanctioned.

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