Nokia N900 Linux Smartphone Running OS X

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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Nokia N900 comes out of the closet

[Anonymous Coward]

the only reason they are fighting for the marriage thing is just to bitch
about something, if they get the right to marry theyll bitch about something
else nothings good enough for homosexuals and various forms of coloreds. not
only do they have forced equality but they have extra benifits and weak
minded people tiptoeing around them trying to be PC. and then they try to
force beliefs onto people. its ok for them to disagree and feel and think
what they want, but then they try to enact various forceful tactics on
people who are equally but oppositely off the norm as they are, such as
racists. they have just as much right to feel the way that they do as a
homosexual does to feel the way they do. marraige is not a civil right, but
the ability to hate something is

Is there anyone Obama WON'T bow to?

[Anonymous Coward]

The mayor of a U.S. city, for crying out loud? Really?

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//100128/480/b07861589f354ce698c3bf88b741d692/

Re:Somewhat ironic

[LWATCDR]

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.

I can boot Linux on...

[InsaneProcessor]

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

Re:Love It

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, by the way, did you know Nokia makes this model of phone, the N900, that runs Linux? And incidentally, you can use the Nokia N900, which runs Linux, which is better than $CURRENT_DISCUSSED_PHONE. Oh, there's also the N900, a Linux smartphone, which runs Linux, and is Linux and Linux and Linux and Linux and Linux.

Seriously, I'm pretty well a Linux diehard, I like open systems, I like cool systems, and I like things that use Linux, but when I hear N900 fanatics crowbar their phone into any discussion about any phone, anywhere, at any time, it makes me question my OS of choice. And now we actually have a Slashdot article involving the N900. Ye gods, this is going to be an infinite loop unless someone added some check in your hard-wired brain to not start a new evangelizing thread if someone actually mentions the N900 itself.

do {
if($TOPIC eq "Cell Phones") evangelize();
} while($slashdot->getNextArticle());

Linux?

[Anonymous Coward]

If it's OS X it 'aint Linux. It's Darwin and that's BSD. If it's Debian (apt-get, etc.), then it's Linux. Make up your minds, please!

Re:Somewhat ironic

[LWATCDR]

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.