No, that won't be possible. AFAIK Nokia aren't releasing the drivers for old phone hardware, and the certainly aren't releasing whatever secret mechanisms they use to stop you installing whatever kernel you want on your old phone.
This is basically only interesting if you want to develop a new phone. Now you have the choice of making high end hardware and running Maemo (or Android of you want to be Googles bitch) or making low end hardware and running Symbian.
Where do you get the idea that Google's kernel is "leaner" or "better"? It has extra stuff the mainline doesn't - "wakelocks", "binder". Google haven't removed stuff, they've added extra stuff that makes it hard to port drivers from Android to mainline.
Of course, Android is its own project. Perhaps there needs to be a Google-less Android? Which would require some work on several apps
Apparently this may be the way forward. Leaves everyone with hardware that's only supported by Android in the shit though.
Google was going to be an interesting case of a large company hiring people both from the embedded world and also the existing Linux development community and then producing an embedded device that was intended to compete with the very best existing platforms. I had high hopes that this combination of factors would result in the Linux community as a whole having a better idea what the constraints and requirements for high-quality power management in the embedded world were, rather than us ending up with another pile of vendor code sitting on an FTP site somewhere in Taiwan that implements its power management by passing tokenised dead mice through a wormhole.
To a certain extent, my hopes were fulfilled. We got a git server in California.
The real question is why they are using PearPC to emulate the PowerPC architecture? Wouldn't an x86 version of OS X be easier to get up and running, and maybe even approach something usable?
why would emulating the crazy x86 architecture be easier than a nice, simple RISC processor?
Or did you think the N900 uses an Intel processor? No, it's an ARM.
Given that Intels SSD's don't seem to exist at the moment (the X25-E has been unavailable from major European distributors since 10/2009) I'd just like them to make some.
Nokia have said they're going to release other Maemo devices.
Nokia have said they're working on Maemo 6.
It is as yet unknown whether Maemo 6 will run on the N900. (all the previous Maemo devices got at least one OS update).
There is nothing stopping people other than Nokia porting all but the closed source bits of Maemo 6 to the N900 (And Maemo 6 is likely to have fewer closed source bits than Maemo 5 does, e.g. ofono for the telephone stack instead of the N900's closed source stack).
I work on a sourceforge hosted Linux HA project. Some guy in Cuba wanted to use it, but because of these restrictions he gave up and is now using FreeBSD.
Apple have, of course, not patented "multitouch" or "capacitive screens". They have patented "Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics".
As much as I hate to defend one of Bush's decisions, this isn't true. Osama bin Laden was in Afghanistan, and the Taliban refused to hand him over because (1) they didn't believe he was linked to the 9/11 attacks and (2) he was a "guest" in their country.
Most of what people "know" is not true.
A leading spokesman for Afghanistan's ruling Taleban militia has said it would consider extraditing terror suspect Osama Bin Laden based on US evidence.
Or, even before 9/11
Saudi: Bin Laden extradition botched
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- The leader of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia agreed to extradite Osama bin Laden to Saudi Arabia in 1998 but reneged following U.S. strikes on Afghanistan that year, a former head of Saudi intelligence said
Neither Clinton nor Bush ever seriously tried to extradite Bin Laden, it was much more fun raining bombs down on people.
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If only.
No, that won't be possible. AFAIK Nokia aren't releasing the drivers for old phone hardware, and the certainly aren't releasing whatever secret mechanisms they use to stop you installing whatever kernel you want on your old phone.
This is basically only interesting if you want to develop a new phone. Now you have the choice of making high end hardware and running Maemo (or Android of you want to be Googles bitch) or making low end hardware and running Symbian.
Really? You've seen an N900 ad that mentions the G1?
Yes Nokia chose not to use Android because Android didn't exist.
Mere repetition isn't proof. What do you think the specialised needs of phones are? Tokenized dead mice? Hardcoded user Id's?
what's with the question mark?
which was chucking a mess of unmaintainable hacks in the kernel?
A little different, how exactly?
More details. What features of mainline Linux make it incompatible with portable phones?
How, exactly?
Really? Apparently Nokia (among others) disagree.
Because we know that the current kernel is perfect and no improvements or new features will ever be implemented.
Sez who? My phone runs a pretty much standard kernel. Nokia have worked with the Kernel developers getting it all in to mainline.
This is great for me - if (when) Nokia abandon it some time in the future I (or "the community") can carry on supporting it forever.
Which is the whole point about the GPL (see RMS vs the printer driver).
Where do you get the idea that Google's kernel is "leaner" or "better"? It has extra stuff the mainline doesn't - "wakelocks", "binder". Google haven't removed stuff, they've added extra stuff that makes it hard to port drivers from Android to mainline.
Apparently this may be the way forward. Leaves everyone with hardware that's only supported by Android in the shit though.
Might be rather hard to "clean up". Back in 2008 Mathew Garret wrote:
why would emulating the crazy x86 architecture be easier than a nice, simple RISC processor?
Or did you think the N900 uses an Intel processor? No, it's an ARM.
Given that Intels SSD's don't seem to exist at the moment (the X25-E has been unavailable from major European distributors since 10/2009) I'd just like them to make some.
In the Uk it's available from Vodaphone for "free" ("On Pay monthly plans from £40").
Myself I bought it outright, like my last 3 phones. Just hate the idea of tying myself to a supplier.
Well, that's a very fuddy way to put it.
Nokia have said they're going to release other Maemo devices.
Nokia have said they're working on Maemo 6.
It is as yet unknown whether Maemo 6 will run on the N900. (all the previous Maemo devices got at least one OS update).
There is nothing stopping people other than Nokia porting all but the closed source bits of Maemo 6 to the N900 (And Maemo 6 is likely to have fewer closed source bits than Maemo 5 does, e.g. ofono for the telephone stack instead of the N900's closed source stack).
Uh, why?
He asked a reasonable question.
It was the Home Office that gave the reply some people don't like, even if it is probably true.
Yes, two exciting new technologies:
Try (by volume, not weight) 75% potassium nitrate, 15% charcoal, and 10% sulfur.
(Maybe I'm looking for a wooosh?)
doesn't fix the problem.
True story:
I work on a sourceforge hosted Linux HA project. Some guy in Cuba wanted to use it, but because of these restrictions he gave up and is now using FreeBSD.
Is that really what we want?
Wow, the situation is worse than I thought - you mean Americans no longer have access to websites outside the US?
Slashdot mods - you moderated that "insightful"!
Apple have, of course, not patented "multitouch" or "capacitive screens". They have patented "Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics".
It's all about the heuristics. See http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/02/13/the-iphone-multitouch-patent-myth/ for a reasonable description.
More proof that slashdot moderators are insane. The comment:
gets modded "insightful". WTF!
Richard Reid comes from the middle east? Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab comes from the Middle East? Are either of them Arabs?
Most of what people "know" is not true.
Or, even before 9/11
Neither Clinton nor Bush ever seriously tried to extradite Bin Laden, it was much more fun raining bombs down on people.
Huh?
Some resistive screens can do multi-touch.
[ citation needed ] (And space dancer isn't it).
The point is resistive screens do "accuracy", capacitive screens do "responsive" and "multi touch".
They're testing screens for accuracy and they only look at machines with capacitative screens.
The iPhone has multi-touch, it beats the pants of the N900 for "responsiveness", but it's nowhere near as accurate.