Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

shawn wilson wrote at 2011-05-03 10:55 -0500:
On May 3, 2011 11:06 AM, "green" <greenfreedom10@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Probably the Nokia N810 does not count, considering it is not GSM or CDMA
capable. And at this point it seems unlikely that Debian will ever run on
it.

Whaaaaat? Might want to Google again. IIRC, Nokia's phones were the closest
to linux 5+ years before Apple or Google ever thought of making a phone. The
n7xx, n8xx and n9xx should run most (if not all?) linux programs that can be
compiled on an ARM.

IIRC, OS2008 was a port of debian.

I expected a response like this. ;)

By "run Debian" I mean actually run Debian armel. I have run Debian and a
linux-omap-2.6 kernel on the N810 in the past, but the battery drained fast,
no GPS, no X, couldn't read internal mmc, audio problems, etc. Basically,
"it didn't work". There are some howtos for running Debian or Ubuntu, but
either they are chroots, or the required packages no longer exist. Even
using a Debian chroot has not worked for me, because I always use encryption
for my files and neither LUKS/cryptsetup nor encfs work with the Maemo
kernel. I have spent a little time trying to rebuild the Maemo kernel, but
the custom init stuff just makes it all more complicated, and I have not
found a howto that includes rebuilding the initfs.

Or I could keep it simple and just say "running Debian means using mainline
Linux". I have been told that at least GPS and power management will likely
never be supported by mainline.

I suppose the story is unfortunately the same with the N900. I will not
purchase one for "running Debian" unless I see real evidence of mainline
support.
https://elektranox.org/n900/kernel/status.html

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