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Interesting that the author of that post, Riku Voipio, is a Nokia employee.

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Come on. I believe all of us were waiting for more exciting things to happen than OS 2007.
I think ubuntu mobile will make us lose our minds.
And for those arguing that ubuntu mobile is not for n770/800 i have to say that
as long as something is made for linux then linux users wiil make it even for windows even if it takes years.

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http://pokylinux.org/ has "Experimental Nokia N800 support"

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And why not? The more options for the tablets, the better. ;)

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You can work as you want, if Ubuntu mobile require a 900Mhz cpu and 1Gig of RAM you are f***ck.

I remember seeing that Ubuntu mobile require at least 512Megs of RAM ... Nokia 770 as 64megs and n800 128megs.

Kos

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Note that on the Ubuntu Mobile Wiki, they state under UI Framework that "Several engineers from Nokia are helping with this effort (Thanks!)."

I don't think that Nokia would lend engineers to the Ubuntu Mobile project without getting something in return. I would be surprised if the Hildon Interface demo'd on Ubuntu Mobile doesn't end up on the Nokia n800 at least. Question is, will it come with the next OS/firmware upgrade or will it come out when the first official version of Ubuntu Mobile is released in October? Or will the two releases coincide? At least we don't have to long to wait to find out.

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yup,

I would love to see my 770 running windowmaker, icewm or another "light" but standard user interface; not something tabbed like Hildon or maemo.

this said, the OEM software is nice and is doing what it was designed to do. So far I never hit a limitation in my regular usage (no use for youtube) and Mapquest/googlemaps are OK on my 770. there's a lot of nice to have (like a usb port on the Nec Mobilepro 900c I just sold) but hey, it can fit in my pocket, stream Internet radio, play resized TopGear videos (by the way, the Polar expedition Special look Amaizing on the 770 screen (see http://www.topgear.com/content/news/stories/2067/ ))

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Maybe Nokia will gear their next tablet towards these specifcations for Ubuntu Mobile... now that would be amazing... and pretty logical. They'd no longer have to develop so intensively for their own platform, so much money to be saved by letting the Ubuntu team do it for them (with the help of a few engineers, of course ;)).

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Has anyone here actually installed PokyLinux on their N800 yet?
It's a reflash job though...kind of prevents me from goin ahead and doing it.
Because then I'd have to rehack the bootloader and then set it all up to boot from SDHC again, reflash it BACK to the v4 firmware and then when I want "poky" pop in the Poky-SDHC.
Meh. Too much work right now.

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What is ubuntu Mobile ...

It s a Linux Kernel with many GNU applications with gtk2.8. The top gui framework is hildon, the home screen is named 'maemo-af-desktop' and the launcher is named 'maemo-launcher'.

Ubuntu UME is based on Maemo. Just get a look to the source code in launchpad