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#101
Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
But, of course, that's if your goal in life is to write little apps. With the N900, I'm running the same OS on my phone that I'm running on my desktop machines. I absolutely love being able to open a terminal and start editing code in Vim on the N900, in exactly the same way I do on my desktop machines. The freedom to use the machine as a normal Linux box, not just a glorified app launcher, is what sets the N900 apart from the appy phones.
Amen brother!

Preach it like it is. Android is a meaningless stack of trivial crap that people can face blog about on their tweetspace. The N900 was the first step towards truly convergent device. NO OTHER OS does this, only linux can transcend the architectures.
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N900: One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
 

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