Thread: When will there be anything that can replace my N900
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2012-01-11 , 02:59
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#72
Originally Posted by Hurrian View Post
By this you mean get $LINUX_DISTRO and install Fremantle Hildon-Desktop? Maemo needs a massive rework from the ground up, from the horribly written initscripts to the proprietary bits (and d-bus abuse). It's a lot better to start from a regular Desktop Linux distro, slap on the things that make Maemo look like Maemo, thus making a nice cushion of support for core components while letting devs focus on modernizing whatever components of Maemo we have (you know, like our multitasking that's still 9000 years ahead of everybody else).
That sounds like a great idea. I think what would be even better would be if the phone bits were just created into a source available framework. Then, you could use whichever distro you like and be able to compile and install the phone stuff. I'd love to have a full gentoo install on my phone... not in a chroot or have everything funnelled through busybox.

As for the gnome/kde comments... I think something much less bloated would be better, like fluxbox or even xfce.