maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Fedora 8 now available for Nokia tablets!

Rebski	2008-01-20 , 21:00
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Thanks for posting this very welcome news. Sorry no flames from me, but then I am not a certain type of ITT person. At least I seriously hope not otherwise I shall end it all now.

Hopefully, for those people who believe that true Open Source is the way to go, this can be a great alternative to Maemo.

Do you know if this has to be run as an app under the present OS or can it replace the OS entirely? Although I am an active supporter of Penguinbait’s amazing KDE work I do not yet use it because, from what I can see, it becomes an app located in Extras. I appreciate that this is not Penguibait’s fault but is a Nokia restriction.

Basically I want to be shot of this Hildonisation stuff – or Maemo or whatever it is called – and wonder if Fedora has a way of doing that?

and even the folks here have no great desire for an RPM-based tablet distro should consider helping them.

I guess I have just demonstrated a great desire for an RPM-based tablet distro?

The developers are asking for any help you desire to do, even just downloading the rootfs, chrooting into it, testing the included packages to make certain they work correctly on Nokia tablets, and then posting your results to the mailing list.

I am very new to Linux but, if given a bit of How-To guidance, am happy to be of help.

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