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Originally Posted by jago25_98 View Post
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How open is the hardware? One problem we keep having on Android is the modem(radio), GPS and a few other bits being closed. This has put a chilling effect on development. Can you give me a primer on the n900 being hopefully better than that?

The main thing I wanted to do with the n900 was have it constantly ready to go war driving. Unlike Android the drivers are direct in the OS.

I still need some sort of big overview/ tech intro to Meemo and Android though coming from linux. Something just to tell me how to find info in /proc, or the filesystem, or how to look into where apps are or find a file inside an app. Just those things you do on linux normally anyway.
As for openness, modem is closed, as well as the gfx and other stuff. However, there is some work going on to bust the modem open. http://elinux.org/N900 shows some of the stuff being currently worked on for 3.x kernels mostly.

About /proc, etc, Maemo follows proper Linux FHS. So you should be able to apply the Linux knowledge you already have. The only thing different was the use of /opt to store application binaries (a side effect of / being only 256MB. there were other ways Nokia could have used though).

Last edited by sicelo; 2014-03-09 at 08:40.
 

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