Thread: N900 vs Neo900 vs Jolla
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2014-10-02 , 01:24
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Originally Posted by marmistrz View Post
Ad 3: I love my moribund N900 for:
0. true multitasking, it's me who decides
If you are after true multitasking, you may want to read this thread before deciding whether the Jolla device meets your requirements.

Originally Posted by bill_klpd View Post
And for the touch screen I hate that resistive screens lack the multitouch.
Not all resistive touch screens lack multi-touch. In fact the Neo900 will have two-point multi-touch using the the same screen as the N900.

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Ne0900 is vaporware that, in my Humble opinion, will never get released, and if it does, it will be 2/3 broken and soon abandoned due to some rage quit/internal conflicts in management team. I don't see future for that device.
You're entitled to your opinion so I'm not going to accuse you of trolling but my opinion is that you are just spreading FUD. It's quite clear that you don't get on well with Jörg and it looks like this has affected your judgement.

As far as I can tell, the project is healthier than ever. GDC are still on board and have a history of releasing devices, the board design is largely based on a working product and the project is steadily making progress.

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Add to this that Neo900, even if it ever gets released (which I doubt, again), expects to have own infra, own communication channel, own organization... You know, to ensure that users get in touch only with "appropriate" content
Perhaps I'm too dumb but I don't understand what you are getting at. Users are free to use whatever communication channel they desire.

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Considering, how "awesome" history of moderating IRC or even the own Neo900 section of TMO the Neo900 "leader" have, you may expect that it won't have anything to do with free speech or FOSS ideals. Just a sandbox/kindergarten of one frustrated guy.
Again, I don't understand what you are getting at. The intention is that you will be free to install or port whatever OS you like. I don't see how any leader, whomever that may be, would be able to affect free software ideals in that scenario.

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Side effect of this separation - Free'ness/Openess aside, it means that it will have MUCH less in common with Maemo or Maemo community, than previously promised.
It's not clear what promise you are referring to.

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
Also, considering how much "love" is in the air between Maemo's leadership and Neo900's dictatorship
Some projects run by a dictator work very well. The Linux kernel for example.

Originally Posted by Estel View Post
you may skip any hopes for official cooperation, too (and rightly so - anyone wanting to do anything official with joerg would need to be not entirely OK in his head).
I don't have any hopes in this regard. The Maemo leadership seems to be in a bit of a mess right now and it's not very clear what they would be able to offer the Neo900. I see it as a good thing that they can run independently.
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DebiaN900 - Native Debian on the N900. Deprecated in favour of Maemo Leste.

Maemo Leste for N950 and N9 (currently broken).
Devuan for N950 and N9.

Mobile devices with mainline Linux support - Help needed with documentation.

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