Thread: Will N900 tether in Ubuntu?
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uvatbc is offline uvatbc
2010-05-14 , 15:16
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#30
Originally Posted by x61 View Post
This is strange. The N900 is linux based phone yet it is not "out-of-the-box" ready to work with linux.
"Linux" is just the name of the kernel. The distribution on the phone is Maemo - Fremantle.
Out-of-the-box compatibility with every single feature of a desktop machine would be resource wasteful for a phone.
If you *do* want it, it's easily installable - either from Nokia repositories or community repositories.

In other words, "there's a *free* app for that".
Enjoy your N900.