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#89
Originally Posted by Rocketman View Post
You act as if porting an OS to a device is an easy task. Maemo, despite a surface appearance of openness, contain quite a few closed source components without which huge chunks of basic functionality are missing and have to be reimplemented. To date, there isn't really a viable community supported release of Maemo for any of the Nokia devices. It is small wonder almost no 3rd party manufacturers have attempted to make a device based on Maemo, while it is hard not to trip on all the new android devices coming out near daily.
I didn't say that it will be just a recompile. But as the N900 is ATM the developmentplatform for MeeGothe essential drivers and binary blobs should be there....

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Glasswalker