Thread: Has anyone else "rediscovered" their n900?
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bobh is offline bobh
2010-11-21 , 02:22
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Originally Posted by extendedping View Post
By that I mean, when I got it, I really wanted to practice linux commands. I thought wow I can learn some bash programming and all the core gnu commands.
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So what about you? Have you "rediscovered" your n900? What did you buy it for over say an iphone or a android to begin with?
I've been using Linux on my desktop machines since the mid 90's so was quite familiar with it. For a while I ran in ISP using Linux servers. I sort of bypassed the whole Windows thing, having gone from DOS to OS/2 to Solaris to Linux.

So there wasn't any issue of learning Linux to make use of the n900. In fact, the idea of being able to use the Linux things I was already familiar with on a tiny portable device was a great attraction and one of the reasons I bought it over an iPhone or something else. The openness of it was also an attraction. I could install pretty much any software without AT&T or whoever dictating what was "approved". Pretty much like an PC in that regard.

An iPhone isn't like that. I don't think there is _anything_ else like that in the mobile device world.
 

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