Thread: Worth buying the nokia n900 now?
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2011-02-13 , 08:09
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Originally Posted by alcalde View Post
It wasn't Linux I was suggesting was dodgy. I said that because there are far fewer distros for the ARM architecture than for x86. I just searched on Distrowatch and it returns 5 ARM distros including Meego (murky future), NetBSD (technically not Linux) and Gentoo (source-based distro).
Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, and slackware all have ARM ports; the chances they all go belly-up or useless seem... scant.

And you can't redeem lousy hardware with good software -- your choice of 318 distros with a dead battery is still a paperweight.
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