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2011-02-16 , 00:51
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Originally Posted by ericsson View Post
The Linux kernel is bloatware. Symbian was (still is) lean and mean, but probably too much so?. WP is modern, and not that much unlike Symbian. If Symbian was to be modernized from the ground up, it would be very similar to WP.

Hmmm. Interesting take. This is why I have, for years, been able to take a machine that no longer had the specs for the current incarnation of Windows, throw a modern Linux on it and get years more useful service out of it. Like the PII/233 with a 5GB hard drive and 192MB of RAM that I ran until mid-2008...

If Symbian were to be modernized, and efficient, it would wind up looking a lot like Maemo. MS has never been the hallmark for efficient software. Windows mobile 5 and 6 were failures for a reason. I didn't have one, but I knew enough people who loathed them (including the MS faithful) because they were always crashy and unstable.

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