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2010-11-15
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Short answer: Nope. There are parts of the maemo OS that are closed from what I remember.
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Originally Posted by ysss
They're maemo and MeeGo...
"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
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2010-11-15
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Here is MeeGo 1.1 running on a Nexus One:
http://mynokiablog.com/2010/11/03/ga...-instructions/
http://mynokiablog.com/2010/11/03/ga...-instructions/
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2010-11-16
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Why would you smear a diamond with dog faeces
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2010-11-16
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Originally Posted by Bourdain
Right! Wipe that Nexus One off the MeeGo so it can shine!
Why would you smear a diamond with dog faeces
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2010-11-16
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Well I'm pretty sure if the N900 community was able to polish up Maemo5 (user interface etc etc) and Nokia agreed to open-source those closed sectors (mostly drivers, camera stack etc) ... then there may have been some interest.
It would've been sick if things played out like that and we saw (for instance) a polished Maemo5 on the EPIC 4G/Milestone2 or any other cool phone!
It would've been sick if things played out like that and we saw (for instance) a polished Maemo5 on the EPIC 4G/Milestone2 or any other cool phone!
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2010-11-16
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Originally Posted by Laughing Man
It's only the drivers(for n900) that are closed. So, if OP will be able to write his own drivers for droid, it should work.
Short answer: Nope. There are parts of the maemo OS that are closed from what I remember.
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2010-11-16
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The Android should have its own drivers and the closed ones for the N900 wont work anyway since the Hardware is different.
Or am i mixing up something?
Or am i mixing up something?
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2010-11-16
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Originally Posted by ChoMar
Drivers for Android are also closed-source(probably). So, it doesn't really help. Even if we had source-code, I don't think we would be able to just compile them for maemo.
The Android should have its own drivers and the closed ones for the N900 wont work anyway since the Hardware is different.
Or am i mixing up something?
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2010-11-16
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Well some Android device drivers are open source. I believe Samsung is open sourcing their drivers for their Galaxy line. But even then I don't think it's fully open drivers. Not sure about that though.
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Originally Posted by ysss
They're maemo and MeeGo...
"Meamo!" sounds like what Zorro would say to catherine zeta jones... after she slaps him for looking at her dirtily...
I remember the main problem of installing linux on phones was driver support. the Linux kernel is a monolithic kernel so the drivers are built into the kernel itself. Although android uses a forked kernel, I have installed other kernels in debian rather easily.
So, couldn't I install Maemo with the Android kernel onto, say, my motorola droid? Or is there something else preventing this process?