Thread: what n900/maemo can do and sailfish can't
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2014-12-09 , 23:10
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Here are a few more reasons off the top of my head:
  • Native X11 drivers.
  • X11 forwarding makes it easy to display and interact with applications on my desktop and vice versa.
  • The work going on to upstream kernel patches. You can already boot the latest upstream kernels without needing any additional patches (Note: I've only tested Debian with latest kernels).
  • The above point makes it very easy to run a full server/desktop Linux distro.
  • It's easy to get hold of a spare battery.
  • It doesn't use systemd.
  • The community effort to provide a completely free implementation of Fremantle.
  • The primary development framework is free software.
  • No restricted policy regarding GPLv3 packages.
  • Multitasking that doesn't ever suspend processes automatically.
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DebiaN900 - Native Debian on the N900. Deprecated in favour of Maemo Leste.

Maemo Leste for N950 and N9 (currently broken).
Devuan for N950 and N9.

Mobile devices with mainline Linux support - Help needed with documentation.

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