I disagree there. Almost any device can certainly run Eclipse or whatever latest IDE. ... in a chroot. This is not a differentiating factor these days. On the other hand -- at least for me -- a differentiating factor is that the APIs used in Sailfish were more or less tha same APIs I use on desktop linux. No useless Java layer, no ObjC layer. So actual desktop linux programs have an higher "integration" with the rest of the phone. This was not much the case in Sailfish, though...