Thread: Neo900 - finally a successor of N900
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2017-08-21 , 19:23
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
I'd consider it odd to want to run android (or android-derivative OS) on anything... Weel you might have reasons which I don't understand.

I'm pretty happy if I'm able to run something sensible like Fre(e)mantle on it, or maybe just plain Devuan.
Fremantle isn't completely open source though, and probably never will be. Android won the battle for developer participation, which means it has had almost a decade's worth of spit, polish and extensions. Even limited to packages available on F-Droid, it's still far more usable than practically any other FOSS platform in existence.

The ultimate platform for the neo900 would be a Mer/Hildon combo, as has been suggested in the past for the N900. It's just that existing efforts to modernise the N900's platform have been even more half-baked than Maemo 5, MeeGo and Sailfish have ever been. No one has found the recipe for an elegant FOSS mobile OS, yet.
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