[maemo-users] Maemo different from GNU/Linux?

[From: Andre Klapper]

Am Freitag, den 11.12.2009, 15:28 +0100 schrieb Clemens Eisserer:
> Hi Marcel,
> 
> >  Having experienced the
> > Neo Freerunner as "just like the Linux next door", I'd like to know what
> > exactly is different from a typical (Could someone define that? :) )
> > Linux environment.
> 
> Well, its just like Linux next door, with the exception that there's a
> lot of proprietary stuff arround, even for hardware support.
> I still have to run my Nokia-770 on a (buggy and unstable!!)
> 2.6.16.27-kernel, with a quite buggy closed-source wlan driver.

770 was four years ago, and for the N800 and N810 there is
http://stlc45xx.garage.maemo.org/ as an open-source wlan driver.

I really prefer to discuss the present state of Maemo as I assume that
this was the intention of the original post.

andre

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Andre Klapper (maemo.org bugmaster)