Just a small correction:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Alberto Garcia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agarcia@igalia.com">agarcia@igalia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
People have already ported software that is much more complex than<br>
telnet, such as OpenOffice, KDE or Pidgin.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Nobody has ported OpenOffice. I developed a hack that runs OpenOffice in a Debian chroot.<br><br>This same Debian chroot can also run every command line tool available within Debian, including telnet, nmap and netcat. All of these (and hundreds more) are available with a simple apt-get install.<br>
<br>Ubuntu has also made a tablet-compatible armel distribution available, and so you can chroot into an Ubuntu rootfs as well.<br><br>It is also possible to set up an entire development environment in the chroot that allows you to build Debian or Ubuntu source packages on the tablet.<br>
<br>I built the entire Enlightenment e17 suite on-tablet using an Ubuntu chroot and a turnkey build script that I downloaded. It took the tablet 8-10 hours to do it ;-) ... but it worked!<br><br>I don't believe it is Nokia's responsibility to provide developers with hacker's tools. Especially since they are free for the taking in several other places.<br>