On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:53 PM, green <greenfreedo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> shawn wilson wrote at 2011-05-03 16:12 -0500: > > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 4:47 PM, green <greenfreedo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > shawn wilson wrote at 2011-05-03 13:19 -0500: > > >> For instance, I can ssh into my box from my phone and open vi. You can > get > > >> vi and open it on your n800. > > > > > > Well frankly I do not even want to run vi. I prefer nano for a > handheld > > > device. And "apt-get install nano" fails with "couldn't find package > nano". > > > So I have to build it myself. Wait, aren't we talking about running > > > *Debian*? And what is Debian without its thousands of packages, ready > to be > > > installed with a simple command? > > > > yes, some architectures do have more supported packages than others. > > and, if we get debian on another platform without financial backing, > > we're liable to have even less support. i'm not arguing against it. i > > like playing with bleeding edge stuff - i won't run a device i depend > > on like my primary phone on it. but, i might get a secondary one just > > to play. > > My intention was to give an example of how the n810 does not run Debian. > Debian certainly does have an armel nano package. > But Maemo is a Debian derivative, just like Knoppix, Ubuntu, etc. And they do have a "real" Debian that you can run in a chroot. *shrug* --b
