Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > My twelve years old cell phone needs to get replaced, > most probably with one of these newer smartphones. > > Beside other things, I want it to be as "open" as possible: > a freely-available OS, a class-compliant USB storage, a documented
The most open smartphone I'm aware of is the Nokia N900. > wifi hardware, etc. So, in this regard: has someone managed > to install obsd on some of these newer phones? No. Also, compare the user interface and applications useful on a phone with what's available for OpenBSD. > I understand that most of these have an OS that is basically > a modified linux; Android and Maemo are Linux-based. Symbian, iOS, Bada, Blackberry and Windows Mobile are not. > does anyone know about a varinat that would have an OS based on BSD? Apple's iOS is the most BSD-ish. But that is utterly closed, and the iPhone is dongled to the proprietary iTunes program (Mac OS, MS Windows). -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
