On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:51:00 -0600 Marko Kraljevic <krasnaya.zve...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:00 AM, 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 > > wifi hardware, etc. So, in this regard: has someone managed > > to install obsd on some of these newer phones? > > > > I understand that most of these have an OS that is basically > > a modified linux; does anyone know about a varinat that would > > have an OS based on BSD? > > > > Thanks > > > > Jan > > > > > > > The most open phone I'm aware of is Nokia N900. It runs Maemo, and can > run full blown Debian, AFAIK. Never heard of anyone running OpenBSD on > one, but perhaps it is possible? I'm assuming it would take some > hacking, though. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900 > > I'd like to play with one at some point, but I'm a little too broke > for that at the moment. > So offtopic, but i'll bite. Yes, N900 is the only phone i'd consider atm. If i'd have to buy a linux phone (no alternative) it'd be a N900 and put Meego on it. Android is just too restrictive. The HTC 7 Pro hw looks nice, but without any docu or source ... Me personally will stick with my 6820 until i can test the first real Meego querty slider. (Now if there were 15k+ ppl preordering a phone with openbsd+pf there might be a chance to get something "good".)
