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".)

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