On 17/11/10 12:59, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > 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). >
Nokia N900 is actually the most open smartphone there is. Some andriod-based phones are open, on others, there's no chance of installing another OS. I've heard of a couple of linux distros running on N900, and you can actually dual-boot on it, which would be nice __while__ you're trying to get openbsd running (assuming it doesn't work out of the box, which I don't expect it to). -- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
