Sorry, replied to the wrong mailing list --- On Fri, 13/11/09, Daniel Sobey <dns_ser...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Daniel Sobey <dns_ser...@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: Basic Ubuntu 9.10 installation question > To: "ubuntu mailing list" <ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com> > Received: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 9:13 AM > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 13:12 +1100, > Russell Coker wrote: > > > > Mobile phones are NEVER designed for Linux, they are > designed to run a > > locked-down proprietary environment which may involve > a Linux kernel and some > > GPL user-space. > > > > This was true a few years ago before the openmoko. > > Everything except the modem firmware is open source (it > would not be > legal to have this modifiable ). This includes the Linux > kernel, the > mobile phone stack the user space interfaces. The circuit > diagrams are > cc licensed so you could potentially build your own phone > from scratch > if you know how to solder. > > Android is also open source and you can hack your phone or > get a > developers phone where you can fully flash with your own > software. > The syanogen mod is a distribution of this and everything > is open source > after google complained and had them remove the proprietary > google apps. > > Symbian is now or will soon be fully open source, I have > not yet looked > at it and do not know if enough is open and if you could > potentially use > it to build your own phone os from the ground up. > > Nokia is also developing a phone stack for the n900 > Internet tablet. > The stack is not yet open source but nokia has stated that > they will > release the source code soon so you should be able to use > it in the > future. You should be able to flash your own stack to this > phone. > > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
