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1 .SH tgtimes | |
2 Maemo Leste keeps kicking in! | |
3 .2C 31v | |
4 . | |
5 .PP | |
6 The ultimate hacker's toy project: a OpenSource powered hand-held comput… | |
7 . | |
8 .PP | |
9 Where to start from? | |
10 There can be two walls preventing every Linux enthusiast from having its… | |
11 . | |
12 .IP 1. | |
13 hardware support: getting Linux to boot on the twisted hardware setups o… | |
14 . | |
15 .IP 2. | |
16 application support: writing all the tools that make a plain unix shell … | |
17 that we usually take for granted on a phone operating system. | |
18 It may be as simple as a daemon watching incoming phone call from hardwa… | |
19 and playing a ringtone.wav whenever a call comes in, | |
20 it still has to be written. | |
21 Same goes for a keyboard application if it uses a touch-screen. | |
22 Same goes for anything. | |
23 . | |
24 .PP | |
25 Since it goes beyond the scope of a week-end hack, | |
26 collaboration takes place for making these projects happen. | |
27 . | |
28 .PP | |
29 Maemo Leste is now existing since more than four years, and keeps being … | |
30 It even shines where Android does not: | |
31 it uses mainline Linux kernel instead of forks that never get upgraded n… | |
32 This means that all software officially supported by Maemo Leste might a… | |
33 . | |
34 .PP | |
35 Of course, there are non-official porting efforts for more hardware unde… | |
36 Like it is for every operating system project. | |
37 . | |
38 .PP | |
39 Maemo Leste, the project bringing a real UNIX shell where you only had a… | |
40 featuring GPS chips reverse engineering, and a working phone module. | |
41 . | |
42 .PP | |
43 The support for the inexpensive PinePhone means you can get a fully work… | |
44 Grab it while it is hot, the lack of bloated prebuilt application forced… | |
45 . | |
46 .FS | |
47 https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-sixteenth-update-november-and- | |
48 december-2021-january-april-2022.html | |
49 .FE |