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2 Maemo Leste keeps kicking in!
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5 The ultimate hacker's toy project: a OpenSource powered hand-held computer.
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8 Where to start from?
9 There can be two walls preventing every Linux enthusiast from having its own phone with a Linux Powered sticket on it:
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11 .IP 1.
12 hardware support: getting Linux to boot on these twisted hardware setups that smartphones are can be frustrating.
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14 .IP 2.
15 application support: writing all the tools that make a plain unix shell useable as a phone.
16 It may be as simple as a daemon watching incoming phone call from hardware abstractions (those from in 1.)
17 and playing a ringtone.wav whenever a call comes in,
18 it still has to be written.
19 Same goes for a keyboard application if it uses a touch-screen.
20 Same goes for anything.
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23 Since it goes beyond the scope of a week-end hack,
24 collaboration takes place for making these projects happen.
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27 Maemo Leste is now existing since more than four years, and keeps being developed at good pace.
28 It even shines where Android does not:
29 it uses mainline Linux kernel instead of forks that never get upgraded nor contributed back to Linux.
30 This means that all software officially supported by Maemo Leste might also be available to many more Linux-based projects.
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33 Of course, there are non-official porting efforts for more hardware underway to become a completely supported target.
34 Like it is for every operating system project.
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37 Maemo Leste, the project bringing a real UNIX shell where you only had a Android Java ecosystem,
38 featuring GPS chips reverse engineering, and a working phone module.
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41 The support for the inexpensive PinePhone means you can get a fully working linux phone in your pocket.
42 Grab it while it is hot, the lack of bloated prebuilt application forced into it by the vendor means it will not catch fire!
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45 https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-sixteenth-update-november-and-december-2021-january-april-2022.html
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