What is the smallest device that will run Fedora 12 ? Evolution ? Kontact ?

Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 18:18:43 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 10:58 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 December 2009 10:42:50 Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 10:00 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 23 December 2009 09:53:56 Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > > > So what is the smallest practical device that will run F12 ?
> > > >
> > > > How else could one run apps like Evolution and Contact on a small
> > > > device ?  Could they be made to run on a Symbian device ?  What about
> > > > Android ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > >
> > > The nokia N900 runs debian, you can open a terminal, tweak the sources
> > > and install things via dpkg.  I have a co-worker that has one - it's
> > > pretty impressive.
> > 
> > I felt foolish posting this question but now I am very glad I did.
> > 
> > Is the n900 running Debian out of the box or did your friend load it
> > with Debian ?  Is Maemo Debian ?
> > 
> > What Linux apps will it run ?  Does it have Gnome/Qt/KDE ?   It must
> > support Qt apps because Nokia bought Qt.
> > 
> > Has anyone here fooled around with putting mainstream Linux apps on the
> > N900 ?
> > 
> 
> It's Maemo Debian, came that way out of the box
> I've read a few posts about folks installing mainstream apps on it with 
> success. I dont think it has KDE/Gnome, it's a touch-screen maemo specific 
> interface.
> 
> I'll know more in the coming weeks, Mine is due to be delivered today

Please let me/us (?) know how you like it.  It would be SO sweet to be
running Linux on our phones, laptops and servers !  One OS and so much
flexibility, not have to learn some new SDK, etc. 

We are quite disappointed with my wife's iPhone.  Everything is so
locked up. 






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