@danct12 wait really?
âŚwait, 2009 was 15 years ago x.x
@Rhababerbarbar @danct12 Maemo was a regular Debian-based GNU/Linux distro, which Android is not.
@Rhababerbarbar @danct12 Mostly just different userland, so âLinuxâ in the sense of âDesktop Linuxâ. glibc vs bionic. X11 vs SurfaceFlinger. D-Bus vs Binder. Native binaries vs Dalvik/NDK. dpkg vs apk. upstart (iirc) vs Android init.
@danct12 #Nokia did a (soft) launch party for the #N900 at the BFI on the South Bank in London in September 2009.
lcuk had had a prototype, so we were able to do a cool demo: https://youtu.be/yk27PenpAz0
_EDIT:_ I note wryly that Nokia's blog post about this is now on the #Microsoft website: https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2009/09/04/n900-to-appear-in-london-next-week/
@pavel @danct12 @Rhababerbarbar Sure, it wasn't even close to fully FLOSS and it had some creative partitioning and packaging hacks to fit things into NAND... but it was still a perfectly cromulent GNU/Linux distro. You can install plenty of proprietary crap on a Debian laptop as well:)
@pavel @guardeddon It's also worth noting that the N800 is ARMv6 (I think with hardware fpu?) and some distros doesn't support anything below v7.