EPISODE · Nov 9, 2021 · 2H 7M
Linux on mobile with Linmob
from Cyberdeck Users Weekly · host Paul Miller
Peter's way to mobile Linux Motorola A780: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_A780 Motorola A910: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_A910 Openmoko Neo FreeRunner: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner Really old stuff Hardware 2000: Agenda VR3: The first Linux PDA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_VR3 2002: Sharp Zaurus (SL-5500): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus 2004: Motorola E680, A780 Software GPE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPE_Palmtop_Environment Opie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Palmtop_Integrated_Environment Gone Websites handhelds.org https://web.archive.org/web/20090304221733/http://www.handhelds.org/geeklog/index.php linuxtogo.org https://web.archive.org/web/20090318024046/http://www.linuxtogo.org:80/ Nokia N900, lineage and offsprings Maemo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo (apologies for forgetting Maemo Leste, it's awesome. But: As long as it does not ship with a GUI for calling and texting, I doubt it's super relevant.) http://maemo.org/ Nokia N900 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900 Nokia N9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N9 Sailfish OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS Jolla https://jolla.com/ 10 Year Anniversary blog post: https://blog.jolla.com/happy-birthday-jolla/ Facebook Live Event video: https://www.facebook.com/jollaofficial/ (starts after ~5 minutes) Running a GNU/Linux userland on an Android kernel Original Jolla announcement, that they would run Android hardware https://www.theregister.com/2013/09/17/jolla_sailfish_os_android_support/ libhybris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybris_%28software%29 Halium https://halium.org/ Ubuntu Touch Ubuntu Edge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edge Ubuntu Touch (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch ArsTechnica coverage of the announcement https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/canonical-unveils-ubuntu-phone-os-that-doubles-as-a-full-pc/ Ubuntu.com: <a href="https://ubuntu.com/blog/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-an
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Peter's way to mobile Linux Motorola A780: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_A780 Motorola A910: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_A910 Openmoko Neo FreeRunner: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner Really old stuff Hardware 2000: Agenda VR3: The first Linux PDA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_VR3 2002: Sharp Zaurus (SL-5500): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus 2004: Motorola E680, A780 Software GPE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPE_Palmtop_Environment Opie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Palmtop_Integrated_Environment Gone Websites handhelds.org https://web.archive.org/web/20090304221733/http://www.handhelds.org/geeklog/index.php linuxtogo.org https://web.archive.org/web/20090318024046/http://www.linuxtogo.org:80/ Nokia N900, lineage and offsprings Maemo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo (apologies for forgetting Maemo Leste, it's awesome. But: As long as it does not ship with a GUI for calling and texting, I doubt it's super relevant.) http://maemo.org/ Nokia N900 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900 Nokia N9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N9 Sailfish OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS Jolla https://jolla.com/ 10 Year Anniversary blog post: https://blog.jolla.com/happy-birthday-jolla/ Facebook Live Event video: https://www.facebook.com/jollaofficial/ (starts after ~5 minutes) Running a GNU/Linux userland on an Android kernel Original Jolla announcement, that they would run Android hardware https://www.theregister.com/2013/09/17/jolla_sailfish_os_android_support/ libhybris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybris_%28software%29 Halium https://halium.org/ Ubuntu Touch Ubuntu Edge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edge Ubuntu Touch (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch ArsTechnica coverage of the announcement https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/canonical-unveils-ubuntu-phone-os-that-doubles-as-a-full-pc/ Ubuntu.com: <a href="https://ubuntu.com/blog/growing-ubuntu-for-cloud-an
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