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Cheers Gordon sorry to hear about the death to urs! :-) Sent from my iPhone On 10 Jun 2011, at 19:40, Dava <davavanstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gordon Henderson wrote: >> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Stephen Harris wrote: >> >>> Hi all, I was recently thinking about installing linux on my phone, then >>> realised it wasn't possible on my current phone, but I remembered Gordon >>> showing me his model of Nokia which had Debian installed, but I can't for >>> the life of me remember what the model of it was, couldnt help me could u? >> >> It's the N900. >> >> Currently broke after I dropped it one time too many. (No display). I reckon it's >> fixable but am waiting on the insewerants to get back to me. >> >> However I have to say that I've given up with Nokia now that they've sold out to >> MS. And there was a distinct lack of apps. for the N900 too. (Not that I felt I >> was lacking myself, however). And while it's a nice platform, it was missing just >> one or 2 things - it really is a tablet device with a phone attached. >> >> However I've just sold my soul to Google and bought an HTC Desire Z. They're >> relatively cheap right now too - I got mine from mobile fun >> http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/sim-free-htc-desire-z-p26005.htm >> >> (With an ugly, but functional protector case) >> >> I'll root it eventually and put something like CyanogenMod on it, but for now >> it's out of the box with the HTC sense interface. >> >> I've decided that if I want something mobile with a usable Linux (ie. Debian), >> then my acer aspire one will suffice! >> >> For now. >> >> Gordon >> > Still got my N900 sitting here, put android on it and was trying to get ubuntu to > run natively and ended up giving up and getting a Desire HD instead. Absolutely > love it, ended up romming it after 2 days of ownership. I highly recommend > Cyanogenmod for anyone looking to venture into rooting and modding. > > Dave > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq