martedì 8 settembre 2009

"Questo è Linux dalla Finlandia" ;)

clipped from risto.kurppa.fi
La community del telefonino open source, ormai alla frutta a causa dell'essere stata abbandonata dal produttore cinesino, appare sempre più allarmata dal prossimo arrivo di questo superlativo aggeggio che presto finirà anche nelle mie mani

Tentano di fare addirittura sarcasmo: "questo è Linux dalla Finlandia". Secondo me se la stanno facendo addosso.

Nel frattempo mi scarico i tre video ad alta risoluzione (grazie a Keepvid.com) e me li guardo per sbavare un poco SLURP!!

3 commenti:

  1. Anonimomartedì, settembre 08, 2009 10:29:00 PM

    Hi there & thanks for linking to my blog post!

    I'm sure you know both Linux & Nokia do come from Finland - and I'm proud of both of them (though Nokia could do a bit better on open source -wice)

    And Openmoko's not doing bad either, SHR is a nice distribution and some great steps are taken all the time, see http://risto.kurppa.fi/blog/great-news-from-the-openmoko-community/

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  2. Urgentissimo!mercoledì, settembre 09, 2009 12:36:00 AM

    Hi Risto!

    I'm a long time follower of Planet Openmoko news (in which all of your posts are echoed). I was willing to buy a Freeruunner, but was somewhat disappointed by both the software side (slow progress, multiple distributions) and the hardware side (large gap with state-of-the-art hardware, battery issues, no more GTA03, etc).

    I realized that a post-Freerunner fully open-source phone is yet to come. I am willing to buy a "tainted kernel" N900 (already bought a Beagleboard which has closed-source 3D-acceleration and DSP), because since the first OpenMoko-based phone I did not yet find a reasonable solution.

    Yes, Nokia could do better on the open-source side (and the Maemo 5 SDK is somewhat weird to install and use, apparently even worse than the old brain-damaged Symbian SDK).

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  3. Urgentissimo!mercoledì, settembre 09, 2009 12:50:00 AM

    The Maemo ecosystem easily outnumbers the OpenMoko - the N900 IMHO will be a true challenge to developers world. Sounds like the OpenMoko time is near to expiring.

    But I don't expect my word be taken as gold. In a few years the scenario could radically change. Now, with the N900 coming, I just feel I have even less reasons to try an OpenMoko.

    It has been a hard world for those -like me- searching for an open source phone "on which I'll have my softwares running".

    Thank you for your comment.
    alf

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