On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:
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> My twelve years old cell phone needs to get replaced,
> most probably with one of these newer smartphones.
>
> Beside other things, I want it to be as "open" as possible:
> a freely-available OS, a class-compliant USB storage, a documented
> wifi hardware, etc. So, in this regard: has someone managed
> to install obsd on some of these newer phones?
>
> I understand that most of these have an OS that is basically
> a modified linux; does anyone know about a varinat that would
> have an OS based on BSD?
>
>        Thanks
>
>                Jan
>
>


The most open phone I'm aware of is Nokia N900. It runs Maemo, and can
run full blown Debian, AFAIK. Never heard of anyone running OpenBSD on
one, but perhaps it is possible? I'm assuming it would take some
hacking, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900

I'd like to play with one at some point, but I'm a little too broke
for that at the moment.