On 17/11/10 12:59, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
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> Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:
>
>> 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
> The most open smartphone I'm aware of is the Nokia N900.
>
>> wifi hardware, etc. So, in this regard: has someone managed
>> to install obsd on some of these newer phones?
> No.  Also, compare the user interface and applications useful on a
> phone with what's available for OpenBSD.
>
>> I understand that most of these have an OS that is basically
>> a modified linux;
> Android and Maemo are Linux-based.  Symbian, iOS, Bada, Blackberry
> and Windows Mobile are not.
>
>> does anyone know about a varinat that would have an OS based on BSD?
> Apple's iOS is the most BSD-ish.  But that is utterly closed, and
> the iPhone is dongled to the proprietary iTunes program (Mac OS,
> MS Windows).
>


Nokia N900 is actually the most open smartphone there is.
Some andriod-based phones are open, on others, there's no chance of
installing another OS.
I've heard of a couple of linux distros running on N900, and you can
actually dual-boot on it, which would be nice __while__ you're trying to
get openbsd running (assuming it doesn't work out of the box, which I
don't expect it to).

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Hugo Osvaldo Barrera