#maemo — Public Fediverse posts
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@Martina NeumayerThis is supposed to be a phone that women will also use
You honestly think that every smartphone out there has the same target audience as the Apple iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy?
This is supposed to be a phone that geeks will use first and foremost. The most hardcore of them. The direct opposite of “tech-illiterate”.
In case you didn't know: The new Jolla Phone is From The Makers Of™ the first Jolla Phone. And the Nokia N9. They were all targetted at the same audience who actually bought the direct predecessor of the N9, the Nokia N900.
I mean, look at the N900. Now, look at the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4 which came out before and after the N900. Notice how thick and clunky the N900 is in comparison especially with the iPhone 4? Why would someone buy that?
Because it ran Maemo. And because it had a slide-out hardware QWERTY keyboard.
Why would someone want that operating system if there were thousands of times more apps available for iOS?
Because Maemo is a fork of Debian GNU/Linux and still largely works and handles like Debian GNU/Linux. All the way to the “app store” being nothing but a pretty frontend for the apt package manager.
People who bought the Nokia N900 also bought second-hand IBM ThinkPad T43 or T60 business laptops with no operating system on them, just to install some Linux distro. No matter how much better a MacBook Air looked. No matter if almost everyone else was gushing over Windows 7 back then.
They also bought Linksys WRT54GL routers with the very intent to replace the stock firmware with OpenWrt, a firmware that offers professional industry-grade features, but that doesn't even have a Web interface. If you take your phone to ssh into your router and configure or upgrade it or check the logs, a hardware keyboard is much more convenient than a sleek design.
They also bought tickets to the annual Chaos Communication Congress.
Many of them bought the first Jolla Phone, hoping that they could acquire a TOHKBD, a slide-out hardware QWERTY keyboard that could be attached to the bottom of the phone instead of its own stock bottom, The Other Half. They were disappointed that the Nokia N950 didn't go into mass-production.
Some of those who missed both the first Jolla phone and the community-issued Jolla C opted for a grey-import Intex Aqua Fish, made in India for India, because it was basically a Jolla C without The Other Half that didn't even know it was actually a Jolla C. Not few of them hacked their Aqua Fish so it thought it's a Jolla C, and so they'd get system upgrades earlier.
The new Jolla Phone is an up-to-date take on the same principle as the old Jolla Phone. All the way up to The Other Half. Like, it's one of its key features that the bottom can be removed without exposing any circuitry, and that a third-party replacement with extra features can be attached, e.g. an additional battery or a more high-end camera or a slide-out hardware keyboard.
However, this requires the bottom half of the phone to be easily removeable. With an iPhone-like case, this isn't possible. Also, this requires the bottom half of the phone to have a rather simple shape so that any third-party Other Half matches the top in shape, and so that it's easy to manufacture. Other Halves are usually made by people in their spare time in small batches and never by big corporations.
By the way: If you expect the Jolla Phone to have anywhere close to as many apps, especially commercial apps, as the iPhone or a typical Android phone, you'll be disappointed, too. Literally all third-party apps available for Sailfish OS are free-as-in-freedom and open-source. And there's no Google Play Store.
Bottom line: Don't expect a MacBook Air from Tuxedo Computers. And don't expect Arch Linux to be every bit as “user-friendly” as Windows 10 or iOS.
@jolla
#Jolla #Jolla Phone #Jolla C #Nokia N900 #Nokia N9 #Intex Aqua Fish #Linux #GNU/Linux #Maemo #Sailfish OS -
Ce gars a ressuscité un Nokia N900 avec des supercondensateurs
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://korben.info/nokia-n900-supercondensateurs-usb-c-diy.html
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@gtronix also. ♥️ #maemo #meego #sailfishos ♥️ if they ever make a qwerty version then i wouldn't even be able to help myself.
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Czytam, że Maemo (kiedyś linux od Nokii) ma się dobrze i działa (oprócz ofc N9/N900) np. na PinePhone, również z klawiaturą:
https://fosstodon.org/@bradlinder/115521728909652917
Więcej o tym systemie przeportowanym na Debiana:
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Maemo Leste is a mobile Linux distro that carries on the legacy of Nokia's short-lived Linux-based smartphone OS. Ccurrently based on Devuan Daedalus (Debian Bookworm), work is underway to migrate to Excalibur (Trixie). Here's a summary of recent developments. https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-2025-daedalus-release.html #MobileLinux #MaemoLeste #Maemo #Debian #Duvian
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Maemo Leste is a mobile Linux distro that carries on the legacy of Nokia's short-lived Linux-based smartphone OS. Ccurrently based on Devuan Daedalus (Debian Bookworm), work is underway to migrate to Excalibur (Trixie). Here's a summary of recent developments. https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-2025-daedalus-release.html #MobileLinux #MaemoLeste #Maemo #Debian #Duvian
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Maemo Leste is a mobile Linux distro that carries on the legacy of Nokia's short-lived Linux-based smartphone OS. Ccurrently based on Devuan Daedalus (Debian Bookworm), work is underway to migrate to Excalibur (Trixie). Here's a summary of recent developments. https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-2025-daedalus-release.html #MobileLinux #MaemoLeste #Maemo #Debian #Duvian
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Maemo Leste is a mobile Linux distro that carries on the legacy of Nokia's short-lived Linux-based smartphone OS. Ccurrently based on Devuan Daedalus (Debian Bookworm), work is underway to migrate to Excalibur (Trixie). Here's a summary of recent developments. https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-2025-daedalus-release.html #MobileLinux #MaemoLeste #Maemo #Debian #Duvian
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Maemo Leste is a mobile Linux distro that carries on the legacy of Nokia's short-lived Linux-based smartphone OS. Ccurrently based on Devuan Daedalus (Debian Bookworm), work is underway to migrate to Excalibur (Trixie). Here's a summary of recent developments. https://maemo-leste.github.io/maemo-leste-2025-daedalus-release.html #MobileLinux #MaemoLeste #Maemo #Debian #Duvian
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maemo-leste is such a cursed fucking distro name please rename it lmao
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maemo-leste is such a cursed fucking distro name please rename it lmao
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maemo-leste is such a cursed fucking distro name please rename it lmao
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maemo-leste is such a cursed fucking distro name please rename it lmao
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maemo-leste is such a cursed fucking distro name please rename it lmao
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Pulled out my SailfishOS devices again in Sept ’25. Still love the gestures + UI, but ecosystem and value prop remain shaky. Not daily-driver ready yet. Full write-up here:
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RETRACTION: #openstreetmap IS NOT blocking my favorite client.
But I DID jump to conclusions.I'll try to be more thorough before complaining, even though I'm failing in recent cases.
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Leafpad to prosty i lekki edytor tekstu zbudowany na GTK+, który kładzie nacisk na prostotę. Ponieważ rozwój koncentruje się na utrzymaniu wagi na minimalnym poziomie, w edytorze zaimplementowano tylko najważniejsze funkcje. https://biznes.linuxiarze.pl/leafpad/ #texteditor #linux #bsd #maemo
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Conboy – a note taking application that works as a desktop wiki on the Maemo platform. Conboy can read and write the Tomboy file format to be compatible with Tomboy on Linux, Mac and Windows. https://archiveapp.org/conboy/ #notes #maemo
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A bit of #computinghistory : part 3 of "20 years of Linux on the desktop".
When mobile started to disrupt desktop computing…
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20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 3)
Read chapter 3 of the book I’m currently writing about the history of Linux on the desktop.
https://ploum.net/2025-03-08-linux_desktop3.html
Still looking for an agent or a publisher to make a dead-tree version of it…
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@decibyte Maemo, Qt, 770, N8**, N9**... I feel very fortunate for having been there most of that ride. The N900 was a memorable device indeed. I have crossed paths with a few former users over the years, people seemed to really like it.
#Maemo (and that side of #Nokia) was a very exciting and ultimately very sad European tech & business story.
@qt is still doing well! Very good for them. The trolls have been as flexible and tout-terrain as their software all along.
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I remember when Soundcloud started back in 2007-2008. Back then I worked at the #Maemo team and my colleague Jussi came from #Berlin explaining how cool this project and these people were. Soundcloud would become a platform supporting a lot of the music and the artists I like.
Soundcloud has lost its cool, sure, but look what happened to the rest. And I have been a paying customer in the past couple of years and I think they are improving. Not the rest.
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@fell Xfce should be usable on #N900. But you should really take a look at Maemo Leste, you get working system for little effort. #Maemo, #MaemoLeste, I guess? -
@fell Xfce should be usable on #N900. But you should really take a look at Maemo Leste, you get working system for little effort. #Maemo, #MaemoLeste, I guess? -
@fell Xfce should be usable on #N900. But you should really take a look at Maemo Leste, you get working system for little effort. #Maemo, #MaemoLeste, I guess? -
@fell Xfce should be usable on #N900. But you should really take a look at Maemo Leste, you get working system for little effort. #Maemo, #MaemoLeste, I guess? -
that was a nice phone! and a nice computer!
#nokia #maemo #n900
[danct12@fosstodon ~]$ :idle: wrote the following post Sun, 10 Nov 2024 19:30:17 +0100
Today is #Nokia #N900 15th anniversary.
Nokia N900 was released on November 11th, 2009 and is one of the few last mobile Linux devices.
It is also the last device to be shipped with the Maemo operating system.
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The keyboard was the killer feature! I still have one over here...
It was a bit heavy in weight, but that made it also feel very sturdy.
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@danct12 #Nokia did a (soft) launch party for the #N900 at the BFI on the South Bank in London in September 2009.
lcuk had had a prototype, so we were able to do a cool demo: https://youtu.be/yk27PenpAz0
_EDIT:_ I note wryly that Nokia's blog post about this is now on the #Microsoft website: https://blogs.windows.com/devices/2009/09/04/n900-to-appear-in-london-next-week/
