Re: What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 2016?
 

One big thank you for this information:
Asking for a quotation now, let us see how much they ask for installing Debian on it :D
With 4gb of ram it should blow past anything Ubuntu does.
(8gb would be nice but probably chugs battery)
The option of getting 256gb disk is intriguing.

It uses Intel wifi,
not some bottom-of-the-septic-tank Broadcom scumcrust.

Not sure if I read that correctly but a ublox GPS works okay,
if that is actually inside the device.

It has a sim card slot, but not clear on what runs it.

It is a bit heavy,
making the n900 look like a rock-star...

Re: What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 2016?
 

Well what DO you use then?

IMHO text editor is one of the most important pieces of software since you keep on staring at it for the most of your day... it better be damn good. :D

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The N9 was canned in "non-esoteric" markets where they wanted to sell the Lumia 800 instead, so as not to cause confusion as they looked visually almost identical.

Without Elop and the board diverting to Windows Phone, N9 would have gone on sale everywhere, with a US variant with the right bands (the same hardware that got capacitive buttons and was used as the Lumia 800).
Quickly followed up by the Lauta for nerds/business.

Devs would hopefully have been interested as the Qt-everywhere story was just starting to actually work (runtimes deployed to Symbian, native on Harmattan), so Symbian devs (of which there were still some) and other smartphone devs would have been able to target a large pre-existing Symbian and new Harmattan userbase with relative ease.

It would have been a beautiful thing.
Maybe.
A small chance at least.

As opposed to the zero chance WP had of "saving" Nokia, as echoed by all commentators at the time. The most charitable assumed MS had something almost ready up their sleeves for WP 7.5/8 which would have really changed the game, that the Nokia board were privy to. They did not.
And the rest is history.

Re: What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 2016?
 

There is a downloadable user manual which adds a little insight. It has accessories like a keyboard and a dock. The WWAN is data-only and typically use linux-friendly pcie cards, like sierra wireless or erricson.

Re: What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 2016?
 

Sorry but I do not want a keyboard accessory. I have a TOHKBD and I ended up not using it after all. Too awkward. If it ain't integrated, I am not interested.

Re: What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 2016?
 

I received an answer,
but the answer was simply a question about
"...your application or how you intend to use this ..."
which indicates they are not selling a product,
they want to control the user.
Good luck with that marketing strategy.:cool:

Just another authoritarian dead end.

Re: What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 2016?
 

Sublime mostly these days though I've also been through Textmate, BBedit, Brackets, Espresso, Coda and a few others.

On Android, usually DroidEdit.

Have been known to paste into vi/nano/pico from a GUI editor. :D

Re: What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 2016?
 

I don't think you need the mainstream users to make a Linux device commercially viable. Everyone that wants to support Linux / Free software should spend their money wisely.
Buying hardware with a proprietary OS installed while there are free options is a bad (long term) decision IMO. Seeing that someone like Linus Torvalds bought a MacBook Air 'because the screen was better' was really disappointing. I recently found out that some of the guys from Bad Voltage are owning iPhones.. wtf..

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This stance overlooks the fact that some people have very specific needs not being addressed by the FOSS types that are obsessing on the things that they want.

The mainstream for the most part just don't care - they want to be able to conveniently share/communicate/do things that other people are doing as well. And by convenient, I mean easily done. And on a product that's socially acceptable and easy to use.

So what Linus has a MacBook Air? He can still program on it. So what Bad Voltage guys have iPhones? I bet they have significant others that also have iPhones and request to do Facetime often enough to where that's a selling point.

In the end, these are all tools. How you use it will invariably be slightly different than others.

Re: What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 2016?
 

So people are supposed to put up with bad hardware because of FOSS fundamentalism?

It's bad enough we have to suffer with some of the awful FOSS software. :-P