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"Who thinks like this and who believes writing like this is comprehensible or acceptable?"
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Right, at least we now have something to talk about, thank you for clarifying. Writing this from an N900, so no links, but the principal benefit in terms of OS or customisability is the fact that the Maemo OS uses Linux, a FOSS operating system, as its core.
In terms of software, that means that millions of man/hours of work previously done on Linux can be ported easily. It also means the OS fundamentally handles multitasking and multiple desktops well, giving much more power to the UI than on (for instance) a S60 phone like the N96. Everyone uses that differently, of course.
The same fundamental truth applies to hacking and customising... such things as undervolting and overclocking weren't written from the ground up for the N900, but are made possible by the fact that it uses a relatively (for a phone) standard architecture - Linux on ARM.
The final thing that makes the difference, IMHO, is an almost unbreakable system to reflash the phone if you mess it up. This has permitted skilled users to play with their phones and develop all the clever (and not so clever) stuff.
So if anyone can contribute some facts about it .. so it will be helpful..
(I'm making a project on n900(maemo5) so i need some facts about it tried it in wikipedia and google but found nothing)
something lyk dis:
I tried my best to search but couldnt find some relating to it so I thought posting here would be appropriate !
(In wiki it shows the specs of n900 i wanted how n900 is better than other phones in terms of OS,hackability / customizability etc.. )
Last edited by G.One; 2012-02-08 at 17:17.