Nokia Starts Shipping Its First Linux based Smartphone, N900

[Bytales]

This is the best birthday present ever. Nokia ships the Legendary N900 right on my birthday. This MUST be a sign !

[Snowy101]

excellent news, all now i have to do is wait for it to land on tmobile usa to get it at a subsidized price because im not paying again for full price device especially from nokia and repeat the n97 story

[Apocalypso]

This MUST be a sign !

A good sign

[->Andrew<-]

ARGH! I just got an email from MPD saying I don't pass their security thingy so they cancelled my order wtffffff

[Nexus_]

->Andrew<-, be thankful for that, it's always a bad idea to run headfirst into another money pit, even if it's actually a sexy Linux computer pit In a week or a bit more I'm sure the N900 will hit the retail stores in UK!

[enej]

hy guys, since n900 is shipping that means it will be available soon. so i found about one site called http://maemo.org so there is also Maemo 5, so everything that is under maemo 5 i can download and install on n900?

thx for answers!

[flippr]

look at the new picture of the cool laser penguins : http://maemo.nokia.com/

[Nexus_]

hy guys, since n900 is shipping that means it will be available soon. so i found about one site called http://maemo.org so there is also Maemo 5, so everything that is under maemo 5 i can download and install on n900?

thx for answers!

Yeah it seems so, many apps are still in alpha stages though, but whenever I press the arrow to get those files with an extension *.install, I get a 1kb file, so not sure how the download really works there, maybe only from the device itself?

[Nexus_]

:haha: look at the new picture of the cool laser penguins : http://maemo.nokia.com/

Yeah, Nokia is going on a all out war with their army of mind controlled penguins to destroy apples and donuts

[flippr]

hy guys, since n900 is shipping that means it will be available soon. so i found about one site called http://maemo.org so there is also Maemo 5, so everything that is under maemo 5 i can download and install on n900?

thx for answers!

Yeah it seems so, many apps are still in alpha stages though, but whenever I press the arrow to get those files with an extension *.install, I get a 1kb file, so not sure how the download really works there, maybe only from the device itself?

Hmm I think the .install contains some link to some repository or something. linux way I think

edit:
this is how a .install file looks like:

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[install]
catalogues = extras
package = adblock-plus-1.0

[extras]
name = Maemo Extras
uri = http://repository.maemo.org/extras/
dist = fremantle
components = free non-free


This seems to mean unfortunately that the main way of downloading apps is through the phone connection. if so thats bad, I dont have a wlan available