Basic Ubuntu 9.10 installation question

[daniel sobey]

Sorry, replied to the wrong mailing list

--- On Fri, 13/11/09, Daniel Sobey <dns_server at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Daniel Sobey <dns_server at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Basic Ubuntu 9.10 installation question
> To: "ubuntu mailing list" <ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Received: Friday, 13 November, 2009, 9:13 AM
> On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 13:12 +1100,
> Russell Coker wrote: 
> > 
> > Mobile phones are NEVER designed for Linux, they are
> designed to run a 
> > locked-down proprietary environment which may involve
> a Linux kernel and some 
> > GPL user-space.
> > 
> 
> This was true a few years ago before the openmoko.
> 
> Everything except the modem firmware is open source (it
> would not be
> legal to have this modifiable ). This includes the Linux
> kernel, the
> mobile phone stack the user space interfaces. The circuit
> diagrams are
> cc licensed so you could potentially build your own phone
> from scratch
> if you know how to solder.
> 
> Android is also open source and you can hack your phone or
> get a
> developers phone where you can fully flash with your own
> software.
> The syanogen mod is a distribution of this and everything
> is open source
> after google complained and had them remove the proprietary
> google apps.
> 
> Symbian is now or will soon be fully open source, I have
> not yet looked
> at it and do not know if enough is open and if you could
> potentially use
> it to build your own phone os from the ground up.
> 
> Nokia is also developing a phone stack for the n900
> Internet tablet.
> The stack is not yet open source but nokia has stated that
> they will
> release the source code soon so you should be able to use
> it in the
> future. You should be able to flash your own stack to this
> phone.
> 
> 
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