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Quim Gil
Personal blog · flors.wordpress.comsystemshardware
Quim Gil writes flors, a personal blog at flors.wordpress.com about systems and hardware. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link the posts on open mobile phones and software freedom, including the N900 and Neo900 projects. They cite the posts as the original announcement and as background on the N900's design.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
by Quim Gil
What Hacker News says?
...or MeeGo, and I guess Ubuntu and Debian are also possible. That is one part of the phone being truly open. Here was the original announcement: http://flors.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/software-freedom-lover...
Comment linking /2009/08/27/software-freedom-lovers-here-comes-maemo-5/
on “Nokia CEO: Nokia is "standing on a burning platform"”Submitted Nokia N9 — The four wheels spinning MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think this is essentially what N900 did. The GSM part was handled as an external modem so that people would be free to have root on the rest of the device. http://flors.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/software-freedom-lover...
Comment linking /2009/08/27/software-freedom-lovers-here-comes-maemo-5/
on “Blackphone”Submitted Maemo 5 Final SDK released as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe N900 was amazing. I used it as my only computer on quite a few trips, effortlessly handling stuff like flight reservations and hotel bookings regardless of having to use desktop-oriented websites with Flash. And the keyboard was great for email on the go. Of course, progress has passed the device quite a while ago. I still see the occasional hacker using the phone, as that was the last phone many could consider…
Comment linking /2009/08/27/software-freedom-lovers-here-comes-maemo-5/
on “Introducing Neo900”