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Today is #Nokia #N900 15th anniversary.

Nokia N900 was released on November 11th, 2009 and is one of the few last mobile Linux devices.

It is also the last device to be shipped with the Maemo operating system.

#mobilelinux #maemo

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Rhababerbarbar  

@danct12

What makes this Linux but Android not?

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak  

@Rhababerbarbar @danct12 Maemo was a regular Debian-based GNU/Linux distro, which Android is not.

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Pavel Machek  
@dos @Rhababerbarbar @danct12 Well, Maemo was Debian-based, but it was not quite usual. It contained lot of non-free stuff, for example. Still... more usual than Android, agreed.
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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
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@pavel @danct12 @Rhababerbarbar Sure, it wasn't even close to fully FLOSS and it had some creative partitioning and packaging hacks to fit things into NAND... but it was still a perfectly cromulent GNU/Linux distro. You can install plenty of proprietary crap on a Debian laptop as well:)

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