This month 15 years have passed since I've received my Openmoko Neo FreeRunner, which started my personal adventure with mobile GNU/Linux 😊
I remember wondering back in 2008 whether I should invest myself and my money in Openmoko or Android as both were at their infancy and looking interesting. In hindsight, even though Openmoko does not exist anymore, I'm convinced that I've made the right choice!
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@dos i also owned this peace of hardware... it was fun to play around with it but for me it never worked as it should...
@christian I wonder - which OS have you used on it? I think my one was from one of the earliest batches and still shipped with Om2007.2. Later ones shipped with Om2008 which I never switched to as I didn't like it at all; I kept using Om2007.2 until FSO and SHR came around. Maybe it wasn't the most reliable thing I've ever used, but it wasn't really unreliable either - everything worked fine if you treated it well ;)
@dos i often switched the os but i also wanted to use it as a phone and that dont work really good... as a pocket pc it was great
@christian It was my main and only phone for a few years. It was suuuuper sloooow and you could switch WiFi modes between "unstable" and "power hungry", but it worked well as a phone for me.
@dos then you made better experiences than me