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1 edit | Linux users' mobile platform poll I was just wondering which mobile platform do you use. This poll is restricted to people whose primary personal computers runs GNU/Linux. By the way, if you're using something Droid-based like CyanogenMod, just vote Droid.
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As a primarily GNU/Linux user which mobile platform do you use on your personal phone? |
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Edit: Clarification on Droid remixes
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| iOS here. |
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| I personally run CM7.1 on mine.. I found huge battery performance improvements over 7.0 and some UI tweaks and polish. Liking it. Same on my wife's Nexus One even though she'll remain a Windows user at least until Mango comes out. |
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 firephotoKDEPremium
join:2003-03-18
Brewster, WA
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I'm a little unsure on your choices. To me Droid is a phone, Android is the platform and CyanogenMod is what kids talk about ROMS without knowing wth a rom actually is. There's also WebOS, a Samsung interface on top of Linux that I can't think of the name, probably a few other major ones too.
I also voted other proprietary because my phone says nokia, flips open and makes calls without being hermetically sealed in a 3rd party case from the real dirty, wet, sharp world around it. 
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All good points.. I wrote Droid as a bit of a protest at Moto appropriating an expression so close to the platform. CyanogenMod is still Android-based. WebOS is pretty much dead in the water and I'd just dump it in the "other proprietary" pile, along with the Samsung interface on top of Linux.
P.S. The one platform whose loss I really regret is MeeGo.
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| said by FiReSTaRT:P.S. The one platform whose loss I really regret is MeeGo.
It's still alive with mer but Intel got their out while blaming Nokia and Nokia got their out while stuffing the Microsoft cash into the mattress after the cleanup in aisle 2.
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| said by firephoto:It's still alive with mer but Intel got their out while blaming Nokia and Nokia got their out while stuffing the Microsoft cash into the mattress after the cleanup in aisle 2. Mer? I'm not hearing a lot about them. I hope you're right, but I'm not holding my breath..
As for Nokia-m$... That was a big cluster****... Nokia fell asleep at the switch and didn't work hard enough on active development of the platform. Same goes for paid propaganda (a.k.a. marketing). Realistically, they should have had a suitable replacement to S before Android came out.
Once Apple and Google snapped up a good chunk of the market, BBM and webOS flopping and many people having already invested a lot of cash in other platforms, MeeGo became dead in the water, so they needed to switch platforms. Unfortunately for them, they chose to go down the tubes with m$. Their stated reason was that they didn't wanna join the race to the bottom that they perceived the Android platform was gonna foster.
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grunze510
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Cote Saint-Luc, QC
kudos:1 | reply to firephoto
said by firephoto:said by FiReSTaRT:P.S. The one platform whose loss I really regret is MeeGo.
It's still alive with mer but Intel got their out while blaming Nokia and Nokia got their out while stuffing the Microsoft cash into the mattress after the cleanup in aisle 2. I think there's also Tizen, not that we'll hear much about them. |
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firephotoKDEPremium
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Here's some devices listed that are working with mer.
»wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Community_Workspace
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 piperPremium
join:2001-04-19
Buffalo, NY | reply to FiReSTaRT
CM 7.1 here also
Even my grandkids know what a rom is and what it's for and how to flash |
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 SmitedoggUzbekikittyPremium
join:2000-11-11
Pueblo, CO | reply to FiReSTaRT
Cyanogen, because I'm Free. |
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 chrisretusnRetiredPremium
join:2007-08-13
Philippines
kudos:1 | reply to FiReSTaRT
said by FiReSTaRT:I was just wondering which mobile platform do you use. This poll is restricted to people whose primary personal computers runs GNU/Linux.
As a primarily GNU/Linux user which mobile platform do you use on your personal phone? I am a primary (as in 99% of the time) GNU/Linux user (actually prefer just Linux). My mobile platform is a laptop, I am typing this from it now, from my home. So I suppose I could select "Other Open"; yet I realize this poll is probably meant for mobile devices other than laptops. I do carry a Nokia 1202-2 "stupid" cell phone; which uses S30 so I selected "Other Proprietary"
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markofmayhemI can haz competition?Premium
join:2004-04-08
Pittsburgh, PA
kudos:4 | said by FiReSTaRT:I was just wondering which mobile platform do you use. This poll is restricted to people whose primary personal computers runs GNU/Linux.
As a primarily GNU/Linux user which mobile platform do you use on your personal phone? That's me!
And I traded in my Samsung Rumor (brick phone that made phone calls, a very complicated ideal in action) for an LG Marquee running Android. It was cool to play with for a day or two, now I just wish it would leave me alone. Beep, boop, lights up, shakes... "You have a message"... "The San Diego Chargers washed a bus"... "A dictator somewhere is in trouble"...
LEAVE ME ALONE! Ugh... Android is the most Windows-like Linux I've ever seen, it just nags and nags and nags... not like my Arch, it will sit there staring back in you in silence for decades not saying nothing, like, I have unmounted everything and can't do anything anyway 
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 DrunkulaPremium
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I'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of CM7 for my Droid X2. I know it's in the works and they are starting to make progress.
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Running CM, I've configured my phone to only deliver alerts for:
1) Phone calls
2) VoIP calls
3) SMS messages (no info services)
4) E-mails (very solid spam filtering)
My updates are automatic (other than the semi-necessary Google crap, I only run FLOSS apps on it), so there's very little interference.
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
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 VampirefoPremium,MVM
join:2000-12-11
Huntington, WV
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I voted droid even though I don't have a droid, I have and use several android devices, 3 tablets, 4 phones none are a droid, droid is simply a name like Ubuntu.
Your use of droid to cover android devices is like using Ubuntu to cover Linux.
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 GILXA1226Premium,MVM
join:2000-12-29
London, OH | reply to FiReSTaRT
Need to make the poll multiple choice... I have an iPhone (iOS) as my personal phone and a Droid as for work.
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said by Vampirefo:Your use of droid to cover android devices is like using Ubuntu to cover Linux.
Actually it's closer to using Linux instead of GNU/Linux |
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Follow-up!
I put CM7 beta 2 on my DX2 yesterday. Awesome. No Verizon bloat. Appreciably faster...
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