Is the N900 the most hacker-friendly phone ever created? All sources are pointing to "yes." Just two short months ago, we saw one determined code monkey turn his N900 into a PS3 controller; today, we're looking at someone who did the exact opposite. If you've memorized the Debian source code and aren't afraid to dabble in the wild and murky world of N900 modding, you too can one day...

A guy running a blog site called “Brandon’s Posterous” has recently released a video of the Nokia N900 dual booting Maemo 5 and Android. Maemo 5 is a Linux based operating system that is both useable and great to develop for. Nokia develops it in collaboration with many open source projects such as Debian, GNOM, ...

NewsFactor - After a long wait, Google's Chrome browser is now available for Apple Macintosh and Linux computers. In a blog post Tuesday, Brian Rakowski, product manager for Chrome, announced that beta versions of Chrome are now available for Mac OS X 10.5 and later (Intel only) and several flavors of Linux, including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE. In addition, Rakowski announced the av...

It seems that the newly released high-end Palm Pre is set to periodically send end-user data to Palm, as Joey Hess, a Debian developer, points out. According to him, the data sent to the handset maker includes GPS location, what applications are installed on the device, what apps are used and for how long, and crash logs. For what it's worth, it was somehow expected for the device to send dat...

The most recent explosion of paranoia concerning mobile devices has been caused by the Palm Pre. Blogger and Debian developer Joey Hess has claimed that by digging around in the software of his Pre, he discovered that it was regularly sending information back to Palm. Information about his location, what apps he was using, and how often he was using them. The Palm privacy policy seems to cover thi...

This is going to end well, and no one will be upset about this. Also, everything I said in that last sentence is probably wrong. When Debian developer Joey Hess started tinkering with webOS, he noticed that it was sending something to Palm once a day. Surely, Palm wasn't sending anything too potentially incriminating without making it blatantly obvious to the user, right? Wrong. Update: Updat...

Here's a concept video of vncviewer working from within a debian chroot. I connected to my desktop running RealVNC server. [

Mer is not a maemo fork but the result of joined efforts between maemo, ubuntu and of course debian (deblet), alpha version can be installed to freerunner mobile. Watch video demo.... read more

The iPhone (or iPod Touch) is a 667MHz computer (albeit one that is only running at 412MHz) with 128MB of RAM and between 4 and 32 GB of flash. For software, it is running a pared down Mac OS X with its standard complement of a FreeBSD-based userland over a Darwin kernel. While some people wonder why anyone would attempt to use it as a Unix workstation, to me and many others it seems ludicrous

Will this be the next Android phone? Specifications: Connectivity : GSM Bluetooth 2.0 GPRS AGPS WiFi,  USB 1.1 slave and host, 2.5-mm audio jack Media: microSD, SDHC capable, Wolfson WM8753 Codec Operating system:Andrroid, OpenMoko, Qtopia, Debian Input: touchscreen, buttons Power 1200-mAh battery CPU Samsung 2442 SoC @ 400 MHz Memory 128 MB SDRAM 256 MB NAND flash Flash expandable upto 16 GB...