[Alpine-info] Alpine or re-Alpine for Nokia N9 mobile phone.

[Peter G.]

Hodie pr. Non. Mai. MMXII AUC quidam/quædam/quoddam 'Brian Durant' inquit:


> BTW, Any favorite N9 URLs for a new N9 user? As you can guess, I am 

> particularly interested in what can be done from the command line on an N9. 

> Does the N9 use apt as package manager?


Getting a bit off-topic here but yes, Harmattan is quite debianish and 
uses apt and .deb files.

The init system is different (I believe it uses an upstart variant) but 
normal /etc/init.d scripts seem to work okay (check the developer docs 
on how that works).

Also, Nokia adds the aegis security system which restricts what you can 
do, but it doesn't really get in your way if you are a regular user.

As for tips for a new user, the most important thing when searching the 
web is to always check what the page talks about exactly.

There is Maemo, Harmattan, Meego, Moblin and Tizen which are all related but 
different. Plus there are the different devices, N800, N900, N950, N9.

Also, current Harmattan 1.2 is quite different from older versions.

Most info you find does NOT apply to all systems so be careful what you 
try.

As you ask for URLs, here are a couple:
http://talk.maemo.org
http://apps.formeego.org/applications/
https://harmattan-bugs.nokia.com/ (I have a bug there, #637 that I would 
be interested in getting feedback for.)

Here's some fun command line hacking:
http://shootspeak.com/2011/10/10/nokia-n9-get-extra-functions-by-editing-the-mce-ini-file/
http://forum.dailymobile.se/index.php?topic=57010.0 (there's now a 
regular app for that too)

If you're very crazy, there's a way to dual-boot the Google OS on the N9 
which might be fun:
http://forum.nitdroid.com/index.php?topic=94.0

Have fun,
   Peter G.

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