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Was Maemo open source, including the shell? I wonder whether anyone will try and revive it now we have mainline kernel Linux phones, like Librem and Pinephone.

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It wasn't fully open source, but mostly. It was merged with Intel's Moblin into MeeGo. Once Nokia stopped working on that, MeeGo was forked into the fully open source Mer. Mer is nowadays used by Jolla as a basis for Sailfish OS (which again has non-open source parts at the top of the stack).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moblin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mer_(software_distribution)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS

Maemo Leste is a fork of the original Maemo bits. It's still maintained, at least to some extent.

I _think_ it mostly was, with the exception of binary driver blobs. At least a few years ago it still had very active dev community at maemo.org, so it is not inconceivable for it to be revived. Alas, the neo900 project died.

No idea if neo900 officially died, but unofficially the timeline on the bottom and lack of news on the website [1] say as much.

I believe right now you're best off with /e/ in combination with a Fairphone 3.

[1] https://neo900.org

Friends of mine were taught by Carsten Haitzler (rasterman, original author of enlightenment, lead dev of tizen) at UNSW. Back in the day enlightenment was, in many ways, miles ahead of the competition. Unfortunately it was miles ahead of the hardware as well.

Apparently he has always been passionate about open source, and I've always been impressed by his output. I'd love to see /e/ get some mind share on a decent platform.

Sorry, I could've added a link.

/e/ referred to [1], not Enlightenment.

[1] https://e.foundation

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