Maemo Leste A Debian/Devuan based mobile hacker OS
Channel: FOSDEM
Date: 2019-02-10

by Merlijn B. W. Wajer

At: FOSDEM 2019
https://video.fosdem.org/2019/H.2215/maemo_leste_mobile.webm


Maemo Leste is community a Debian/Devuan based GNU/Linux distribution for
smartphones and tablets aimed at free software hackers. In spirit and look it is
similar to the Maemo Fremantle OS for the famous Nokia N900 phone. This talk
will present the current (alpha) state of Maemo Leste, the presently supported
devices, our development setups, the present and upcoming challenges and lay out
the future plans for software and hardware (device) support. This lecture will introduce Maemo Leste, a free Debian/Devuan based GNU/Linux
hacker distribution for smartphones and tablets. We will cover the history of
Maemo and explain what drove us to work on and create Maemo Leste. 

We will provide a technical overview of the software stack, show off and discuss
the current status software stack, how we got there, our upcoming milestones and
the challenges that lie ahead. 

Additionally, we'll take some time to discuss the "hacker" aspect of Maemo
Leste. such as (only) supporting mainline Linux, future (first class) Tor and
Wireguard integration, bleeding edge open GPU drivers and the availability of
all the packages of Debian. 

Next to that, we will explain the development setups, build servers and
infrastructure, provide some information on how to port Maemo Leste to a new
device, dive into possible Android compatibility and hardware and driver issues
difficulties (such as mobile GPU drivers and the current open source solutions). 

Resources: 


Website+News: https://maemo-leste.github.io/
Github: https://github.com/maemo-leste
Wiki: https://leste.maemo.org/
Nokia N900 status of Maemo Leste: https://leste.maemo.org/Nokia_N900
Motorola Droid 4 status of Maemo Leste: https://leste.maemo.org/MotorolaDroid4
Lima driver (Linux 4.19 + patches) running Maemo Leste on Allwinner A33 tablets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihCVsaEMNzY



Room: H.2215 (Ferrer)
Scheduled start: 2019-02-02 17:20:00+01