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MeeGo to return next month with Jolla phone launch (The H)MeeGo to return next month with Jolla phone launch (The H)Posted Oct 10, 2012 21:24 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: MeeGo to return next month with Jolla phone launch (The H) by dlang Parent article: MeeGo to return next month with Jolla phone launch (The H)
> The fact that so many manufacturers have closed source drivers that are specific to their particular android release.
These drivers are mostly for two things: video and wifi. Both are well problems in DESKTOP Linux. Most of other drivers are open source.
Besides, I dare say, the closed source drivers in Android are easy to work around. CyanogenMod has no problem building custom kernels, I also did this myself for my Samsung Galaxy S.
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MeeGo to return next month with Jolla phone launch (The H) Posted Oct 10, 2012 21:37 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
As someone who owns one of the less popular devices, I can say that the closed drivers are not easy to work around.
CyanogenMod picks what devices they support in part based on how hard it is to deal with the drivers (with the bigger part being how popular the device is)
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