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Easy (and amazing) Debian for the N900

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 22, 2010

“By the time you read this my Nokia N900 will be packed up and
on its way back to the kind folks who let me test it. As a last
hurrah I spent my evening yesterday seeing how far I could push it;
the results are fairly spectacular…

“I had read previously about installing .deb files using
something called “red pill mode“; this is no longer
possible, but in its place is a fantastic app called Easy Debian
which does exactly what its title would suggest”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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