So today morning I got my Nokia N900 given to me by @WOMWorldNokia to try it out. When I clicked on the Menu, the icon on which my eyes stuck was “terminal”. Being a Linux enthusiast, this was the first place I am supposed to visit.

When entering the terminal I was greeted by

Busybox v1.10.2 Debian 3:1.10.2

I had always heard that it runs Debian. Here I believed it myself. Now that after Maemo and Moblin merged, MeeGo is taking the RPM way rather than DEB. Bad! Too bad for Debian lovers.

The built-in shell is “Almquist Shell” which is bundled with BusyBox AFAIK.

Next, tried to find out the details of the OS

$uname -aLinux Nokia-N900-02-8 2.6.28-omap1

So it uses Linux kernel version 2.6.28 and used Texas Instrument’s OMAP microprocessor. Last I knew, most of the NSeries phones uses OMAP.

gcc is not available by default, though it can be installed

sudo was available though I didn’t try it out with anything

Memory:

I ran ‘df’ and all I got was (summerized)

rootfs: (in 1-K blocks)

Available: 233344

Used: 143324

/dev/mmcblk0p1: (in 1-K blocks)

Available: 28312128

Used: 251904

/dev/mmcblk0p2: (in 1-K blocks)

Available: 2064208

Used: 105308

Using free, I could find the memory

RAM: 256M

Swap: 768M