Comments on: Nokia’s Booklet 3G hates Linux.

By: A requiem for Nokia: I really should have seen this coming… | Open attitude.

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:59:14 +0000

[...] in 2010 I got to play with Nokia’s first netbook. I was, quite frankly, shocked that it couldn’t run Intel’s own Moblin distro — and ditto for MeeGo, the Linux Foundation-approved alliance between Nokia and Intel. But it [...]

By: Ubuntu on a booklet 3G « How to do something differently…

Ubuntu on a booklet 3G « How to do something differently… — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:24:24 +0000

[...] on a booklet 3G Ok, so after reading around on the net, it seems like linux on the Nokia Booklet 3G is a no go. Mostly due to the GMA500 GPU. Which is a shame, as it’s possibly the best built laptop [...]

By: Myroslav Opyr

Myroslav Opyr — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:10:13 +0000

As far as I know the only Intel chipset supporting hardware accelerated video decoding in Linux is GMA500. Given its low energy footprint and good performance, it is natural for Nokia to choose Poulsbo.

Unfortunately there are too little results from Intel initiative as of today: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzY2Mg

Proper communication between GMA500 Linux contributors (like Adam), Xorg folks and maintainers of mainstream Linux distributions should help GMA500 support to land in repositories. It would be great if Nokia step in and lead the unification initiative. It is sad they hadn’t done that before. There are chances that Nokia has legal bounds by Microsoft. Hope that is not the case.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:45:34 +0000

The only way I can get any kind of Linux on it is via Wubi. Is there something similarly painless for a Fedora or Mandriva install via Windows?

I should also point out that this is a loaner from Nokia, and not my own machine. I’m pretty much done with it at this point.

By: Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:01:33 +0000

sure, jolicloud’s a nice effort. It just felt a bit off for them to boast loudly about their gma500 support without acknowledging any of the work done by the ubuntu forum crowd, or olivier, or me – even after we commented on the blog post.

I haven’t seen a 3G. doesn,t boot via USB? if not, yeah, some kind of bootloader writer is the obvious approach. You can do that with most distros, though – does it only work with jc on the 3G?