Maemo Leste

Welcome to the Maemo Leste website! Maemo Leste continues the legacy of Maemo. We aim to provide a free and open source Maemo experience on mobile phones and tablets like the Nokia N900, Motorola Droid 4, Motorola Bionic, Pinephone, Pinetab, Allwinner tablets and more!

Feel free to join us on irc.libera.chat #maemo-leste and also join our mailing list if you are interested.

We are also active on Twitter.

Maemo Leste is based on Devuan Beowulf (Debian Buster) and all the supported devices ship with recent mainline Linux kernels.

The project is almost usable as a daily driver for your device. We are currently in the development phase and we are actively searching for developers. For some devices, we have development images available - such as the Nokia N900, Motorola Droid 4, and the PinePhone. There is also a 64bit virtual machine you can use to try out Maemo Leste. For an impression, see some of our screenshots.

So far we have set up repositories for our packages, which support amd64, armhf, and arm64 architectures. We have FOSS replacements for all included and previously closed Maemo packages (and we have no closed packages in use), further building on the Maemo community efforts to replace all closed bits with open source software.

Installation guides are provided per device. For open tasks and issues, please see our Github bugtracker: https://github.com/maemo-leste/bugtracker/issues

For a general usage introduction, it might be useful to check out https://leste.maemo.org/Getting_Started

You can find wiki pages of our supported devices on https://leste.maemo.org/Category:Device

After our initial blog post, we have posted (almost) monthly updates of our efforts and progress. Reverse-chronological, they are:

• 2024 Telepathy update
• Five year anniversary: Chimaera release
• New Year update 2023
• November 2021 - April 2022
• January - October 2021
• IRC channel migration
• Funding from NGI EU
• July - December 2020
• April + May + June 2020
• February + March 2020
• Repositories and community packages
• January 2020
• End of 2019 update
• March - August 2019
• January + February 2019
• December 2018
• Lima is alive!
• November 2018
• September + October 2018
• July + August 2018
• May + June 2018
• April 2018
• March 2018

On various open source software conferences, we also did talks about Maemo Leste, and they're listed on https://leste.maemo.org/Talks

Software status is documented here: https://leste.maemo.org/Status . A proper overview of the current (Maemo) software state will be provided soon.

If you like our work and want to see it continue, join us!

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