many people. not all people. Personally, I think that the N900 feels a lot more like linux than android (and personally, I don't have the time (and arguably d

many people. not all people. Personally, I think that the N900 feels a lot more like linux than android (and personally, I don't have the time (and arguably don't have the skill) to port desktop linux to your smartphone hardware.) the thing about the n900 is that it doesn't just run desktop linux; It has an interface that runs reasonably on a smartphone. But, you don't have to rewrite all your programs in a horrid java knock off. porting from linux to your n900 is not a particularly difficult thing, compared to porting to java.