[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: Thomas Tanner]

On 15.02.10 17:55, Christopher Intemann wrote:
> Since MeeGo is about to become the successor of Maemo, I guess there
> won't be any need to backport anything.

such an attitude would make lots of N900 and N8x0 owners angry...

> I guess that rpm is just more advanced than deb.

this is wrong, but not relevant here. The package format itself is
negligible. The important point is the infrastructure it implies.
According to http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2068665492.html
Moblin switched from Ubuntu to Fedora because "RPM offers the advantage
of containing license information" (I don't whether that's the only or
main reason). But .debs have the license information in their doc
directory (most of them are DFSG free anyway) and it could be added
as X-License field of the package description, if necessary.

I don't want a platform that is merely a Qt runtime enviroment (Symbian
would be sufficient) but one which also offers me easy access to the
complete GNU/Linux software world.
Debian based distributions have offered working ARM ports for years
but Fedora does not. Porting Moblin/Fedora to ARM would be lots
of duplicated effort, using Maemo/Debian on X86 or ARM is for free.

On 15.02.10 17:57, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> PS: I have no idea of moblin's size, so maybe you make a good point.  I
> don't know.

I could only find those standard GNOME applications
http://garage.moblin.org/garage/all?page=1

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