[maemo-developers] Building Maemo OS from Source.

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Mar 22, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote:

> "Stoppa Igor (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <Igor.Stoppa at nokia.com> writes:
> 
>> No at all: it's about standardization. The device must support a certain 
>> set of features and provide well defined APIs.
>> 
>> So if a device is MeeGo compliant, it will be advertised as such.
> 
> In my view, MeeGo is a development effort, not a standardization effort.

I am not convinced that this is true. It looks like MeeGo is going to track upstream closely with few customizations. It is going be be more of an integration that a distribution. In that regards, it leans closer to a "standard linux instance" than it does a separate distro.

> Thus, MeeGo lives next to Fedora and Ubuntu, and remixes much of the
> same software in a slightly different way.  It is not in the same
> category as POSIX, LSB, and FHS.

The value it will have though is as a building block - not as a finished distro like Fedora or Ubuntu. 
> 
> Now, standards are important, too, but secondary.  If someone with
> enough clue sits down and writes down a "Mobile" LSB module that
> actually gathers traction outside of MeeGo, then that would be a good
> thing.  But that is not what MeeGo is primarily about.

It seems to me it is more about creating a functioning reference platform which others can take and build upon. As such it seems closer to a standard.

Jeremiah