[maemo-users] Projects Nokia should support (yours?)

[From: Cedric Cellier]

-[ Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 07:02:34PM -0400, Ryan Abel ]----
> Rather than building Maemo up as yet-another-Linux-distro, I'd  
> _rather_ see Nokia come inline with upstream and essentially ship  
> Ubuntu or Debian, but with their own differentiation on top. Hildon is  
> already open, somebody just needs to package it up to a sufficiently  
> usable state for other platforms (it's already in Debian and Ubuntu,  
> but simply installing it doesn't quite get you where you want to be).

I strongly agree with this.
This is very annoying to see manufacturers shipping their own wobbly
linux distro, while there is the "universal OS project" (aka. Debian)
that has everything one need and is very well tested and supported.
Adding your own stuff on top of a mere Debian (or alike) seams so much
simplier than packaging your own stuff from scratch that I can't
come with no reason to do so, technically speaking.

For instance I bough an asus aspire one recently : a very good piece
of hardware bundled with a very poor version of Linux.