On 02/25/10 00:14, Somebody in the thread at some point said: > I think they are missing the value of Fedora ARM completely, they > are just using the prebuilt rootfs tarball to get started from what > I can work out, it's a real shame they "wanna be Android" > > I don't think the "wanna be Android" is a fair statement. SuSE and > Mandriva started as forks of RHL for various reasons. Android is a > custom stack on top of a Linux kernel, Moblin is not. Its using free and > open source components like most of the other distros. The UX is easily > rebuilt and used on other platforms. I've done so for Fedora just like > the Ubuntu, SuSE and Madriva guys have. You can't do that with Android. What I meant by it is cut themselves off and roll their own stuff that won't play with anything else. They could just not do all that continuous work and be finished already today by really having a Fedora basis with their packages and opt-out recook packages on top. I guess the had an experience with having a Debian basis and decided it wasn't workable to as they say "have an upstream". It sounds like an expensive decision that reduces the value to anyone else of the work they're doing. You're right it'd be better to say "wanna be Mandriva" since at least Meego also committed to an RPM basis, and you can't share Mandriva binaries with Fedora ones readily either. -Andy _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
