On Thursday 25 February 2010 06:05:11 Andy Green wrote: > 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. AFAICT, it seems that it will be based on Fedora style .specs, so it will be reasonably straightforward to give/take .src.rpms from Fedora (and with a bit more work to Mandriva/SUSE). They will likely also build their ARM binaries to specifically target devices (e.g. ARM7 instead of the current ARM5 of F12 ARM). So the comparison with Android is a bit off, since you can't really use anything from Android in Fedora (or debian or...), at least for now, but there will likely be flow to/from MeeGo to other mainstream distros. A nice bonus is the fact that the Linux Foundation is at the center, so it's not all controlled by Nokia or Intel. Both companies have been improving their FOSS practices in the last few years. With luck in the not so distant future, a truly free/open phone will be readily available. -Jeff http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba/Fedora _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
