On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 22:03 +0000, BeartoothHbsk wrote: > I also prefer Fedora -- and currently have Omega Linux running of > an EeePC 701, which is about the smallest and slowest of netbooks. Omega > seems to me to be very effectively "Fedora For Netbooks" -- and that > makes me wonder, after reading all this thread so far, whether I need > bother paying attention to MeeGo. I have had a quick look at the moblin user interface on a netbook (since you can install it from the fedora repos), and I quickly went back to gnome/cairo-dock. I think the other part of the merger is far more interesting. After all; Who has seen a moblin device? Where can you buy one? Maemo devices have been around for years. It was originally a tablet OS for a range of Nokia tablets, but the last one (N900) is a cell phone. A Nokia cellphone running a real linux with X-windows and gnome. The user interface is of course completely different, but Nokia did the right thing. They developed it as a new interface on top of gnome and gave it to the gnome foundation. The next generation (MeeGo) will be redone in QT instead. Not sure I like that move but it is understandable since Nokia owns QT, and they now have QT up on Symbian as well. I would love to get a N900 so I could have any linux app up and running on the 480x800 display. Perhaps I wouldn't need a netbook anymore. With Nokias acquisition of QT and their open-sourcing of Symbian Nokia is really trying to make open source work. Sadly they seem to have problems relating to their community. Finding out how they have to restructure themselves to interface with a community. I would expect Intel to have some of the same problems. At least Nokia has seen what a community can do. The N900 lacked MMS just like the iPhone when it was launched. The community fixed it for the N900 in 3 months. I believe it took apple more than a year. Anyway. MeeGo is set to become a rather high-volume platform backed by two big vendors of devices in a new market (for linux). I think that is exciting. Seeing Nokia and Intel trying to merge their open source efforts is even more exciting. I really hope they can learn a few lessons from RedHat about how to grow a community and integrate with it. Perhaps even merge the communities and share Fedora as the community platform. After all, neither of them are likely to intrude on RedHats turf... MeeGo will never be positioned as a server or desktop operating system. :-) Getting some Nokia, Intel and TrollTech programmers aboard wouldn't hurt, would it? So: Welcome, MeeGo. May you ship on millions of devices. :-) birger -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
