ext Jeremiah Foster <jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com> writes: > On Mar 22, 2010, at 7:47 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote: > >> 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.
Hmm, still, MeeGo is surely going to be a collection of software that is maintained, released, and distributed. There will be documents about it, but the primary product of the joint Intel/Nokia effort is surely going to be mostly software, and not PDFs or--deity beware--PowerPoints and a certification process. Or did I really understand things wrong? >> 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. I think it is important that MeeGo is a viable OS on its own, to attract more people. The content draft says that it will: it goes all the way up to a graphical desktop environment, including a few applications, and maybe even a browser. If I become interested in MeeGo, and the first thing I have to do is to decide which of the many vendor versions to actually use to get something useful, I might already be put off. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
