On Mar 22, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Marius Vollmer wrote: > 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?
:-) No - surely you are right. But I think it is going to proceed from the notion that it is not quite a full distro. >>> 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. Definitely. But the feeling I get is that they want to minimize the (perhaps inevitable) distro politics. Free Software without the Free Software process. ;) > 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. Yeah, and this is where I am getting confused. Because it looks like an almost complete distro, but some of the Moblin devs seem to imply, or even say outright, that they don't want to be a full distro but rather a sort of super middleware. I don't really see powerusers caring that much about middleware. > > 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. I think your specific needs will determine which vendor or middleware version. If you're going to build a set-top box, take the TV MeeGo version, if you're doing IVI use MeeGo IVI, if you're doing embedded on ARM, take MeeGo ARM Vanilla. I assume that is the vision anyway. Jeremiah _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
