Re: Maemo & Linux mainstream again (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-11-27 Thread tz
There are synergies between ubuntu and maemo. Nokia does bluetooth and wifi much better. Ubuntu has better package management and updates. It would be wonderful if the tablet was just a subset of Ubuntu-(mobile?)-for-ARM, perhaps with a few additions.

Re: Maemo & Linux mainstream again (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-11-24 Thread Ian
Hi, > Sure. However as for today there is no Ubuntu productized for ARM, so > it's not as easy as it might look like for the average Ubuntu > enthusiast. The Mojo project (funded by Nokia, btw) is investigating > that Ubuntu ARM port. It is probably not very difficult to put a "Maemo > Ubuntu Hacke

Re: Maemo & Linux mainstream again (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-10-27 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Carsten, thank you very much for the time, energies and skills you are putting in the Deblet project, and in this thread. http://wiki.maemo.org/Mainstream_Linux_Alignment was born this morning in a humble corner of the wiki. Let's compile there all the bugs and enhancement requests relating to

Re: Maemo & Linux mainstream again (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-10-25 Thread Carsten V. Munk
Quim Gil wrote: > The strategy taken for Maemo is different, promoting the direct > collaboration with the relevant upstream projects and going as far as > possible with the open source way of working. Maemo is mostly based of > open source components. Any manufacturer could take that code base

Maemo & Linux mainstream again (was Re: Projects Nokia should support (yours?))

2008-10-24 Thread Quim Gil
(let's keep this in -developers to avoid cross-posting to -users as well) This mail is about the relationship with Linux mainstream in general, Debian/Ubuntu particularly. Moblin, LiMo, OpenMoko to be considered in this view as well. The principle is clear: we want to align as much as possible. T