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 Hacker

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 and