Re: MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo
 

Voilà... http://codex.xiaoka.com/pub/mer/ ^_^

Re: MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo
 

This is awesome! :d

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Sadly, I do.
Wish you better luck than the last time.

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I'd greatly prefer if the project was going to have closer ties to Debian (i.e. more Maemo than Moblin). They have extensive experience with maintaining a non-commercial mutli-arch distro and know how to persist (18 years!)...unlike most of these mobile Linux projects, sadly.

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N900 was a miracle in the field of experiments & personally i still see load of potential in this great device ,i have been watching meego 1.3 closely and i hope it improves more n more as the day passes ,meego team are our heroes !! mainly stskeeps !!

Re: MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo
 

Great, have you run this on your Ideapad?

Re: MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo
 

Assuming that smoku's work *has* taken a lot from MeeGo 1.3, it should be fine. We had MeeGo CE images for x86 for the Fall release, and they run beautifully on ideapads

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So, how's this going to go?

IMO, this mobile distro should be as upstream as possible. It should also be kept nice and small as far as base system is concerned: kernel + init + shell + coreutils + misc utils + package manager.

I'd personally like to see an almost Desktop Linux like thing going on: one base OS, with multiple spins (think Ubuntu - Mergnome? KMer? eMer?) and each spin having many different hardware configurations.
(for end-users: choose your board type e.g. RX-51, modify/keep a suggested kernel config, select DE, add apps and you're ready to go)

Re: MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo
 

Actually, kernel is a part of Mer's Hardware Adaptation, not Mer's Core.

Re: MeeGo Reconstructed - a plan of action and direction for MeeGo
 

A few thoughts and questions...
Can Meego be classed as a distro in its own right, yet? Or, is it still a derivative of Maemo & Moblin? Apart from targetting small devices is it more similar to Fedora or Debian - might it make sense to partner/align/pool with the more more mature distro that it's most like?

To achieve mass-market penetration of any OS, it's probably necessary for that OS to be pre-loaded on devices. Teaming up with a h/w vendor to have a Meego device seems unlikely at the moment but it may happen. So, in the mean time Meego needs to be really adaptable so it can be used to replace Android/Windows/other and make use of as many h/w features as possible as well as being competitive on the s/w front (e.g. geo-location, OCR, speech recognition, office s/w, games, etc, etc). A lot to expect!

In terms of using the OS, for handsets, there is a real opportunity to offer a nearly full linux distro which, can work really well with a touch-friendly UI (e.g. Cordia) or, when required serve as a slimmed down desktop computer (e.g. EasyDebian); and, as technology advances, the desktop capabilites will be able to be expanded.