Thread: The End is Coming: What do we do next?
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2011-08-16 , 10:28
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
Are we doomed to lose the GNU\Linux in our Pockets?
I don't think so. It's worth remembering that there were other iterations that were even more mismanaged and abandoned (like the Zaurus line mentioned earlier). There is a market for such a thing, so eventually someone will try to satisfy it.

But yeah, I agree that things are looking pretty bleak right now.

I think the best thing the Maemo community can do over the next year and a half is to transition to the MeeGo community
Personally I don't find that an acceptable substitute, if only for the lack of appropriate hardware (plus a whole gamut of other issues that are off-topic here so I'll spare you the rants).

As for the future of this community, I think first we have to recognise and accept that it is already very fragmented. We have the people who believe it's just this forum vs the people who think it's the entirety of maemo.org, GNU/Linux lovers vs Symbian refugees, people who move forward and are already developing on N950s vs N8x0 ludites and so on. It's unrealistic to expect all these to agree to move in the same direction, and that's fine. I think the most important thing is to ensure enough infrastructure is left over so that people can still work on what interests them.

Originally Posted by qole View Post
Having used the N950, I also realize how badly crippled the N900's hardware is by lack of RAM. Even though the N950 has a similar chipset, it has 1 GB of RAM, and that makes a huge difference in speed. The terrible swap issues on the N900 are another symptom of this problem.
Use compcache. Seriously!

Like the 770 and N8x0s before it, the N900 looks very dated when placed beside the much better performing devices appearing on the market these days.

Even if we baby our N900s, they're rapidly gaining "quaint" status.
Ah, well, performance is overrated. For myself, I recently got a brand new N810 that (modulo accidents) should last long enough for something better to come along (but then again I though the same thing 2 years ago...)
 

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