Thread: Why not ditch Maemo and work on a new OS?
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2015-03-27 , 23:47
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The op question "why not ditch maemo and work on a new OS.?"

Baby with the bathwater.
Sure work on a new OS...but why ditch maemo?
Fremantle Porting Task Force believes it possible to make maemo what it should be.
Their work may make many avenues possible for innovation and not just for the neo900 but possibly also for the n900.

On other devices to bring in a wider audience?
well maemo is pretty close
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySRZGjEs5y0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0-KQ6wPJ04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuIrRoRPufc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt5bd2irgwM

I think once fremantle is opened up ...
the likelihood a standard computer...especially touch / penabled tablet / laptop would work quite well with it.
So yeah ...once the porting task force is done...
I think it'll only be a matter of time before I'm wandering through DistroWatch and see the Fremantle Distro.
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