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2008-04-19 , 21:50
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Originally Posted by finite View Post
I really really really hope that ITOS2009 is nothing more than Ubuntu 8.04 (or 8.10, or 9.04 or whatever, but a *released distro*) plus whatever extra packages Nokia wants to add. That way, we will be able to apt-get install (and upgrade!) thousands of packages which are maintained by people who don't know or care about internet tablets per se.
OS200x and Ubuntu Mobile have only hildon and the debian parent in common. Ubuntu Mobile will power up the so called MIDs, while i expect OS2009 again will be Maemo based. However software will be possible to run with simple recompile (since the hildon libraries are common between the two.