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2008-10-13 , 10:14
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Originally Posted by polossatik View Post
Sorry to insist but I'm a bit confused now, seen Meamo is already (IMHO) rather "user friendly" and great with power consumption (on my N800 anyway) so why then not use this instead of trying to make those other distro's more "like meamo"?
Or do I miss something obvious?
Well, first off - Maemo doesn't really give the choice to run other environments other than Hildon. Two, Nokia has said that next version of the OS may not support the N8x0's - much to the dismay of the large userbase - so they'd be left in the cold regarding system updates. Three, porting to Maemo is notoriously difficult occasionally because of the fact they haven't bothered to follow up with updates Debian and deriatives have kept up with, and broken many APIs, which I believe harms the platform. Four, - because it's fun to work with and play with - a system you can completely modify to your will. Isn't that something?
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