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2008-11-28 , 16:23
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#55
Originally Posted by BoxOfSnoo View Post
Quim, there's this nifty organization out there called Debian. You should look it up someday.
Thanks for the pointer. I became a Debian user in 2002. Nokia hired the first Debian maintainers to work on Maemo by 2005 or before.

Seriously, talk to them, they're doing all this stuff much better than you are - BECAUSE they've been through the whole iterative development, compatibility, testing, FREE (libre) releases for what, 15 years now? They know what doesn't work.
Debian can delay a release until they think it's ready (and compatibility plays a big role on that). Maemo cannot have such delays (and compatibility is one of the aspects that suffers).

Besides, Debian doesn't have to deal with any UI optimized for consumer mobile devices. The main options you have is Hildon (developed by Nokia) and perhaps something related to Qt (developed by the company that acquired Trolltech).

Please don't reinvent the wheel, or even pretend you're the first down this road.
Who reinvented or pretended anything?

Pretending that those wheels are just enough to move this mobile platform is not very useful. At least not for us. Debian has many merits and Nokia is supporting them to have more merits in this new mobile space as well.
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