This is all very good news. Qt is the new Maemo. The Prospect of an OS that runs on my laptop AND my Phone is net new. A common dev platform makes that even better.

RPM works great on Open SuSE that I use daily. There is already Alien to convert between debs and RPMs so dont expect much real change.

You have to remember the reason that Moblin Switched from debs to RPMs, and that was to support licensing options in the format. This will give greater support to commercial devs, which will drive Linux more into the mainstream.

The community can only grow from here, I for one am sticking around .