Thread: Fedora based MeeGo = NoGo!
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2010-02-15 , 18:57
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Originally Posted by titan View Post
The decision to switch completely to a Fedora/RPM based distribution is a very bad idea,
especially for ARM based devices.
Debian/Ubuntu has officially supported ARM ports of the distribution for years,
while Fedora is still struggling http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/pa..._be_fixed.html
and not officially supporting it.
MeeGo is not based on Fedora. It will be based on Moblin.

Originally Posted by titan View Post
Moblin has nothing to loose from the merger, but Maemo will loose access to relatively
easy ARM ports of Debian software (cf. Jebba etch port)
Any app that doesn't port easily was probably not following good coding practices to begin with.

Originally Posted by titan View Post
and reasonable Debian standards.
Sure, all standards will be out the window now. Come on! Are you studying sensationalist journalism or something?

Originally Posted by titan View Post
The package format themselves may not be very different, but the infrastructure
and the available software differs a lot.
So?

Originally Posted by titan View Post
Debian and Ubuntu are LSB compliant and can install rpm packages using alien
but LSB does NOT require the whole distribution to be based on RPM or Fedora!
Again, MeeGo is not based on Fedora or in RPM! RPM is the default package format. That is all. And that is neither a good nor a bad thing IMHO.
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