This is superb news. Having Intel join forces with Nokia will increase the mindshare of maemo and should help it avoid being crushed by the Android/iPhone momentum.

Intel has done impressive things in open source e.g. paid for a lot of the recent improvements to Xorg.

The idea that the whole stack should be controlled by the Linux foundation rather than a single company is huge. I hope to see many devices in many form factors.

There seems to be be a lot of negativity around RPM/deb. It seems to me such a tiny side issue. As a happy user of Maemo, Fedora, Red Hat and Unslung I can safely say that the differences are largely historic. The small differences that remain are hardly the big news today.

I understand the concern from N900 owners (I am one myself) that their devices will be obsolete. But today's announcement doesn't obviously change the odds of their device being supported into the future, so I don't understand the negativity in this thread.

This is great news, and I look forward to the first release.