Thread: Fedora based MeeGo = NoGo!
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2010-02-15 , 21:02
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Originally Posted by maacruz View Post
There aren't .deb or .rpm developers. That's just like comparing ".msi" vs ".exe" developers. It is just a way of packaging binaries, a trivial issue in development.
exactly. The package format is irrelevant!
However, the distribution is not. WinCE is not Windows7. IphoneOS is not OSX.
Fedora is not Debian. Yes, they are both GNU/Linux distributions but the devil is in the details.
If all future Nokia devices were based on a completely new platform (e.g. 35bit Intel x91) for which neither Debian nor Fedora were ported it would make hardly any difference whether MeeGo would choose either of them.
But Debian has a long ARM and in general multiarch history while Fedora or Moblin does not. And, don't forget, Maemo5 and its apps are ARM based,too.
You underestimate the effort to port a whole distribution to ARM.
Backporting to x86 is much easier, because the software is usually written for x86 in the first place.

It is more developers because there will be less fragmentation, just one community instead of two. Just one plataform to debug instead of two. Will make things easyer, at least in theory.
yes, in theory! You'll also lose access to the whole Debian/Ubuntu crowd of maintainers who IMHO have done a really great job so far to make sure that their packages also work on ARM. I believe the number Fedora maintainers who actively work on the ARM port is much smaller...(not to be confused with the x86 Fedora maintainers)
 

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