I'm really feeling split on this. I'm no big fan of either systems. For me the ideal binary based system has always been slackware.

Frankly what I would love to see is more community distros for such devices. So if MeeGo will open it all up so that anyone will be able to grab the sources and roll their own any way they please then please please do so.

Let it be completly and fully open then we actually don't have to worry what one is using.

I'm not really happy with the way Maemo runs and I never really could understand Debian or Fedora or Suse(and how many probs I've had with Yast is just to damn weird).

I used to run Slackware until I switched to Source Mage and became a Source Mage dev.

But I started with RH3-something, Caldera, never could get Debian installed back then, Mandrake, a few others(and BSDs) but ended up with Slackware.

So I've experienced a few things. Slackware now-a-days with slapt-get is actually nice. And I thought one could use apt-get with rpm now-a-days? Wasn't there some work on that???

As said at the start my main hope for this is an ability to roll a completly own distro so if someone wants to they could run gentoo or slackware on it with the sources for the relevant packages and not have to rely on any specific vendor provided packges.