Thread: Nokia promises N900 will get MeeGo! Or perhaps not.
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russo_br is offline russo_br
2010-02-20 , 16:17
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Originally Posted by geohsia View Post
I like the fact that you can create any Linux, but one of the biggest problems with Linux is continual fragmentation. While they are all at the core Linux, dealing with the nuances of each because someone didn't like this or that at some point gets counterproductive.
Tottally agree with the continual fragmentation affecting Linux in general. That's one downside of the open source, the community is the core value but also makes it difficult to stick with one common roadmap.

I work in a role of selling Linux high-end servers for mission critical applications. You can see in the server market that only Red Hat and Suse are well accepted in the corporate market, and the main reason is the ecosystem of supported applications from 3rd parties. I guess lots of the members here work(ed) for big companies, and you can compare Oracle DB supported OS for example. Most Red Hat versions are officially supported by the launch of a new version, but CentOS (Red Hat free distribution) is not. For those whom are getting the point I am trying to make, Meego on N900 supported by Nokia will be like Red Hat, while a Meego version ported by the community would be like CentOS.