Thread: Official: No (commercial) MeeGo for the N900
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Vinh is offline Vinh
2010-05-26 , 08:18
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#270
Originally Posted by qgil View Post
Let's put the right context on this comment:

- Your PC is x86 but here we deal with ARM architecture. Long term support for ARM based products is a different topic.

- PCs currently sold still offer more or less the same user experience than your old PC based on a regular screen, keyboard and mouse.

- Did you buy that PC with openSuse or with Windows something inside? The question is: are you getting official updates from the vendor you got the PC or the OS from?

- If you got that PC with Windows and now you are relying on a free Linux distro, then the equivalent is to rely on plain open source MeeGo.
I would contend that the N770 has the same /base/ user experience as the N800, N810 and N900, though much slower. OS 2007 and OS 2008 did get backported, though not in an official manner, so they were left in a broken, "use at your own risk", state. The remaining community didn't have the expertise to follow-up, nor could they with the closed portions of the OS. The ports proved that the N770 was just as capable at running the OS.

As for my PC...

I bought the PC "blank"; that is, it was assembled from newly purchased parts. The first OS I installed on it was RedHat 5.0, mainly because it came in shrinkwrap form. When RedHat stopped shrinkwrap, I switched to SuSE shrinkwrap. I didn't have the bandwidth with a 56K modem to download a whole distro DVD. These days, I do.

I would say my user experience on the same /old/ hardware has improved quite a bit from RedHat 5.0 to openSuSE 11.2, even though I'm essentially still using a regular screen, keyboard and mouse.

I suppose my upgrade mentality comes from expectations of open source on a PC. I bought the N770 with the same ideas of open source on an internet tablet.