The what? Maemo has been deviated from upgrading from 5 to 6, .deb, to a new monster, half-transitioned to RPM, half melded with Moblin, half chicken half squirrel.

It takes more work to meld M5 to MeeGo ALPHA than it takes to make M6.

They are renaming constants. Because, you know, this is the kind of stuff you need to get out of your way before releasing an OS.

M5 never exited Alpha, kid. Not will it ever. And if MeeGo will exit Alpha, or even Beta, it will be way, way after the device you own or buy with MeeGo 1.0 will die of shame.

It's incredibly easy to fix a broken gene. The problem is, the whole system must survive the transition. Humans aren't an extraordinary thing because we eat and go to the bathroom, but because all the stages we went through from cell to now are all viable life forms.

As well, if MeeGo will (would?) be great in 10 years matters not if it dies of a childhood disease. All mutations up to final must live, and if it can't digest users until it's 5.0, it will die of starvation.

And that's a problem. The rate at which the OS is ported down, simplified, or built from the ground up is slower than how hardware progresses. I don't want an OS built for underpowered devices. I want an OS that can scale UP.

An OS that can run in low animation mode and in slide-everything mode. If you build it to eat half the power others eat, by the time of your adoption you'll be ugly and simplistic.

Portable tablets gain in power like nuts.
2005, 250 MHz, N770
2007, 330 MHz, N800
2007+, 400 MHz, N810
2009, 600 MHz, N900
2010, 1000 MHz, IPhone 4

Tell me, how long before an OS that moves fine on a device becomes too small?

I want an OS with potential. You know, until x86 hits.

Which is to say, Windows 7 is potentially the best OS out there, too. They all are. Potentially best gives me no new info, and ads no new trust not hope.

I'm not pointing this at you, just saying that optimism is better when has a base to it. No OS ever developed by Nokia ever fully matured. Partly because by the time they mature the hardware passed it by (Symbian) or they never mature by design (Maemo).